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This week, Meta announced a series of content moderation changes that will transform how the social media company's platforms address misinformation and hate speech. We break down what these changes will mean for users and why the company appears to be bowing to right-wing arguments about censorship. Then, we'll explain why 2025 is already shaping up to be a big year in ai: with models like OpenAI's o3, Google's Gemini 2.0, and China's DeepSeek sparking the debate that superintelligence is near. And lastly, we played a round of HatGPT.
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Credits
“Hard Fork” is hosted by Kevin Roose and Casey Newton and produced by Whitney Jones and Raquel Cohn. This episode was edited by Dry Rachel. Our executive producer is just support. Engineering by Chris Wood and original music Daniel Powell, Elisheba Ittoop, marion lozano, Sofia Lanman and Rowan Niemisto. Fact verification by caitlin love.
special thanks to Paula Szuchman, Chicken wings tamDalia Haddad and Jeffrey Miranda.