meta is scrapping fact checking on facebook and instagram, two of the worlds largest social media platforms. microsoft announces a multimillion dollar ai investment in india. we will be live there with the latest. hello and welcome. meta will end third—party fact checking

on its social media platforms in the us. the company will move to a community note system and move to a community notes system similar to one elon musk�*s platform x uses. restrictions on contentious topics like gender identity will also end. ceo mark zuckerberg says this will promote freedom of speech which she hopes to prioritise overtaking misinformation. we built a lot of complex systems to moderate content. but the problem with complex systems is, they make mistakes. even if they accidentally censorjusti percent of posts, that's millions of people. and we have reached a point where it's just too many mistakes and too much censorship. the move comes as he and other tech

executives have tried to improve relations with donald trump before he takes office and a day after facebook announced a trump ally dana white will be on the board. donald trump and his allies have previously criticised meta for its the fact checking policy calling a criticism of right—wing voices. donald trump cheered the move saying meta has come a long way. there is a warning the platform could become even more of a cesspool of misinformation. the changes only apply to the us. there is no plan to apply it to the eu which is subject to ask the company to combat misinformation. the ceo said the decision to

scale back content moderation was exciting. our north america technology correspondent has been on the ground in las vegas keeping up—to—date with the latest technological inventions and managed a doorstop. it has been sensory overload on the first official day of the event here, ces, and we have seen the introduction of new tv screens that promise to be bigger and better, the introduction of new accessories for gamers and companies continue to slap the label of al on just about everything you can think of but the big news on this tuesday has been an appearance by linda yackareno, the ceo of the social media platform x which is owned by elon musk. musk has been accused of spreading disinformation on the platform, especially as it pertains to european politics, to uk politics. we asked her about this backstage and here is

how it went. excuse me, linda, sorry to interrupt. i am with the bbc in the uk... hang on a minute. i am in a meeting. i am sorry. whether elon musk is undermining it? is undermining democracy in the uk. elon musk has levelled accusations against uk prime ministers sir keir starmer having to do with his record prosecuting child sex abuse cases. sue �*s time has pushed back and said the online discourse has crossed a line. she defended the commentary of elon musk saying it was courageous. social media networks have traditionally operated as silos managed by large technology firms but a new technology may soon enable users to communicate across social media platforms independent from one another. meta's threads and a social network aggregator recentlyjoined, but will it gain mainstream appeal?

we arejoined by the chief executive of flipboard, who serves on the board it gives everybody access to a lot more people who may be were not using it before. people that were currently on threads or who were on blue sky, giving everybody a place where they can all connect regardless of the applications they are using. as we seen in reporting the promise of social media and how content moderation is the barriers of that are coming down as we were reporting, one promise is to reduce censorship which opens the doors for all sorts of potentially harmful content. how does flipboard walk that line between maintaining a free space to exchange views and the propagation of perhaps false news or dangerous content? what is powerful about the broader social web which is the part

of the web that uses these open protocols, activity hub, which is popular and can connect people on the web, and what this allows is for lots of approaches to moderation to happen and for people to do moderation at scale, large... across large applications as well as for themselves orfor groups of people or even within feeds. you can think of it like the difference between a town square where it is basically impossible to moderate everyone in the town square where you have millions of people versus being in a cafe or a small restaurant and talking to people you want to talk to. what the social web does is it allows the smaller forms to come together with all sorts of different approaches to moderation and gives people choice.

