Getty Images | NurPhoto reader comments 197 with 0 posters participating Share this story Elon Musk said in November that Twitter’s top priority is eliminating content that sexually exploits children. But Twitter apparently didn’t take action against a series of hashtags and keywords used to promote the sale of child sex abuse material (CSAM) until ..
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Getty Images | Matt Anderson Photography reader comments 59 with 0 posters participating Share this story Nevada’s US senators say the Federal Communications Commission’s new, more detailed broadband maps have tens of thousands of mistakes in their state alone. “Nevada’s Office of Science, Innovation, & Technology (OSIT) has found over 20,000 purported broadband-serviceable locations on ..
Getty Images | Daniel Garrido reader comments 67 with 0 posters participating Share this story The Federal Aviation Administration will give airlines another year to fix or replace airplane altimeters that can’t filter out cellular transmissions from outside their allotted frequencies. In a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) released today, the FAA proposed a deadline ..
Getty Images | Elva Etienne reader comments 137 with 0 posters participating Share this story A lawsuit filed by Seattle Public Schools alleges that social media is one of the main causes of “a youth mental health crisis” and blames social media companies for “exploit[ing] the neurophysiology” of kids’ brains. Arguing that social media companies ..
reader comments 177 with 0 posters participating Share this story Twitter CEO Elon Musk continues to deal with intense scrutiny of how his social media platform will fight disinformation with its reduced staff. Early in 2023, Musk met with Germany’s digital minister, Volker Wissing, in California to discuss whether Twitter would “voluntarily comply” with an ..
reader comments 81 with 0 posters participating Share this story On July 19, 2022, the UK experienced a taste of the weather to come. Temperatures reached 40.3° Celsius—soaring past the previous record by more than one-and-a-half degrees. Dozens of homes in east London were destroyed by fires, while elsewhere in the country, the heat pushed ..
reader comments 84 with 0 posters participating Share this story Whistleblowers have alleged that the Saudi Arabian government infiltrated the highest ranks of Wikipedia in order to control information about the country, activists reported yesterday. The alleged infiltration resulted in the 2020 arrests in Saudi Arabia of two Wikipedia administrators—Ziyad al-Sofiani (jailed for up to ..
reader comments 19 with 0 posters participating Share this story To ring in the new year, WhatsApp introduced a new feature to help people circumvent government-imposed Internet shutdowns that the United Nations said last summer work to undermine human rights. “To help, today we’re launching proxy support for WhatsApp users all over the world,” WhatsApp’s statement ..
Enlarge / Lina Khan at a Senate confirmation hearing in April 2021, before she was confirmed as chair of the FTC. Getty Images | Pool reader comments 114 with 0 posters participating Share this story The Federal Trade Commission today proposed a rule that would prohibit employers from imposing noncompete clauses on workers, arguing that ..
reader comments 41 with 0 posters participating Share this story For four years, Meta has been battling European Union regulators over how its apps, Facebook and Instagram, collect user data to personalize ads. The key question for regulators was whether Meta’s so-called contract legal basis—which lumps the user consent agreement into its apps’ terms of ..
