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Email* Submit Democrats and Republicans in Congress are taking aim at a controversial law that shields internet platforms including Facebook and Twitter from lawsuits over content posted by users. The measure -- just 26 words known as Section 230 -- now faces its biggest reckoning since it was included in the Communications Decency Act of 1996. Calls to revise it grew in the months before the November election and intensified after the deadly attack on Congress by then-President Donald Trump's loyalists. Trump and his GOP allies claim Section 230 gives companies leeway to ...

Internet Firms’ Liability Protection Under Fire. 26 Words and What’s at Stake Democrats and Republicans in Congress are taking aim at a controversial law that shields internet platforms including Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc. from lawsuits over content posted by users. The measure — just 26 words known as Section 230 — now faces its biggest reckoning since it was included in the Communications Decency Act of 1996. Calls to revise it grew in the months before the November election and intensified after the deadly attack on Congress by then-President Donald Trump’s loyalists. “No p...

Share this article ST. PÖLTEN, Austria, March 2, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Armin Kirchknopf, a graduate of the degree programme Interactive Technologies at the St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, Austria, has developed an automatic detector for fake news within the framework of his thesis and a research project. The programme uses artificial intelligence techniques to classify messages by evaluating texts, images and other information from social media. On the internet and on social media, it is often difficult to tell the difference between fake news and real news. In his master thesis,...

Democratic Senators introduce new bill to remove Section 230 internet speech protections On February 5, three Democratic Party US Senators introduced legislation called the Safeguarding Against Fraud, Exploitation, Threats, Extremism and Consumer Harms (SAFE TECH) Act, which would modify laws that provide internet companies with legal protections for content posted on their platforms by users. In a press release accompanying the draft legislation, US Senators Mark Warner of Virginia, Mazie Hirono of Hawaii and Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota state that their proposal aims to “allow social media ...

 E-Mail The SignON project will begin on January 1, 2021 with a budget of 5.6 million euros for the next 3 years of the Horizon 2020 program of the European Union to conduct state-of-the-art research and develop an open solution for to mobile for automatic translation between sign and oral languages (written and spoken). The SignON EU consortium of 17 European partners led by Prof. Andy Way, Professor of Computing at Dublin City University, Ireland (coordinator), and Dr. Dimitar Shterionov Assistant Professor in Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence at Tilburg University, The Netherl...