Signal's president says the TikTok bill won't offer any meaningful privacy protection from China, but will further entrench the dominance of US social networks
Earlier this month, the United States House of Representatives passed the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act … Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to and @olaf@social.secr...
Q&A with OnlyFans CEO Keily Blair on paying out $15B+ to creators since inception, negative perceptions of the site, hosting sports and other content, AI, more
Cristina Criddle / Financial Times : X: @keilyblair and @1br0wn . LinkedIn: Keily Blair See also Mediagazer X: Keily Blair / @keilyblair : Are you “OnlyFans curious”? Want to know what's next for @On...
Despite the focus on generative AI misinformation, policy discourse ignores that politicians pose the gravest misinformation threat, ahead of big 2024 elections
As we head into a big election year, beware the risks of misleading statements from those at very top X: @fascinatorfun , @jpeterburger , @prateekwaghre , @katray , @rasmus_kleis , @risj_oxford , @ace...
Q&A with Signal president Meredith Whittaker on how existential warnings about AI might help Big Tech entrench its power, the UK's Online Safety Bill, and more
The president of the not-for-profit messaging app on how she believes existential warnings about AI allow big tech to entrench their power … LinkedIn: Timnit Gebru . Tweets: @grettalouw , @colincrowel...
Sources: the UK plans to propose a bill next week letting the CMA's digital markets unit target Big Tech companies with £25B+ global revenue or £1B UK revenue
Draft bill expected within days that will put CMA's digital markets unit on a statutory footing LinkedIn: Batuhan Tuncel . Tweets: @1br0wn and @fosspatents LinkedIn: Batuhan Tuncel : 🚨The British gove...
Officials in Zhengzhou, China, used a location-based health code system to prevent protests by forcing 1,000+ depositors of failing rural banks to quarantine
Financial Times : Tweets: @chinabeigebook , @ftchina , @mmaunder , @wessiedutoit , @empo11on , @dr_ulrichsen , @financialtimes , @alexisak , and @1br0wn Tweets: @chinabeigebook : “Just buying cold me...
Developers suspect that China has forced Gitee, the Chinese equivalent to GitHub, to censor open-source code, a move that harms trust and the quality of code
Many suspect the Chinese state has forced Gitee, the Chinese competitor to GitHub, to censor open-source code in a move developers worry could obstruct innovation. Tweets: @charlottejee , @giano , and...
Profile of Paul Romer, once tech's favorite economist and now a critic, who has championed state taxes on the digital ads sold by Facebook and Google
Paul Romer's call for government activism, particularly toward the big tech companies, reflects “a profound change in my thinking.” Tweets: @ramaswmysridhar , @1br0wn , @staceynycdc , @hoofnagle , @an...
Criticism of Facebook must move beyond content moderation issues; the effort to invent and invest in public cultural institutions should be our focus instead
Every day, a Twitter account run by Kevin Roose, a technology reporter for The New York Times, posts a list of the top 10 sources … Tweets: @aaschapiro , @natematias , @steph_moore , @random_musings ,...
A look at the state of deepfake pornography, which has become rampant on porn websites, with some videos of popular actresses having millions of views
Non-consensual deepfake videos, that humiliate and demean women, are racking up millions of views on mainstream porn sites. Nothing is being done about them Tweets: @mattburgess1 , @mcglynnclare , @s...