how do you think donald trump will have an impact on social media platforms and moderation. given elon musk as his right—hand guy on social networking and with his ownership of exit will be very favourable to the world of social media. that said i do worry about the potential for regular tory things that could happen, that could favour x and disadvantage the more open platforms. hopefully we will not see that happen i would say one of the things that has been great as a lot of people have been on x had been searching for more open opportunities that open platforms, specifically because they do not want to get trapped in one specific platform, that they don't agree with the moderation policies. don't agree with the moderation olicies. ,,. , don't agree with the moderation olicies. , ., ., , policies. safety regulators have open _ policies. safety regulators have open a _ policies. safety regulators have open a new - policies. safety regulators have open a new probe i policies. safety regulators. have open a new probe into tesla vehicles, the investigation focused on a feature which allows users to move cars remotely, official saying they started the

investigation following for crashes involving the feature with a vehicle failed to detect posts or other parked vehicles. the company is facing other investigation around its wider autopilot features which have caused accident, some fatal. shares of nvidia fell 6% on wall street, investors underwhelmed with the company �*s announcement at the tech trade show ces unveiled a new generation of gaming chips. the slide lead to a sell—off in the tech sector with tesla and metre closing in the red bull. microsoft has pledged $3 billion to develop the countries cloud and ai infrastructure over the next two in india. more on this from our correspondence live in new delhi, what details do you have about microsoft and its plans? steve, these are announcements made by the chairman and ceo in

the it centre city of bangka roo yesterday that was preceded by a highly publicised metre with the prime list are talking about more cooperation in the field of ai and soon after that we heard a lot of these announcements. as pointed out this multibillion—dollar investment over a period of two years will prioritise training skilled professionals in the field of ai and also develops several data centres. this is very significant because it ties in with the microsoft overall plan and pitch to invest over $80 billion in al and it ties in with india's grand ambitions of taking big strides in the ai space. what microsoft is aiming to do according to this statement, train about 10 million indian professionals by 2030 and develop those data centres. what is also significant — the acknowledgement we heard from the ceo about the kind of contribution indian tech professionals have made especially and some of the

generated ai platforms like get hubbert pilot programme saying indian developers with the second largest community after the us. what is important for microsoft to to capitalise on a market like india to give returns on the speak efficient ai planet has been announcing itself. he has been projecting itself. he has been projecting itself has been rejecting itself has been rejecting itself is a big market that is why nvidia has been to india to discuss further plans of investment in this field. it certainly is hotting up in the ai space for india. getty images has announced it will merge with rival shutterstock to create a multibillion—dollar content company, in a statement the firm said they had complimentary portfolios in a merger would offer customers a greater range of still and moving images as well as music and 3d pictures. it added combining resources would help

them invest in innovation such as using artificial intelligence and the deal is valued at around $3.7 billion. that's it for this additional business today. thank you for watching, back at the top of the hour with newsday. in the meantime, sports is next.

hey, it's lucy with the catch—up. tonight allegations against mcdonald's, meta makes changes and a well—earned retirement. first tonight, a 14—year—old boy has been stabbed to death on a bus in southeast london. he was killed this afternoon. no arrests have been made. that story is on the bbc news website. mcdonald's workers have said they are still facing harassment and sexual abuse.

a year ago the boss promise to clean ahead at the company. matt used to work in mcdonald's. he said he quit because of a toxic work environment. for me it was being bullied for having a learning disability, having a problem with my eye. the boss in the uk said 29 people have been dismissed over sexual harassment allegations in the past 12 months and in the alleged cases published today were unacceptable. some other stories now. meta is getting rid of independent fact checkers on facebook and instagram. commenting on the accuracy of posts will be left to users. mark zuckerberg said third—party moderators were too politically biased but campaigners say the move is motivated by getting on the right side of donald trump. and a police dog who survived a brutal attack has retired after six years of work. five years ago starc was hit with a machete while working. he won a bravery

award and now he's retiring with a policeman who has been his handler for his whole career. and now ten seconds of some very cute animals do not seem to mind the cold weather. please enjoy these super cute videos of the pandas at a zoo in washington playing in the snow. hello and welcome to sportsday. i'm gavin ramjaun. newcastle strike first in the english league cup. they stun arsenal at the emirates with isak again on the scoresheet. a new era begins — former rivals andy murray and novak djokovic take to the australian open, with murray in his new role as coach. and we'll hear from great britain's victorious four—man

bobsleigh team following their world cup win at the weekend. hello there and welcome along to the programme. and it appears that newcastle have arsenal's number this season.