Ex-Facebook Director Katie Harbath says Mark Zuckerberg's team uses elections to take stock of “where society is, to readjust how they're approaching content”
and Mine, The Audacity of Copying Well Sean Burch / The Wrap : Meta Pivots Away From Protections, Guardrails as Trump 2.0 Looms Mat Smith / Engadget : The Morning After: Meta gives up on fact checking...
OpenAI shares its plans ahead of 2024 elections, including image provenance tools and not letting users make tools for impersonation or political campaigning
Here's How OpenAI Plans to Fight It PYMNTS.com : OpenAI to Implement Digital Credentials to Prevent Misuse in Elections Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE : OpenAI announces steps to prevent its generative ...
Accepting regulation locks in incumbents, OpenAI and other early winners, which signed the Center for AI Safety's letter, seem most invested in creating alarm
technology, broadly speaking — is the only way to grow the pie, and to solve the problems we face (...). To attack the solution is denialism at best, outright sabotage at worst.” https://stratechery.c...
In four new studies with collaboration from Meta, researchers find Facebook's algorithm is “influential” but doesn't necessarily change beliefs, and more
Ekeoma E. Uzogara Authors Info & Affiliations — pp. 386-387 Washington Post : Changing Facebook's algorithm won't fix polarization, new study finds Science : How do social media feed algorithms aff...
Mark Zuckerberg talks with Joe Rogan about his life, content moderation decisions, the FBI and the Hunter Biden laptop story, the metaverse, and more
Mark Zuckerberg is the chief executive of Meta Platforms Inc. … David Molloy / BBC : Zuckerberg tells Rogan FBI warning prompted Biden laptop story censorship Justin Carter / Game Developer : Meta's n...
In a speech on disinformation, Obama said social media firms' design choices contribute to polarization, and called for more transparency and Section 230 reform
including over the First Amendment—I didn't expect to find much to agree with in this speech. But it's actually very good, and worth reading, even if I don't agree with all of it. THREAD https://techp...
FBI seems to be targeting disgruntled staff working at the Russian embassy in Washington DC via geo-targeted recruitment ads on Facebook, Twitter, and Google
The FBI is trying a novel strategy to recruit Russian-speaking individuals upset about the country's invasion of Ukraine … Tweets: @digiphile , @katieharbath , @hexadecim8 , @mattblaze , @zachsdorfman...
Twitter says it stopped enforcing its civic integrity policy in March 2021 regarding lies about the 2020 US election as Biden had been president for over a year
massively so. Twitter is wrong. Katie Harbath / @katieharbath : This is a perfect example of why I wrote the oped about all the global elections coming up. We had no idea Twitter had stopped doing thi...
Ex-Facebook director Katie Harbath says social media will likely incubate future political violence if tech platforms or governments don't urgently intervene
Katie Harbath says she left Facebook disillusioned; now she pushes for more online guardrails — Katie Harbath joined Facebook …
Profile of Katie Harbath, a former Facebook public policy director, who says social media will incubate future political violence unless governments intervene
Katie Harbath says she left Facebook disillusioned; now she pushes for more online guardrails — Katie Harbath joined Facebook … Tweets: @rebekahktromble , @newley , @melissaryan , @blackamazon , @so...