Analysts: Russia's invasion of Ukraine could accelerate the fracturing of the internet, amid pressure on US tech giants from both Russia and the West to respond
and Big Tech's barely doing a damn thing Washington Post : Social networks face pressure to ban Russian state media Stratechery : Russia and the Four Internets, Shifts and Social Media, Gelsinger Inte...
OnlyFans launches NFT profile pictures minted on the Ethereum blockchain; creators' NFT profile pictures will show an Ethereum symbol to mark them as authentic
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Twitter: governments made 43,387 content removal demands from a record 196,878 accounts in H1 2021; 95% came from Japan, Russia, Turkey, India, and South Korea
Twitter permanently suspended 453,754 unique accounts for violations of its child sexual exploitation policy — Twitter suspended 44,974 unique accounts for promotion of terrorism and violent organizat...
Zoom joins the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism, founded by Meta, Microsoft, Twitter, and YouTube to combat terrorist and extremist content
Elizabeth Culliford / Reuters : Tweets: @nicholasrasmu15 and @evelyndouek . Thanks: @eculliford Tweets: Nicholas Rasmussen / @nicholasrasmu15 : Very pleased to be welcoming @Zoom and their great team...
WhatsApp launches its first test of a public directory for businesses within the app, starting in São Paulo
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Facebook says it will use the same tactics that it uses to remove bot networks to target real-user accounts engaging in tactics like mass reporting
Facebook (FB.O) is taking a more aggressive approach to shut down coordinated groups of real-user accounts engaging in certain harmful activities … Tweets: @eculliford Tweets: Elizabeth Culliford / @e...
Facebook says it will spend $5M on multi-year deals with 25 local journalists for its Bulletin newsletter
Facebook Inc (FB.O) has chosen 25 local independent journalists to be paid out of a $5 million pot to write for its newsletter site Bulletin through multiyear deals, the company told Reuters on Thursd...
Ahead of House hearing, Mark Zuckerberg calls for Section 230 reform that makes protections conditional on platforms' ability to identify and remove content
Want this newsletter delievered to your inbox? — Good evening, Aaron Mackey / Electronic Frontier Foundation : Facebook's Pitch to Congress: Section 230 for Me, But not for Thee Russell Brandom / Th...
Leaked interface shows that Twitter is testing an “undo send” feature which may be a button that doubles as a progress bar
A newsletter a day keeps the FOMO at bay. Sign up now! Shruti Shekar / Yahoo News : Twitter underwhelms with “undo send” button Amritanshu Mukherjee / BGR India : Twitter Undo Send timer button comin...
Google says it has removed search ads linking to sites that charged US users large fees for voter registration or harvested their data, after a watchdog report
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