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Google will continue to try to surface high quality, relevant content while downgrading sites that attempt to exploit peoples' reputations.
By NAOMI NIX | Bloomberg | Published: May 6, 2021 The decision by a Facebook panel to extend for up to six months former President Donald Trump's banishment from the social media platform has renewed calls to revoke the legal shield that enabled Facebook to grow into one of the richest and most powerful companies in the world. Minutes after the announcement, it was clear that the Facebook ruling hadn't pleased liberals or conservatives. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy tweeted that Republicans would move to "rein in big tech power over our speech" if the GOP takes control of the House a...
Section 230, which turned 25 years old this month, has played a central role in shaping the internet. Over the past year, Congress has introduced several proposals to change the law — some of them drastic — but the bills have often focused on a handful of very large tech companies like Facebook and Google. In reality, Section 230 has created a lot of the web as we know it. On Monday, March 1st, we’re holding an event on Section 230 and the future of tech regulation. After a keynote from Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), I’ll be sitting down with Wikimedia Foundation general counsel Amanda Ke...
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A vast web of vengeance: When online lies destroy lives 19 minutes to read By: Kashmir Hill Outrageous lies destroyed Guy Babcock's online reputation. When he went hunting for their source, what he discovered was worse than he could have imagined. Guy Babcock vividly remembers the chilly Saturday evening when he discovered the stain on his family. It was September 2018. He, his wife and their young son had just returned to their home in Beckley, an English village outside of Oxford. Babcock still had his coat on when he got a frantic call from his father. "I don't want to up...
Tue, Feb 2nd 2021 12:06pm — Mike Masnick If you haven't read it yet, I highly recommend Kash Hill's incredible NY Times story about a clearly disturbed individual, who admits to "suffering from severe mental health illnesses," who filled the web with horribly defamatory information about a random guy and everyone in his family. It turned out that the reason appeared to be that nearly 30 years ago, the guy's father had fired the woman from her job in a real estate office. The story is all too familiar to anyone who has experienced harassment online. One of the tactics used was posting comple...