Sources: the White House is preparing an EO requiring AI companies with federal contracts to be neutral and unbiased, to combat what officials see as “woke AI”
The order would be one of several expected to be released outlining the president's vision for winning the AI race with China
Brazil is piloting dWallet, a digital wallet program that lets users manage, own, and profit from their data, the first such nationwide initiative in the world
Brazil is piloting dWallet, a project that lets citizens earn money from their data. It is ahead of similar U.S-based initiatives. Bluesky: @ericgoldman . Mastodon: @Khrys@mamot.f...
California's State Senate passes an online safety bill requiring services to increase protections for users under 18; Governor Newsom must approve the bill
see below — partied?) extensively with good ole Harvey Weinstein: https://twitter.com/... @accountabletech : BREAKING: The California State Senate has passed the #CAKidsCode. This ...
Federal judge blocks a Texas law that limits large social media platforms' ability to moderate content, saying it violates the platforms' First Amendment rights
‘Social media platforms have a First Amendment right to moderate,’ wrote the judge — A federal judge has blocked a Texas law …
Federal judge blocks a Texas law that limits large social media platforms' ability to moderate content, saying it violates the platforms' First Amendment rights
‘Social media platforms have a First Amendment right to moderate,’ wrote the judge — A federal judge has blocked a Texas law …
Docs: Facebook tested turning off News Feed ranking for 0.05% of users in Feb. 2018 and found engagement dropped, Groups content rose, and ad views increased
Facebook documents show its News Feed algorithm treated emoji reactions as 5x more valuable than Likes starting in 2017, amplifying controversial content
Five years ago, Facebook gave its users five new ways to react to a post in their news feed beyond the iconic “like” thumbs-up: “love,” “haha,” “wow,” “sad” and “angry.”
An ex-ByteDance employee recounts the inner workings of the company's complex content moderation system and the role of China's internet censorship policies
because the human rights of *all* users matter. For more: https://www.hrw.org/... https://twitter.com/... Emily Birnbaum / @birnbaum_e : This is the story of a former content moder...
Ajit Pai says he won't move forward with rule-making on Section 230 and that he won't “second-guess” Facebook and Twitter's decision to bar Trump from posting
Emily Birnbaum / Protocol :
The omnibus funding bill Congress passed contains the controversial CASE Act, introduces a small claims copyright system, and may increase copyright trolling
and threaten Internet users with huge fines? https://www.fightforthefuture.org/ ... Eric Goldman / @ericgoldman : Just to put things in perspective, you're going to need 50 stimulu...
Sources: Trump is considering the establishment of a commission that would examine allegations of anticonservative bias and censorship on social media
Move is likely to draw pushback from tech companies; ACLU raises free-speech concerns — WASHINGTON—President Trump is considering establishing …
A look at EARN IT Act, a bipartisan bill to make firms earn Section 230 protections by meeting standards that reduce child exploitation but weaken data privacy
Backers of the EARN IT Act focus on protecting children from being exploited, but security experts say the bill actually chips away at your encrypted messages.
Germany starts enforcing law under which social networks will be fined up to €50M if they fail to remove hate speech, fake news, and illegal material
Germany is set to start enforcing a law that demands social media sites move quickly to remove hate speech, fake news and illegal material.