Elon Musk’s X scored a major victory Monday against an Australian government censor who had ordered the platform to take down footage posted by users of a stabbing incident in a Sydney church. An Australian federal judge ruled against the country’s top cyber safety commissioner, blocking the official’s request to extend the injunction against X. The injunction […]
TikTok on Thursday announced it will automatically slap labels on AI-generated images and videos posted to its platform to better inform users about the content they consume. To implement the change, TikTok has adopted Content Credentials, which attach metadata to posts to help platforms identify which posts need an “AI generated” label. The change took […]
Meta will be sunsetting Facebook News in early April for users in the U.S. and Australia as the platform further deemphasizes news and politics. The feature was shut down in the U.K., France and Germany last year. Launched in 2019, the News tab curated headlines from national and international news organizations, as well as smaller, […]
Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Bernard Sanders criticized Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday for his secrecy surrounding the technology company’s content moderation and censorship of Palestinian-related content on Instagram and Facebook. In a follow-up to a December letter sent by Ms. Warren, the two lawmakers inquired about the policies the company uses to determine what […]
SAN FRANCISCO — Instagram has started an automatic clamp down on the amount of political content appearing in its users’ feeds, but there is a relatively quick and easy way to turn off the controls if you don’t want to keep the limitations place. As part of an initiative Instagram announced last month, the popular […]
NEW YORK — The Gannett and McClatchy news chains, publishers of more than 230 outlets including USA Today and the Miami Herald, have said they will stop using journalism from The Associated Press amid continued financial pressures for the news industry. The decision by Gannett, the nation’s largest newspaper chain, severs a century-old partnership. It […]
NEW YORK (AP) – The media company Gannett, the nation’s largest newspaper chain and publisher of USA Today, said Tuesday it would stop using journalism from The Associated Press later this month, severing a century-old partnership. The decision “enables us to invest further in our newsrooms,” Gannett spokeswoman Lark-Marie Anton said. With more than 200 […]
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case with far-reaching consequences for online free speech and content moderation. The issue is social media’s kowtowing to the federal government’s efforts to combat “misinformation” about COVID-19, the government’s response to the pandemic, and the vaccines developed to fight it. Did […]
Well, this is depressing. Psychologist and therapist Dr. Leslie Dobson recently posted a video on social media describing how pedophiles get their child sexual abuse material (CSAM), having worked with them for 20 years. According to her and the Wall Street Journal, you can subscribe to “parent-managed minor accounts” […]
You’ve surely heard the adage “absence makes the heart grow fonder” by now. But did you know the flip side is true too? Persistence makes the heart grow weary… or something like that. And that second phrase has proven demonstrably true with the current state of the flailing Marvel Cinematic Universe. Superhero fatigue isn’t just […]
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