Winning the AI Race

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Facebook parent Meta invested $14.3 billion in AI startup Scale AI and hired its CEO and co-founder Alexandr Wang.  They are spending billions to grab the lead in the AI race, building out the data centers needed to develop and power high-end large language models. 

It's clear Meta wants to win the AI race.  Is that likely to happen up against Sam Altman and his OpenAI?

Read on to learn more about the AI race.

No More Third-Party Fact-Checking Organizations for Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced today, 1/7/25 that the social media company, which owns Facebook and Instagram, would stop working with third-party fact-checking organizations.  Repeating talking points long used by President-elect Donald Trump and his allies, in a video Zuckerberg said the company's content moderation approach resulted too often in "censorship".

Well we can kiss censorship goodbye folks.  Anything goes now.  We are prioritizing free speech - any speech.  

Leverage Social Media to Go Global

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Small and medium sized businesses around the world are leveraging social media and digital tools as a way to connect with their customers worldwide, according to a new survey from Ipsos. 

The online survey focused on how these businesses use digital tools, such as personalized online advertising, to carry out their business operations. This survey was conducted in 43 markets for Meta (“Facebook”) by Ipsos, interviewing more than 37,000 people ages 18+, who are founders, owners, senior executives, or senior managers of small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) in June and July of 2022.

Read more to discover how almost half of all small and medium sized businesses globally plan to extend their reach online.

Climate Denial

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A new report released Wednesday from the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) finds that Facebook's – rebranded as Meta – platform only labeled about half of the posts promoting articles from the world's leading publishers of climate denial. 

Facebook is falling short on its pledge to crack down on climate misinformation, according to a new analysis from a watchdog group.

They had promised last May that it would attach "informational labels" to certain posts about climate change in the U.S. and some other countries, directing readers to a "Climate Science Information Center" with reliable information and resources.

Learn more about what Meta is failing to do.