Meta's Oversight Board took 234 days to get a ruling in an incitement to violence case involving Hun Sen, revealing a problem with the board's glacial pace
Today let's talk about one of the most important cases that Meta's Oversight Board has heard to date — and how the process ultimately revealed … Threads: @crumbler . Bluesky: @zitron.bsky.social . X: ...
A look at The Frost, a 12-minute movie created by Waymark using DALL-E 2, as startups like Waymark and Runway make AI tools for fast and cheap video production
“We kind of hit a point where we just stopped fighting the desire for photographic accuracy … Tweets: Jack Shafer / @jackshafer : “The immediate future of generative video is being shaped by the adver...
Meta's promised metaverse is going to be boring and is meant to distract us from the world that Facebook helped break
You're not losing your mind: it really does just sound like a worse version of the internet. Chris Vallance / BBC : Facebook's metamorphosis - will it work? Andrew Hutchinson / Social Media Today : Fa...
Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook the company is now Meta, to better encompass all of its products
the Facebook company's new name. Meta is helping to build the metaverse, a place where we'll play and connect in 3D. Welcome to the next chapter of social connection. https://twitter.com/... Jack⚡️ / ...
Michigan GOP lawmaker introduces a bill that requires fact checkers to register with the state using a $1M fidelity bond, and levies $1K/day fine for violations
Lansing — A Michigan lawmaker who's been at the center of efforts to question the 2020 election introduced a bill Tuesday that would require … Tweets: @ddale8 , @jtemple , @campuscodi , @mcmuckraker ,...
How book publishers are trying to turn the age-old library system into a “reading as a service” operation through their lawsuit against the Internet Archive
In a lawsuit against the Internet Archive, the largest corporations in publishing want to change what it means to own a book. Tweets: @transgamerthink , @mariabustillos , @hkesvani , @es_taa , @shujax...
Interviews with current and former staff, sellers, and suppliers on how Amazon dictates and unpredictably changes rules, punishes and threatens businesses
hundreds of thousands of companies from start-ups to giant brands — means it can squeeze them for profits, and in some cases, threaten their survival. https://www.nytimes.com/... @nytimes : Amazon pun...
Facebook could have limited the reach of Alex Jones and other “dangerous” figures without outright bans, which erode the US' strong free speech traditions
Jack Shafer is Politico's senior media writer. — Free speech took a whacking Thursday as Facebook cited its policies against …
Rupert Murdoch suggests Facebook pay carriage fees similar to the cable TV model to recognize trusted publishers
How to Stay Safe from Killer Robots? Stand In a Puddle Siladitya Ray / MediaNama : Rupert Murdoch wants Facebook to pay publishers for their content Todd Spangler / Variety : Rupert Murdoch: Facebook ...
Law enforcement has used services like SiriusXM and GM's OnStar to track cars and listen in on conversations since at least 2001, review of court filings shows
The rapid spread of connected devices that can listen and locate has been a boon for law enforcement. Tweets: @uvstaska , @hoofnagle , @jackshafer , @gerzic , @jackshafer , @onstar , @swiftonsecurity ...