Over 700 people, including AI experts and executives, sign an open letter calling for more regulation of deepfakes, such as by criminalizing deepfake child porn
especially as we head into a major election. ‘AI godfather’, others urge more deepfake regulation in open letter https://www.reuters.com/... Ari H. Mendelson / @kingmakerseries : Regulating this kind ...
Elon Musk says he wants to improve Twitter by “making the algorithms open source to increase trust, defeating the spam bots, and authenticating all humans”
and at some point it should be studied with the perspective of some temporal distance - but the neediest, most ardent, and most passionate censorship crusaders are the tattletale-employees of media co...
The Facebook Papers offer glimpses into how users perceive Meta's ad products, like the impact of its reaction emojis, and the concerns raised by employees
The “Facebook Papers” have been revelatory when it comes to how the company formerly known as Facebook deals with content moderation and a wide variety of other issues. Tweets: @joshsternberg , @marty...
A look at the relationship between Frances Haugen and anti-tech lobbying group Reset, which has guided her EU tour
As soon as Frances Haugen landed in Europe, she was given the VIP treatment. She met senior officials in Paris, Berlin and London. She testified to lawmakers in Brussels. Tweets: @markscott82 , @web...
Researchers and journalists in Ethiopia say Meta has done little to stop hate speech amid Ethiopia's civil war, claiming moderation often falls to volunteers
which Facebook has designated its highest risk level and repeatedly made assurances it is dedicating resources to monitoring — researchers and journalists say that hate is still spreading unabated and...
Internal documents shed light on Facebook's “holdout” experiments, where it withholds certain protections from a subset of users to see how they will react
on purpose https://www.protocol.com/... Issie Lapowsky / @issielapowsky : This is what Frances Haugen was talking about when she described Facebook's “integrity holdouts” to Congress: “These are peopl...
How Frances Haugen maximized the impact of her leaked Facebook documents, rolling them out to WSJ and then broadening the circle to a large group of outlets
In a time of mega-leaks, journalists' sources have become power players. Frances Haugen, the former Facebook executive …
Internal Facebook docs show employees touted its scale and dominance in presentations, including showing 78% of US adults and nearly all teens use its services
Documents collected by whistleblower Frances Haugen could give the company “a lot to regret” in its fights to prove it's not a monopoly.
Sources: over 12 news outlets, including AP and Fox Business, formed a consortium to sift leaked Facebook docs from Frances Haugen, reporting stories separately
It's not often that major news organizations coordinate to sift through a large trove of leaked company documents and agree … Tweets: @jamesrbuk , @goldstein222 , @parismartineau , @timkarr , @alexsta...
Nobel peace prize winner Maria Ressa discusses the role of social media in polarization, interactions with Zuckerberg and Sandberg in 2017, Frances Haugen, more
The journalist, whose reporting has taken on the president of the Philippines and the C.E.O. of Facebook, discusses the … Tweets: @dabeard , @nytopinion , @karaswisher , and @nytopinion Tweets: David ...