Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says senior Biden administration officials pressured Facebook to “censor” some COVID-19 content during the pandemic and vowed the social media giant would push back if it faced such demands again. In a letter to Rep. Jim Jordan, the Republican chair of the judiciary committee of the House of Representatives, Zuckerberg alleges … Read more
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told a U.S. congressional committee that senior Biden administration officials pressured the company to censor certain COVID-19 content during the pandemic, and that the company made choices it would not make today. The House Judiciary Committee released Zuckerberg’s letter Monday. Zuckerberg wrote that the censored content included humor and satire, and … Read more
Meta Platforms is deploying a new home-grown chip to help power its artificial intelligence (AI) services, aiming to decrease its reliance on semiconductors from Nvidia and other outside companies. The chip, announced Wednesday, is the latest version of the Meta Training and Inference Accelerator, or MTIA, which helps rank and recommend content across Facebook and … Read more
