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CEOs of Meta, X, Discord, TikTok and Snap testify before Senate Judiciary Committee
2Apr By adminNo Comments
Technology

CEOs of Meta, X, Discord, TikTok and Snap testify before Senate Judiciary Committee

The Senate Judiciary Committee's grilling of four social media executives produced some notable moments. Here are a few:Zuckerberg, Spiegel personally apologize to families: Meta CEO Zuckerberg stood to apologize to the families in the hearing room. “I’m sorry for everything you have all been through,” he said. “No one should go through the things that your families have suffered and this is why we invest so much and we are going to continue doing industry-wide efforts to make sure no one has to go through the things your families have had to suffer.”Mark Zuckerberg spoke to victims and their family members as he testified during the US Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, "Big Tech and the Online Child Sexual Exploitation Crisis." Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty ImagesSnap CEO Evan Sp...
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The Nippon Steel Protectionists – WSJ
23Dec By adminNo Comments
Health

The Nippon Steel Protectionists – WSJ

The news that Japan’s Nippon Steel will purchase U.S. Steel has sent much of Washington into a political fit, and President Biden is now registering his great concern, teeing up a government investment committee to review the sale. Public service reminder: Japan is arguably America’s most important ally as a bulwark against China.The White House on Thursday dispatched national economic adviser Lael Brainard to float a review of the deal by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, or Cfius. The statement called U.S. Steel “a core component” of domestic steel production that is “critical to our national security.” Ms. Brainard also tossed an encomium to the United Steelworkers union: “President Biden believes union workers are the best workers in the world.”Copyright ©2023 ...
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The New Era of Social Media Looks as Bad for Privacy as the Last One
2Nov By adminNo Comments
Technology

The New Era of Social Media Looks as Bad for Privacy as the Last One

When Elon Musk took over Twitter in October 2022, experts warned that his proposed changes—including less content moderation and a subscription-based verification system—would lead to an exodus of users and advertisers. A year later, those predictions have largely borne out. Advertising revenue on the platform has declined 55 percent since Musk’s takeover, and the number of daily active users fell from 140 million to 121 million in the same time period, according to third-party analyses.As users moved to other online spaces, the past year could have marked a moment for other social platforms to change the way they collect and protect user data. “Unfortunately, it just feels like no matter what their interest or cultural tone is from the outset of founding their company, it's just not enou...
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How Social Media Abdicated Responsibility for the News
18Oct By adminNo Comments
Entertainment

How Social Media Abdicated Responsibility for the News

In February of last year, when Russia invaded Ukraine, the horror of war filtered out into the world through user-generated videos on TikTok. Ukrainian soldiers on the front lines and civilians sheltering in their homes posted videos showing advancing tanks, bombed-out apartment blocks, and rations packages being delivered to troops. Both the volume and the intimacy of the footage seemed unprecedented; the conflict was quickly dubbed the “first TikTok war.” Ten days ago, the eruption of violence between Hamas and Israel became the second major war of that new era of social media. But social media has changed to a surprising degree in the intervening year and a half. Across the major platforms, our feeds are less reliable sources of authentic crowdsourced news than they ever were—which was...
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Insiders Say X’s Crowdsourced Anti-Disinformation Tool Is Making the Problem Worse
18Oct By adminNo Comments
Technology

Insiders Say X’s Crowdsourced Anti-Disinformation Tool Is Making the Problem Worse

On Saturday, the official Israel account on X posted a picture of what looks like a child’s bedroom with blood covering the floor. “This could be your child’s bedroom. No words,” the post reads. There is no suggestion the picture is fake, and publicly there are no notes on the post. However, in the Community Notes backend, viewed by WIRED, multiple contributors are engaging in a conspiracy-fueled back-and-forth.“Deoxygenated blood has a shade of dark red, therefore this is staged,” one contributor wrote. “Post with manipulative intent that tries to create an emotional reaction in the reader by relating words and pictures in a decontextualized way,” another writes.“There is no evidence that this picture is staged. A Wikipedia article about blood is not evidence that this is staged,” anothe...
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Rumors of a ‘Global Day of Jihad’ Have Unleashed a Dangerous Wave of Disinformation
14Oct By adminNo Comments
Technology

Rumors of a ‘Global Day of Jihad’ Have Unleashed a Dangerous Wave of Disinformation

Yesterday, FBI director Christopher Wray attempted to assure the Jewish community in the US that his agency is taking any threats seriously. “I am not, in any way, trying to alarm you, but I want you to be confident that the FBI is most assuredly paying attention,” he said during an update on domestic security guidance following the Hamas attacks. “We remain vigilant to the potential of this event to inspire violence.”The terms “jihad” and “day of rage” were both trending on X this morning, having been boosted by prominent accounts, including one belonging to hard-right representative Marjorie Taylor-Greene of Georgia. “If we are not going to vote today for a Speaker, why don't we just go home and regroup next week? I’ll buy ammo while I’m home,” Greene wrote on X.Rogan O’Handley, a forme...
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