Bytes: Week in Review — Meta’s users take over fact checks, YouTubers sue PayPal and highlights from CES

Marketplace Tech

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🗓️ 10 January 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

CES wraps up in Las Vegas this week. That’s the annual convention where some of the most cutting-edge consumer tech is unveiled. And while we still don’t have a prototype for Rosey, the housecleaning robot from “The Jetsons,” we’ll get into some of the big robot reveals for today’s Marketplace “Tech Bytes: Week in Review.” Plus, YouTubers are taking PayPal to court. A class-action suit alleges that the payments company is messing with their commissions on affiliate links. But first, Meta made big changes to its content moderation policy this week. Facebook’s parent company said it’s cutting ties with third-party fact checkers and switching to a community notes system like the one X uses. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Joanna Stern, senior personal technology columnist at The Wall Street Journal, about her takeaways from the announcement.

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0:00.0	The robots are coming.
0:03.3	From American Public Media, this is Marketplace Tech.
0:06.4	I'm Megan McCarty Carino.
0:17.4	CES wraps up in Las Vegas this week,
0:20.4	the annual convention where some of the most
0:22.3	cutting-edge new consumer tech is unveiled. And while we still don't have a prototype for
0:28.1	Rosie the House Cleaning Robot from the Jetsons, we'll get into some of the big robot
0:32.7	reveals for today's Marketplace Techbytes week in review. Plus, why YouTubers are taking PayPal to court.
0:41.3	A class action suit alleges the payment company
0:43.7	is messing with their commissions on affiliate links.
0:47.7	But first, Meta made some big changes to content moderation policy this week.
0:53.5	Facebook's parent company announced its cutting ties with third-party fact-checkers and
0:58.7	switching to a community notes system like X.
1:02.4	We spoke with Joanna Stern, senior personal technology columnist at the Wall Street Journal,
1:07.5	about her takeaway from the announcement.
1:10.1	I think the biggest thing for me is obviously the alignment that we're seeing between
1:13.7	meta and X. And obviously, these are two huge competitors, but also we are seeing a lot
1:20.6	of happening in tech. And if you guys have covered this on the show in the last couple of weeks,
1:23.8	but happening in tech of these big tech companies, trying to make sure they are
1:28.0	cozy with the new administration, making sure they are set up to have the best success under this
1:32.7	new administration. And it's a power grab. What I usually always do with tech is look at what's
1:37.0	going to happen for users. What are they going to be experiencing? I think the experience is probably
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