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Meta's Oversight Board in a December policy recommendation called out the program for being set up to "satisfy business concerns" and said it risked doing harm to everyday users.

Under Twitter's new violent speech policy, threatening to kill or rape someone has the same consequences as wishing harm on homes and business properties.

>> you are trying to check some fun video and certainly you see something horrible. i will read a portion of your article. one day last week, for large mean pages, two with more than 1 million followers posted a video of a young child being shot in the head. the video amassed over 83,000 views in under three hours. why does that even live on instagram? how have they not just taken that video down and made it inaccessible. >> its wild, i actually conducted an experiment myself in the course of re...

According to a journalist who has extensively studied Big Tech giants such as Twitter, Facebook, and Google, these companies are not just private entities but essentially “agents of the national [...]

‘The message to parents is that their job is to protect their children’s privacy,’ lead lawmaker says.

Paresh Davetwo years ago, Twitter launched what is perhaps the tech industrys most ambitious attempt at algorithmic transparency. Its researchers wrot

Facebook's parent company Meta is updating its moderation policies, and will remove posts up to seven times before suspending or banning users who may be accidentally breaking rules.

The cases call into question whether social media platforms should take responsibility for their users' posts.

Before when they took it four justices thought they could give a clear ruling. >> and so do you think they are going to punt on it? based on yesterdays oral arguments and the ones that are getting under way right now, what do you think theyre going to do? >> yeah. its hard to read the tea leaves, of course, but if i had to bet, i would bet on them ruling on the basis of the anti-terror impact and not touching 230 for now. we have a couple of cases coming up in march that will force them to confr...

The EU seeks to rein in a notoriously difficult-to-regulate industry.