SCOTUS rules that public officials may block people on social media in certain circumstances, tossing aside challenges against Michigan and California officials
but only sometimes, SCOTUS rules Lauren Feiner / The Verge : Supreme Court defines when it's illegal for public officials to block social media critics Chris Teale / Route Fifty : Supreme Court clarif...
Study: LinkedIn's A/B testing of its People You May Know algorithm, involving 4M+ users in 2015 and 16M+ in 2019, could have affected some users' livelihoods
A study that looked back at those tests found that relatively weak social connections were more helpful in finding jobs than stronger social ties. Tweets: @drtechlash , @johncoogan , @alexstamos , @zo...
Experts say Amazon's encrypted chat app Wickr is flooded with child sex abuse images and the company is not taking basic safety measures to prevent sharing
Court records show that Wickr Me has become part of a toolkit used by people who exploit children. Tweets: @benjamingoggin , @benjamingoggin , @benjamingoggin , @anthony , @mattmday , and @jasonabbruz...
A look at growing online meth communities on Zoom, Reddit, and others as they attract little attention from content moderators, worsening the addiction problem
Benjamin Goggin / NBC News : Tweets: @denisechow , @kattenbarge , @nbcnewspr , and @nicolechilders Tweets: Denise Chow / @denisechow : “There is no meth without Zoom, and there is no Zoom without met...
A look at growing online meth communities on Zoom, Reddit, and others as they attract little attention from content moderators, worsening the addiction problem
In December, Paul went home for the holidays. Like many people, he hadn't seen his family for almost a year. Tweets: @denisechow , @nicolechilders , @kattenbarge , @nbcnewspr , @benjamingoggin , @kev...