The Latest Breaking News from Meta

Meta’s decision this week to abandon its fact-checking programme, starting from the US, has reportedly triggered alarm bells among several fact-checking organisations. That the move comes as a response to the politics of the new regime in the US has also been apparent.

From Meta's new hate speech rules to CES dropping a bunch of cool and weird tech, here's all the tech and gaming news to know this week.

Former Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger and novelist Khaled Mansour have warned that disinformation ‘can very much kill’

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Microsoft will contribute $1 million to President Trump's inauguration fund. The company joins Meta, Google, and other tech giants in contributing.

Mark Zuckerberg has had it with these people.

Tech giants follow footsteps of other major companies, including Amazon, Meta, OpenAI and Uber

The Facebook parent just made an important executive decision

ANALYSIS: The Facebook and Instagram boss has shown just how deep he’s willing to stoop for the benefit of his commercial empire — and just how little his last eight years of promises really meant, writes Io Dodds