How Trump leveraged Biden's TikTok ban law to help allies gain control of the app, amid fears it could be used to boost pro-Trump content and suppress criticism
The Biden administration argued a forced sale of the app would protect it from political influence. Bluesky: @karissabe , @cravenlovelace , @cjsprigman , @emmalbriant , @zakwilliamswzw , and @drewharw...
After a backlash, Meta says newly viral AI-generated profiles on Facebook and Instagram were created in 2023 in “an early experiment”, and it is deleting them
and what you can do with it Mia Sato / The Verge : Meta's AI-generated bot profiles are not being received well Josh Kerwick / Star Observer : Meta Wipes Scrutinised AI Accounts, Including A “Black Qu...
Meta says it is “99% of the way” to resolving a global outage that hit Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and WhatsApp, starting at approximately 12:40pm ET
Facebook: down — Bluesky: up up up with the workers Karissa Bell / @karissabe : Quite an outage for Meta... I can't remember the last time so many of its services were down more than an hour, must b...
When asked whether social media platforms are addictive, Jack Dorsey said they can be, whereas Mark Zuckerberg said the research is “inconclusive”
Avery Hartmans / Business Insider : Tweets: @pemalevy , @rachblevins , @ghoshd7 , @drdenagrayson , @cbsnews , @willoremus , @juliacarriew , @jason_kint , and @karissabe Tweets: Pema Levy / @pemalevy ...
A person involved in Twitter hack may have gained access to Twitter's internal dashboard using credentials pinned in one of the company's Slack channels
one of whom says he lives at home with his mother ... 19 and lived in the south of England with his mother.” https://www.nytimes.com/... Eric Geller / @ericgeller : Wow. Just seeing this. Twitter says...
Sources and documents detail a months-long cyberstalking and harassment campaign by members of eBay's security team against those behind the ECommerceBytes blog
Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @kadhim , @nongaap , @abihabib , @gzuckerman , @kyweise , @rebeccaballhaus , @roncharles , @karissabe , @daviduberti , @harrymccracken , @arawnsley , @harrymccracken , @...
Sources and documents: Zuckerberg and others shelved damning research into Facebook's polarizing effect, weakening efforts to apply its conclusions to products
and refuses to stop Charlesarthur / The Overspill : Start Up No.1317: Facebook knew it was polarising, ban Trump's Twitter?, how Bill Gates became … Anmol Mehrotra / Neowin : Facebook reportedly knew ...
Despite publicly pausing verification, Twitter has verified 10,000+ accounts in recent months but withheld the privilege from anyone without backchannel access
letting people voluntarily tie their profiles to a verified identity could enable more trust and healthier conversations, two of the company's stated priorities @byardduncan : This is a very good scoo...
Twitter says it fixed a bug that sent some users' direct messages from their interactions with business accounts to third-party developers, since May 2017
but probably not Ginny Marvin / Marketing Land : Twitter: A bug may have sent some direct messages to business account developers Timi Cantisano / Neowin : For over a year, a Twitter bug has been expo...
WikiLeaks releases mostly decade-old documents detailing CIA techniques for compromising Macs and iOS devices using EFI, UEFI, and firmware malware
Sci-fi fans who have watched Doctor … Sam Biddle / The Intercept : Apple Says It Fixed CIA Vulnerabilities Years Ago Alexandra Burlacu / Tech Times : Apple On Latest WikiLeaks CIA Documents: No Worrie...