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In a letter to the US Congress, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has alleged that the US government under Joe Biden “repeatedly pressured” Meta to censor certain content on its platforms.

In the letter addressed to US House of Representatives, Mr Zuckerberg said that the platform had to make some changes, that “with the benefit of hindsight and new information,” they won’t make today. He added that he regrets not being “more outspoken” about it.

“In 2021, senior officials from the Biden Administration, including the White House, repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor certain COVID-19 content, including humor and satire, and expressed a lot of frustration with our teams when we didn’t agree. Ultimately, it was our decision whether or not to take content down, and we own our decisions, including COVID-19-related changes we made to our enforcement in the wake of this pressure. I believe the government pressure was wrong, and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it,” the letter read.

Zuckerberg said he felt that Meta should not compromise its content standards due to pressure from any Administration. “We’re ready to push back if something like this happens again,” he said.

The Meta CEO also spoke of a FBI warning about a “potential Russian disinformation operation about the Biden family and Burisma in the lead up to the 2020 election.”

“That fall, when we saw a New York Post story reporting on corruption allegations involving then-Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s family, we sent that story to fact-checkers for review and temporarily demoted it while waiting for a reply. It’s since been made clear that the reporting was not Russian disinformation, and in retrospect, we shouldn’t have demoted the story. We’ve changed our policies and processes to make sure this doesn’t happen again for instance, we no longer temporarily demote things in the US while waiting for fact-checkers,” he said.

Mr Zuckerberg reiterated his support for the electoral infrastructure ahead of the presidential elections in November. He spoke of he made to strengthen the infrastructure in a non-partisan way. “I know that some people believe this work benefited one party over the other. My goal is to be neutral and not play a role one way or another or to even appear to be playing a role. So I don’t plan on making a similar contribution this cycle,” he said.

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INDIA Writes To Facebook, Google Chiefs, Demands Neutrality During Polls https://artifexnews.net/india-writes-to-facebook-google-chiefs-demands-neutrality-during-polls-4476287rand29/ Thu, 12 Oct 2023 17:31:13 +0000 https://artifexnews.net/india-writes-to-facebook-google-chiefs-demands-neutrality-during-polls-4476287rand29/ Read More “INDIA Writes To Facebook, Google Chiefs, Demands Neutrality During Polls” »

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New Delhi:

The Opposition INDIA bloc has written to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Google CEO Sundar Pichai over their social media platforms’ alleged role in “aiding communal hatred” in the country and demanded that the platforms maintain neutrality in the upcoming elections.

The letters came after the Washington Post newspaper flagged alleged bias of Facebook, WhatsApp and YouTube towards the ruling BJP and the Narendra Modi dispensation.

Sharing the letter to Zuckerberg on X, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge said, “Letter by INDIA parties to Facebook’s Mr. Mark Zuckerberg (@finkd) citing the exhaustive investigations by the Washington Post that Meta is culpable of abetting social disharmony and inciting communal hatred in India”.

“INDIA parties also write to Google’s Mr. Sundar Pichai on exhaustive investigation by the Washington Post that Alphabet and specifically YouTube is culpable of abetting social disharmony and inciting communal hatred in India,” he said in another post while sharing the letter to Mr Pichai.

In the letter to Mr Zuckerberg, the Opposition parties have said the India National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) is an alliance of 28 political parties in India that represent the combined opposition coalition and are the ruling alliance in 11 states and represent nearly half of all Indian voters.

“You may be aware of the recent exposes by the Washington Post newspaper about the role of WhatsApp and Facebook in aiding the communal hatred campaign of the ruling BJP. Specifically, the article cites details of how this vile, communally divisive propaganda is carried out using WhatsApp groups by BJP members and supporters.

“In another article titled ‘Under India’s pressure, Facebook let propaganda and hate speech thrive’, the Post has elucidated with evidence the blatant partisanship by Facebook India executives towards the ruling dispensation. This was well known to us in the Opposition for a long time and have even raised it several times in the past,” the INDIA bloc parties said.

“It is very clear from these exhaustive investigations by the Washington Post that Meta is culpable of abetting social disharmony and inciting communal hatred in India. Further, we have data that shows algorithmic moderation and suppression of Opposition leaders’ content on your platform while also promoting ruling party content,” they said in the letter sent by AICC general secretary organisation KC Venugopal.

The Opposition bloc demanded that Meta’s operations in India remain neutral.

“Such blatant partisanship and bias towards one political formation by a private foreign company is tantamount to interfering in India’s democracy, one that we in the INDIA alliance will not take lightly,” the letter further said.

“In light of the upcoming national elections in 2024, it is our earnest and urgent plea to you to consider these facts seriously and ensure immediately that Meta’s operations in India remain neutral and are not used wittingly or unwittingly to cause social unrest or distort India’s much cherished democratic ideals,” it stated.

