Parler agrees to be acquired by Ye, formerly Kanye West, to create “an uncancelable ecosystem where all voices are welcome”; the deal is set to close in Q4 2022
and will also sign up to Truth Social Clare Duffy / CNN : Kanye West's biggest challenge with owning Parler may come from Elon Musk Anousha Sakoui / Los Angeles Times : What to kno...
Japan passes an amendment making “online insults” punishable by up to a year in prison, after the suicide of a reality TV star who had faced social media abuse
Tokyo (CNN)Japan's parliament on Monday passed legislation making “online insults” punishable by imprisonment amid …
[Thread] In an interview, Musk says Twitter has a “left bias”, he would “literally put” its “algorithm on GitHub”, and he thinks he would reverse Trump's ban
Twitter currently the “least bad” public square, @elonmusk says at #FTCar. “In order to be better at that it needs to get rid of the bots, the scams.” Live here: https://www.youtub...
NonFungible: NFT sales fell 92% to a ~19K daily average this week from a ~225K peak in September 2021; active wallets fell 88% to ~14K from a November 2021 high
Is this the beginning of the end of NFTs? — 1x — The NFT market is collapsing. — The sale of nonfungible tokens …
Investigation finds 65+ people were targeted by Pegasus and Candiru, including Catalans, likely by Spanish authorities, and details a new iOS zero-click, HOMAGE
Key Findings — The Citizen Lab, in collaboration with Catalan civil society groups, has identified at least 65 individuals targeted …
Limestone, Tennessee residents were promised economic benefits from a bitcoin mine, but now face constant noise pollution from its computers and cooling fans
Internal memo: Andrew Bosworth says Meta's virtual worlds need “almost Disney levels of safety” but moderation at “meaningful scale is practically impossible”
Internal memo: Andrew Bosworth says Meta's virtual worlds need “almost Disney levels of safety” but moderation at “meaningful scale is practically impossible”
from keeping a platform safe to correctly enforcing your own app store acceptance policies—seems to be impossible. https://www.ft.com/... Hannah Murphy / @mshannahmurphy : He also ...
Sources detail Zuckerberg's decisions putting growth over safety, like censoring “anti-state” posts in Vietnam and opposing a US voting info center in Spanish
Late last year, Mark Zuckerberg faced a choice: Comply with demands from Vietnam's ruling Communist Party …
Internal docs detail Facebook's struggles with violence-inciting content in India, including failure to designate some politically-connected groups as dangerous
Internal documents show a struggle with misinformation, hate speech and celebrations of violence in the country, the company's biggest market.
Internal docs show the extent of Facebook's knowledge of extremist Groups on its site but don't offer a complete picture of its decision-making in response
Company documents show that the social network's employees repeatedly raised red flags about the spread of misinformation and conspiracies …
Internal docs: Facebook employees created a test account in 2019 and within days it was recommended extreme and conspiratorial content, including QAnon Groups
In the summer of 2019, a new Facebook user named Carol Smith signed up for the platform, describing herself as a politically conservative mother …
DarkSide, the group behind the pipeline attack, claims it wants to make money, not cause “problems for society”, and it'll add “moderation” to picking targets
- A hacker group called DarkSide is behind the cyberattack on Colonial Pipeline that shut down a major oil pipeline over the weekend.
Study: 60% of 73 K-12 apps from 38 schools in 14 states across the US send student data to a variety of third parties, roughly 50% to Google and 14% to Facebook
The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed schools around the country to adopt and rely heavily on new technology.
Instagram is working on a version of the service suitable for kids under 13; source: the work will be led by Pavni Diwanji, a VP who joined Facebook in December
BuzzFeed News :
Instagram is working on a version of the service suitable for kids under 13; source: the work will be led by Pavni Diwanji, a VP who joined Facebook in December
Executives at Instagram are planning to build a version of the popular photo-sharing app that can be used by children under the age of 13 …
Dutch and Belgian police say they shut down Sky ECC, a messaging service allegedly popular with criminals, after infiltrating it in Feb, leading to 100+ arrests
Catalin Cimpanu / The Record :
Sources: while Trump was in office, the Trump Org negotiated a 40% stake in Parler in exchange for making it his main social network; the deal never finalized
Documents seen by BuzzFeed News show that Parler offered Trump 40% of the company if he posted exclusively to the platform.
Survey of 73 tech experts shows 93% approve of tech platforms' decision to suspend Trump's accounts following Capitol violence
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In internal letter, ~350 Twitter employees asked leadership to permanently suspend Trump's account and investigate Twitter's role leading up to the insurrection
A violent attack on the US Capitol prompted online platforms to ban President Trump Tweets: @rob_airone : @JoeBiden • Concerns about a possible, secondary attack on the U.S. Capito...