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Policy Executives at Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter to Testify at Senate Hearing on Algorithms Share Filed to:alexandra veitch Photo: Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images To sign up for our daily newsletter covering the latest news, features and reviews, head HERE. For a running feed of all our stories, follow us on Twitter HERE. Or you can bookmark the Gizmodo Australia homepage to visit whenever you need a news fix. Next week, policy executives from Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter will testify at a ...

© Getty Executives from Facebook, YouTube and Twitter will testify next week at a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing on social media algorithms and amplification, the panel announced Friday. The hearing will feature Monika Bickert, Facebook’s vice president of content policy, Alexandra Veitch, YouTube’s director of government affairs and public policy for the Americas and emerging markets, and Lauren Culbertson, Twitter’s head of U.S. public policy.  Along with the executives, Trist...

Cancel Instagram for kids: It preys on childrens fear of missing out, advocates say to Zuckerberg Terry Collins, USA TODAY Nearly 100 worldwide experts and advocates are urging Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to ditch plans to create an Instagram for kids, claiming such a platform will exploit kids overall well-being. A coalition led by the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood and groups including the Commercial Center for Humane Technology, Common Sense Media and the�...

Normal text size Very large text size Among the flurry of British headlines that greeted Oprah Winfrey’s TV interview with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex last month, one stood out: WHAT HAVE THEY DONE? It was splashed across the front of the Daily Mail, the tabloid newspaper of choice for middle England, and had the air of Nanny, standing hands on hips surveying a mess of broken toys in the nursery. Meanwhile, the child who’d wreaked havoc in a fit of temper had run away to hide, ap...

5 Min Read Nearly four years before becoming White House Press Secretary under President Joe Biden, long-time Democratic operative Jen Psaki opened a consulting firm in Washington, D.C. Now social media users are using its name, Evergreen Consulting LLC, to suggest a link between Psaki and the Ever Given, a giant container ship that was stranded in Egypt’s Suez Canal for almost a week. The ship’s operator, Evergreen Marine Corp Taiwan Ltd, is an established publicly traded company with no t...

by Michael K. Emerson / March 16th, 2021 On Jan. 8, 2021, two days after the Capitol Hill “insurrection”, the Parler social media app was the number #1 most downloaded app in the Apple App Store. On “January 10, 2021, Parler CEO John Matze announced the company had been ‘dropped by virtually all of its business alliances after Amazon, Apple and Google ended their agreements … Every vendor from text message services to email providers to our lawyers all ditched us too on the same day.�...

ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt dives into tech’s reckoning with online hate On January 6, America watched in horror as groups that recruited and organized on major social media sites violently attacked the seat of American democracy. Within a matter of hours, tech companies took actions they’d said we’re out of the question for years. But real change requires thoughtful policy and a clear-eyed look at the choices that allowed dangerous extremism to thrive in the first place. We spoke with An...

How Meghan and Harry will build their brand, from the Oprah interview to the Netflix deal Katie Strick and Samuel Fishwick A six-week holiday can change your life. It did for Harry and Meghan, who returned home from Vancouver Island last January and dropped the nuclear bombshell that they were stepping back as senior royals. The couple clearly have no regrets - after being given 12 months to review their decision, Buckingham Palace today confirmed that the Duke and Duchess of S...

On one of the most extraordinary days in the recent history of the Royal family, allegations by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have shocked the Palace and the world.

On one of the most extraordinary days in the recent history of the Royal family, allegations by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have shocked the Palace and the world.