Inside Meta’s Oversight Board after two years: $150M funding through 2025, ~2M appeals, 28 rulings, and 119 recommendations, as it begins to win over critics (Steven Levy/Wired)

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
YouTube announces “handles”, letting creators identify their channel using the @username format across channel pages, video descriptions, comments, and Shorts  —  YouTube is making it easier for creators to direct viewers to their channels.  The company today announced “handles …

Adi Robertson / The Verge:
Meta’s Oversight Board releases an in-depth report on the controversial cross-check moderation system, calling for “radically” more transparency  —  Meta’s Oversight Board has released an in-depth report on Facebook and Instagram’s controversial cross-check system …

Chavi Mehta / Reuters:
Meta’s Oversight Board says it can make binding decisions to apply a warning screen when “leaving up or restoring qualifying content”, starting this month  —  Meta Platforms Inc’s (META.O) independent oversight board said on Thursday that starting this month it can decide …

Adi Robertson / The Verge:
Meta’s Oversight Board says the company should be more careful with automated moderation and criticizes removing a cartoon depicting police violence in Colombia  —  Meta’s Oversight Board says the company should be more careful with automated moderation tools, criticizing it for removing a cartoon depicting police violence in Colombia.

Joe Schneider / Bloomberg:
A US federal appeals court upholds the Texas social media content moderation law, lifting an injunction that blocked it and remanding it back to the lower court  —  A federal appeals court upheld the validity of a Texas social-media law that companies like Twitter Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc …

Meta:
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta plans to lay off 13% of its staff, or 11,000+ employees, and will cut discretionary spending and extend its hiring freeze through Q1  —  Mark Zuckerberg just shared the following with Meta employees:  —  Today I’m sharing some of the most difficult changes we’ve made in Meta’s history.