The Opposition said it was ironic that the parties had to write the letter in the birth anniversary month of Mahatma Gandhi, the greatest champion of non-violence and social harmony in history.

The parties expressed confidence that Zuckerberg and Meta also yearn for a harmonious India that the Mahatma wished for.

In their letter to Google’s Sundar Pichai, they said the recent expose by the Washington Post titled “He live-streamed his attacks on Indian Muslims. YouTube gave him an award” about the role of YouTube in propagating communal hatred and dividing Indian society.

“Specifically, the article cites details of how this vile, communally divisive propaganda is carried out using YouTube by BJP members and supporters.

“It is very clear from this exhaustive investigation by the Washington Post that Alphabet and specifically YouTube is culpable of abetting social disharmony and inciting communal hatred in India.

“Further, we have data that shows algorithmic moderation and suppression of Opposition leaders’ content on your platform while also promoting ruling party content,” they said.

The INDIA parties also urged Google that its platforms operating in India remain neutral and are not used to cause social unrest or distort India’s much cherished democratic ideals, especially during the upcoming elections.

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Mark Zuckerberg Get 2 Black Eyes After Jiu-Jitsu Training, Shares Selfie https://artifexnews.net/mark-zuckerberg-get-2-black-eyes-after-jiu-jitsu-training-sharesselfie-4444460/ Tue, 03 Oct 2023 04:48:51 +0000 https://artifexnews.net/mark-zuckerberg-get-2-black-eyes-after-jiu-jitsu-training-sharesselfie-4444460/ Read More “Mark Zuckerberg Get 2 Black Eyes After Jiu-Jitsu Training, Shares Selfie” »

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The billionaire trains with coach Dave Camarillo.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared a selfie on his Instagram sporting two black eyes he sustained during jiu-jitsu training. The 39-year-old billionaire along with a selfie wrote, “Sparring got a little out of hand. May need to update my avatar.”

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Since being posted, the post has received over 4 lakh likes on Instagram and a barrage of comments. A user wrote, “Nooooo who did this to you!”

Another user wrote, “How does the other guy look Mark?”

“Might need to keep your hands up Mark,” the third user wrote.

Last year, the Meta CEO in an interview with Joe Rogan shared that he tries to do at least two hours of daily physical activity because he wakes up in the morning to a million messages. He shared that he began training in martial arts form during covid-19 pandemic. He said that the sport gave him an energy boost. 

“MMA is the perfect thing,” Mr. Zuckerberg added, “After an hour or two of working out, or rolling or wrestling with friends, or training with different folks, it’s like now I’m ready to go solve whatever problem at work for the day.”

The billionaire trains with coach Dave Camarillo. 

Meanwhile, Mr Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan recently announced their plans to help eradicate human diseases by 2100. In a statement, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) – Zuckerberg and Chan’s foundation –  announced that they aim to develop a computing system that researchers can use with artificial intelligence (AI) to catalogue cells and predict how they act when diseased. The data could be used to make groundbreaking new discoveries that could help cure, prevent, or manage all diseases by the end of this century, the foundation said.

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Mark Zuckerberg, Priscilla Chan Announce Plans To Tackle All Human Disease By 2100 https://artifexnews.net/mark-zuckerberg-priscilla-chan-announce-plans-to-tackle-all-human-disease-by-2100-4423816/ Tue, 26 Sep 2023 03:40:34 +0000 https://artifexnews.net/mark-zuckerberg-priscilla-chan-announce-plans-to-tackle-all-human-disease-by-2100-4423816/ Read More “Mark Zuckerberg, Priscilla Chan Announce Plans To Tackle All Human Disease By 2100” »

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Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan founded the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI).

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan recently announced their plans to help eradicate human diseases by 2100. In a statement, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) – Zuckerberg and Chan’s foundation –  announced that they aim to develop a computing system that researchers can use with artificial intelligence (AI) to catalogue cells and predict how they act when diseased. The data could be used to make groundbreaking new discoveries that could help cure, prevent, or manage all diseases by the end of this century, the foundation said. 

“AI is creating new opportunities in biomedicine, and building a high-performance computing cluster dedicated to life science research will accelerate progress on important scientific questions about how our cells work,” said CZI Co-founder and Co-CEO Mark Zuckerberg. 

“Developing digital models capable of predicting all cell types and cell states from the genome will help researchers better understand our cells and how they behave in health and disease,” he added. 

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According to the press note, CZI’s aim is to give researchers access to generative AI to study healthy and diseased cells. Using predictive models of human cells can help researchers better understand how the body responds to diseases or new medicines, the company said, adding that it is like running a “virtual cell” through different simulations to see what might happen. 

