reader comments 49 with 37 posters participating Share this story China’s ability to influence American politics by manipulating social media platforms has been a topic of much scrutiny ahead of the midterm elections, and this week has marked some progress toward mitigating risks on some of the most popular US platforms. US President Joe Biden ..
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reader comments 42 with 37 posters participating Share this story After Apple updated its privacy rules in 2021 to easily allow iOS users to opt out of all tracking by third-party apps, so many people opted out that the Electronic Frontier Foundation reported that Meta lost $10 billion in revenue over the next year. Meta’s ..
Il Garante per la privacy ha inviato a Facebook Italia (Meta) una richiesta urgente di chiarimenti in relazione alle attività intraprese dal social network riguardo alle prossime elezioni per il rinnovo del Parlamento italiano. Meta, la società che gestisce Facebook, ha infatti pubblicamente annunciato di aver avviato una campagna informativa pubblicando promemoria. La campagna, indirizzata ..
Enlarge / Writer-director Joshua Newton and actor Roy Scheider. reader comments 101 with 83 posters participating Share this story This September, British filmmaker Joshua Newton prepared to rerelease his 2009 film Beautiful Blue Eyes. The 2022 premiere was important to Newton, as he’d waited more than a decade to finally share with the world a ..
reader comments 65 with 54 posters participating Share this story Several years after Facebook-owner Meta acquired WhatsApp and Instagram, the Federal Trade Commission launched an antitrust lawsuit that claimed that through these acquisitions, Meta had become a monopoly. A titan wielding enormous fortune over smaller companies, the FTC said Meta began buying or burying competitors ..
reader comments 142 with 94 posters participating Share this story Both Google and Meta have taken steps to start paying US publishers for aggregating their news content, but neither tech giant has yet found a perfect solution that would fairly compensate publishers and potentially help combat the mass shuttering of newsrooms across America. The Wall ..
reader comments 60 with 50 posters participating Share this story It’s been four years since users alleging harm caused by the Cambridge Analytica scandal sued Facebook (now Meta) for selling tons of easily identifying personal information to third parties, allegedly doing so even when users thought they had denied consent. In 2018, plaintiffs alleged in ..
reader comments 428 with 150 posters participating Share this story Yesterday, the anti-vaccine group the Children’s Health Defense celebrated the spread of poliovirus in New York, mocking health officials spreading awareness that polio is vaccine-preventable. Today, CHD reports that the group was also permanently banned from Facebook and Instagram yesterday. A screenshot of Meta’s notification ..
reader comments 38 with 31 posters participating Share this story As TikTok’s popularity and earnings soar, the company has decided to crack down on political content creators—sometimes with thousands of followers—who violate the app’s policies against paid political ads. TikTok says it has been aware of the problem since 2020, but it became an issue of ..
reader comments 76 with 59 posters participating Share this story (Update, 5:27 pm ET: A GIFCT spokesperson clarified how the “blacklist”—or more accurately, in its terms, its terrorist content database—works to log terrorist activity between different online platforms. She says only videos and images are currently hashed, and nothing gets automatically removed from other platforms. ..
