01/09/2025

The Internet’s Future Is Looking Bleaker by the Day

The death of fact-checking will likely hurt the end user - you and me

This is proving to be a monumental week on the tech and politics beat. On Tuesday, Meta announced that it would be ending its third-party fact-checking program on both Facebook and Instagram and cutting down its rules barring hate speech in a move clearly targeted at appeasing one person—incoming president Donald Trump.

The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) will also take up TikTok's lawsuit against the U.S. government and its attempts to ban the app nationwide. We are now less than two weeks out from the deadline for a sale or an extension, so the court doesn't have much time to save the app—if that's even what it ends up doing.

This week’s events will radically alter the future of the internet in the U.S., and probably not for the better.

Please select this link to read the complete article from WIRED.