“AI models could predict how an immune cell responds to an infection, what happens at the cellular level when a child is born with a rare disease, or even how a patient’s body will respond to a new medication,” Priscilla Chan said. 

“We hope that this collaborative effort will generate new insights about the fundamental characteristics of our cells,” she added. 

The foundation explained that the new system will be trained on datasets from the software tool CZ Cell x Gene, as well as resources from the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Network and Chan Zuckerberg Institute for Advanced Biological Imaging, and publicly available data. Once completed, the computing system is expected to be one of the biggest AI clusters used for non-profit research. 

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Mark Zuckerberg Trains With UFC Champions On Speedboat https://artifexnews.net/watch-mark-zuckerberg-trains-with-ufc-champions-on-speedboat-4365747/ Wed, 06 Sep 2023 13:45:42 +0000 https://artifexnews.net/watch-mark-zuckerberg-trains-with-ufc-champions-on-speedboat-4365747/ Read More “Mark Zuckerberg Trains With UFC Champions On Speedboat” »

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The video has accumulated more than 186,000 likes and over 3.8 million views

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg once again trained with UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship) champions this week, but this time on a speedboat. 

Mr Zuckerberg, a passionate UFC enthusiast with a diverse martial arts background, joined the competitors on the mat back in July. Now, the 39-year-old billionaire shared an exhilarating video of himself training with Israel Adesanya and Alexander Volkanovsk on a speedboat. 

“Summer Vibes,” he captioned the video, which is cut in the style of a movie trailer. 

Watch the clip below: 

In the short video, Mr Zuckerberg is seen performing a single-leg takedown on Mr Volkanovski. Mr Adesanya, on the other hand, is seen performing professional wrestling moves on others on the boat. The clip also features audio and music from the newest ‘Mission Impossible’ film. 

Since being shared, the video has accumulated more than 186,000 likes and over 3.8 million views. In the comment section, one user wrote, “This is epic”. Another added, “Look so fun! Betting on @Zuck for sure”. 

“That was so epic!! One of the best days ever,” commented a third user. “This is awesome,” said fourth. 

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Meanwhile, this comes amid rumours that the Meta CEO will fight Twitter boss Elon Musk. This week, Mr Musk even challenged Mr Zuckerberg for a cage fight yet again. 

The tech leaders first sparked conversations about a potential MMA-style cage match in a series of back-and-forth messages on their platforms in June. However, Mr Musk later said he was joking about the entire thing. But on Wednesday, Mr Musk again accused Mr Zuckerberg of avoiding the clash. 

“Why won’t he fight me!? Zuck said “name the place”, so I named his house, but they said he was away on travel. Perhaps we can fight when we returns?” Mr Musk said responding to a post on X. 

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“Why Won’t He Fight Me?” Elon Musk’s Latest Jibe At Zuckerberg https://artifexnews.net/why-wont-he-fight-me-elon-musks-latest-jibe-at-zuckerberg-4363908/ Wed, 06 Sep 2023 06:20:31 +0000 https://artifexnews.net/why-wont-he-fight-me-elon-musks-latest-jibe-at-zuckerberg-4363908/ Read More ““Why Won’t He Fight Me?” Elon Musk’s Latest Jibe At Zuckerberg” »

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Social media has been abuzz with AI pics of cage fight between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg.

Billionaire Elon Musk has again challenged Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg for a cage fight, accusing him of avoiding the clash. Mr Musk was responding to a post on X (formerly Twitter), the platform he owns. In his response, the world’s richest man accused Mr Zuckerberg of apparently not accepting the challenge. The tech leaders first sparked conversations about a potential MMA-style cage match in a series of back-and-forth messages on their platforms in June. However, Mr Musk later said he was joking about the entire thing.

But now, the X owner is back with a new post on the cage fight issue.

A user had said that searching on Google for Mark Zuckerberg these days throws more UFC content than his actual podcasts.

“Why won’t he fight me!? Zuck said “name the place”, so I named his house, but they said he was away on travel. Perhaps we can fight when we returns?” Mr Musk said in response.

The post has been viewed more than 26,000 times and sparked a buzz among the users of the platform.

“You got him,” commented one user. “Is there a way to resolve this issue without violence? Perhaps you could talk to him or his representatives and see if you can come to an agreement,” said another.

“Zuck said that he don’t want to have a “friendly” match in his backyard. He wants to be serious,” a third user commented.

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The tech titans started creating buzz about the cage fight just before Meta announced a rival to Twitter.

The two men have clashed for years but a recent comment by a Meta executive suggesting that Twitter was not run “sanely” irked Mr Musk, eventually leading to the two men offering each other out for a cage fight.

The buzz has its genesis in the announcement made by Mr Zuckerberg in February about ‘Threads’ with “increased authenticity” and “security across services” – both digs at Twitter Blue.

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