News Round-Up
2 June 2025
Hamit Coskun Convicted After Burning Koran in Public
2 June 2025
by Will Jones
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative – Mark Zuckerberg's multibillion-dollar charity – has scrapped its diversity team and cancelled funding for projects promoting inclusivity as the Great Unwokening gains pace.
Depending on which echo chamber you get your news from, this week Mark Zuckerberg took steps to either save democracy or to end it. But how far is he really going in his new commitment to free speech, asks Rebekah Barnett.
Mark Zuckerberg's repudiation of Covid-era censorship is welcome. But it's not enough, say Josh Stylman and Jeffrey Tucker. Without a public reckoning they will just do it all again when a cause seems urgent enough.
An inept 'fact check' by Meta partner Science Feedback has shone further light on the U.K. Met Office's junk and fabricated temperature measurements, says Chris Morrison. The 'defence' only digs the hole deeper.
The Big Tech companies are setting up AI data centres that will consume vast amounts of electricity – OpenAI alone wants to create seven that will consume more electricity per year than the UK. So much for Net Zero.
Meta's new social media app and Twitter rival, Threads, promises a kinder, sanitised experience. But at what cost?
Professor David Livermore has responded to Meta’s Oversight Board which has requested feedback on Facebook’s misinformation policy. He thinks the only items that should be flagged misinformation are egregious nonsense.
The Daily Sceptic has submitted a response to Meta’s request for public feedback about its COVID-19 misinformation policy. Tl;dr: the best remedy for bad speech is more speech, not enforced silence.
Facebook is asking the public to comment on its COVID-19 ‘misinformation’ policy, i.e., when to censor content that runs counter to the official pandemic narrative. For details of how to respond, click below.
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