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For tat blows going on. >> and how much of this is facebook trying to -- well, facebook and instagram trying to sort out their image? a number of people have pointed out that over the past few months and years, facebook has been home to some of the content on the internet. >> i think all of the tech platforms are having to react quickly what is going on in ukraine. and i think that meta has the most to prove because of their history, because during the trump election, it was shown that russia ha...

Mental health crisis. it is partly aggravated by the pandemic, the isolation and anxiety thats resulted from it, but also by the internet and by the tech platforms that drive toxic content at children. as a result of these blackbox algorithms that nobody really understands, literally, no one understands because the tech platforms want to keep them secret, and we are trying to upgrade the law and update it to give parents tools to have greater visibility as to what their children are doing and to...

Platforms are under concurrent investigations right now by different agencies of the federal government, including criminal. i think we are all waiting to see what the results of these are. im not quite sure what they are accountability measures will be, but these guys are not off scot-free. i think it is important also look at the lobbying measures theyve undergone and the direct influence theyve had with, specifically, vice, to president kamala harris. >> its media commit social media, its the...

Mental health crisis. it is partly aggravated by the pandemic, the isolation and anxiety that has resulted, but also by the internet and by the tech platforms that drive toxic content at children. as a result of these black box algorithms that nobody understands. literally, no one understands because the tech platforms want to keep them secret. and we are trying to upgrade the law and update it to give parents tools to have greater visibility as to what their children are doing, and to give pare...

Bloodshed as russian invasion intensifies. an advisor to ukraines president reports russian forces are increasing the shelling around major cities. they describe the situation the capital city of kyiv is catastrophic. reports are coming in heavy artillery destroying residential buildings on the outskirts of kharkiv that is ukraines second largest city. now major tech platforms, netflix and take talker joining other services from pulling services from russia. tiktok no longer the post on the app ...

Now our nation faces a mental health crisis, it is partly aggravated by the pandemic, the isolation and anxiety and also by the internet and by the tech platforms that drive toxic content at children. as a result of these black box algorithms that nobody understands. literally nobody understands because the tech platforms want to keep them secret. were trying to upgrade the law and update it to give parents tools to have greater visibility as to what their children are doing and to give parents ...

Efforts to fight online disinformation often give oxygen to the very things they’re trying to fight.

A coalition of more than 60 advocacy groups called on Congress to enact stronger online protections for young Americans. The coalition also denounced Big Tech and its business model that is [...]

0 first of two long and intense days of questioning from members of the senate judiciary committee began this morning with democrats using their questions to allow jackson to issue a rebuttal to republican accusations that she has been soft on crime and republicans pressing her on her record as a judge and public defender and bringing up a whole host of conservative hobby horses. things like critical race theory. jackson has tried to stay above the fray in her responses. early on in the hearing,...

Pity the poor content moderator. Big Tech platforms expect their mods to correctly apply a set of rules to users in more than a hundred countries, in over a thousand languages. These users are clustered into literally millions of online communities, each with its own norms and taboos. What a task!...