Biden's EO on AI tries to chart a middle path by letting AI development continue with modest new rules and signaling the government plans to monitor AI progress
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A look at the frayed relationship between Mark Zuckerberg and Tim Cook as Apple rolls out its new privacy feature for iPhones
Facebook is not happy Emily Birnbaum / Politico : Senate to lift the hood on social media algorithms Ian Sherr / CNET : Apple's M1 chip gives Mac some iPhone shine. Now we find out how much Andy Meek ...
A look at the making of Facebook's Oversight Board, its members, Zuckerberg's rationale for its existence, and criticisms of the endeavor
one that's also an obvious part of @Facebook's PR strategy. https://www.newyorker.com/... Alex Kozak / @alexkozak : Such amazing reporting here from @Klonick. She manages to capture a lot about tech c...
Facebook is referring its decision to indefinitely suspend Trump's accounts to the Oversight Board and says the accounts will remain suspended in the meantime
but I love what they are doing with their Oversight Board (even if it's a CYA move & 10 years too late). https://twitter.com/... Brooke Binkowski / @brooklynmarie : Just in time for the 2016, I mean 2...
Sources: after the election, Zuckerberg agreed to temporarily tweak Facebook's algorithm to make authoritative news like CNN and NYT appear more prominently
Good morning! This Wednesday, markets are booming … Charlesarthur / The Overspill : Start Up No.1437: new Honor phones to struggle for chips, UK government accused of blocking FOI, Covid's smart muta...
Twitter and Facebook labeled a message from Trump alleging election theft; Twitter restricted sharing of the tweet, but Facebook didn't reduce the post's spread
Good morning! This Thursday, why it's hard … Sam Dean / Los Angeles Times : Twitter flags Trump election tweets as misleading Brandy Zadrozny / NBC News : Vote Watch: Twitter takes action on multiple...
Recording of Senate Commerce Committee hearing on Section 230 where Jack Dorsey, Mark Zuckerberg, and Sundar Pichai testified
bringing in Zuckerberg, Pichai, & Dorsey to defend their content moderation under threat of gutting Section 230, days before the election—feels like a last-ditch effort to spook them out of enforcing ...
Facebook will now ban posts that deny or distort the Holocaust; Zuckerberg says his “thinking has evolved” as data shows an increase in anti-Semitic violence
including strongmen and their most avid followers. https://nyer.cm/bbhby6Q @newyorker : .@andrewmarantz reports on Facebook's inability or unwillingness to stamp out the hate speech and disinformation...
President Trump told reporters on Friday that he will act soon to ban TikTok in the United States
and people are blaming Sarah Cooper, who may have hurt his feelings Joshua Keating / Slate : TikTok Could Have Been China's Nintendo Kaya Yurieff / CNN : ‘Everyone is going cray cray’: TikTok users fr...
Sources: Facebook is considering imposing a ban on political ads on its network in the days leading up to the US election in November
so sorry — maybe even death” https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/... Kurt Wagner / @kurtwagner8 : Full story: Facebook is considering a ban on political ads in the days leading up to Novem...