Subtle hostile social media messaging is being missed by artificial intelligence tools
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Hotline targets Big Tech’s ‘shady’ EU lobbying
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A group of activists and members of the European Parliament on Thursday launched a hotline to ...
Nuggets mined from thousands of tweets can persuade us to eat more climate-friendly
Dependencies between annotation rounds. Credit: A Dataset of Sustainable Diet Arguments on Twitter (2023). Experience and opinion trump fact in ...
Microsoft reports outage for Teams, Outlook, other services
People walk past a Microsoft office in New York, Nov. 10, 2016. On Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023, Microsoft reported a ...
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Trump campaign asks Meta to reinstate his Facebook account
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Donald Trump's campaign is asking Facebook's parent company to reinstate his access on grounds he's a ...
Biden urges US Congress to rein in Big Tech
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain US President Joe Biden on Wednesday urged Republican and Democratic lawmakers to break years of political ...
China moves to regulate deepfake technology
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain New rules went into effect in China on Tuesday to regulate the use of deepfakes, the ...
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Twitter says it will relax ban on political advertising
This July 9, 2019, file photo shows a sign outside of the Twitter office building in San Francisco. Twitter said ...
War-themed video game fuels wave of misinformation
Footage from the war-themed Arma 3 video game, often marked "live" or "breaking news" to make it appear genuine, has ...
Is TikTok stealing more than just your time?
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain More than 86 million Americans use the social media app TikTok to create, share, and view ...
Twitter has been important for disability activism—that’s being lost under Elon Musk
Credit: LightField Studios / Shutterstock Before purchasing Twitter, Elon Musk said that a public platform for free speech is a ...
What social media regulation could look like: Think of pipelines, not utilities
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter, and his controversial statements and decisions as its owner, have fueled ...
China tightens regulation of online comments
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain China began applying new rules governing online comments on Thursday, further threatening freedom of expression in ...
Foxconn to ease COVID-19 curbs in Chinese iPhone factory
A medical worker takes a swab sample to test for COVID-19 from a worker at the Foxconn factory in Wuhan ...
TikTok’s use of music poses a threat to artistic diversity—an expert explains why
Tik Tok earned USD $12 billion (£10.5 billion) in advertising revenue in 2022. Credit: Shutterstock/Daniel Constante It has been another ...
Sam Bankman-Fried: crypto rock star facing life in jail
Cryptocurrency tycoon Sam Bankman-Fried has fallen into disgrace and is facing a hefty jail sentence. Sam Bankman-Fried has had a ...
AI enables more effective humanitarian action by estimating population density
Credit: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne Researchers from EPFL and ETH Zurich, working together with the International Committee of the ...
The internet is headed for a ‘point of no return,’ claims professor
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Eventually, the disadvantages of sharing your opinion online will become so great that people will turn ...
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