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The Week That Was: IT and Media news week 2

Disinformation is again a global media focus after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement that his social media like Facebook, Instagram and Threads will start replacing its third-party fact checking in the US with a crowdsourced fact checking. This means that, a couple of weeks prior to Donald Trump’s return to the White House, Meta is downgrading its fact checking to a level similar to how X has done under the ownership of Trump ally Elon Musk.  Trump has acknowledged that the decision was “probably” related to threats he had made again

Technology-related jobs are the fastest- growing. This includes Big Data Specialists, Fintech Engineers, AI and Machine Learning Specialists and Software and Application Developers, according to World Economic Forum’s The Future of Jobs Report 2025. Green and energy transition roles, including Autonomous and Electric Vehicle Specialists, Environmental Engineers, and Renewable Energy Engineers are also among the top fastest-growing roles.

With consumer expectations moving at a rapid pace, embracing change while staying true to core journalistic values will be the key balancing trick for news media during the year ahead. Changes to search will become a major grievance for a news industry that has already lost social traffic and fears a further decline in visibility as AI interfaces start to generate ‘story like’ answers to news queries, Reuters Institute says in a trend report for 2025. 

 

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