Leaked letter: Ed Martin, the interim US Attorney for DC, accused Wikipedia of allowing foreign manipulation and propaganda, threatening its tax-exempt status
Wikipedia Bluesky: Senator Sheldon Whitehouse / @whitehouse.senate.gov : Where is the referral from IRS? I've been told for years that DOJ does not investigate IRS matters without a referral. More w...
Meta's fact-checking partners, including USA Today, say they were blindsided by Meta's decision to drop them and reject claims of being “too politically biased”
www.wired.com/story/metas-... Kate Starbird / @katestarbird : This is extra-funny, since the fact-checkers often bent over backwards to not appear to be biased against conservatives. And also, becaus...
Australia drops plans to fine internet platforms up to 5% of their global revenue for failing to prevent the spread of misinformation online
It should have been 50%. [embedded post] X: David Limbrick MP / @_davidlimbrick : The more people learnt about it, the more they hated it. @fsuofaustralia : Victory! Communications Minister Michelle ...
X is right to stand up to Brazil's unjust “hostage laws,” but Musk's fight highlights his cynical free speech stance after he caved to Modi's censorship demands
RE: https://www.threads.net/... Adam Cook / @motorcityadam : Pretty clear that Musk wants Bolsonaro re-installed and Musk wants to leverage Twitter, by design, to encourage Bolsonaristas to overthrow ...
Microsoft says that Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, Loop, and Copilot features will be available on Apple Vision Pro at launch on February 2
Teams, Word, Excel and more are going virtual, and there's even Copilot Chance Miller / 9to5Mac : Microsoft shows off its day one Vision Pro apps, including Copilot AI integration Devesh Beri / MSPowe...
UK convenience stores are increasingly using facial recognition tech to combat shoplifting, which critics say is a disproportionate solution for minor crimes
British merchants are increasingly using the technology to combat shoplifting, raising questions about its spread as artificial intelligence rapidly improves it. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to . Twitt...
Tools for Humanity, co-founded by Sam Altman to build Worldcoin, raised a $115M Series C led by Blockchain Capital, aiming to scan everyone's eyes to create IDs
But first, let's address the elephant in the room: biometrics. — 1. Orb scans user's iris to verify humanness … Tweets: Spencer Bogart / @cremedelacrypto : I thought Worldcoin was some dystopian Orw...
Gaggle, which offers a tool to monitor online student communications, plans to stop flagging LGBTQ keywords in school assignments, after discrimination concerns
especially when it puts LGBTQ students at a higher risk of being flagged and forcibly outed. https://www.the74million.org/ ... @evan_greer : In a world where LGBTQ+ youth are being attacked and crimin...
Gaggle, which offers a tool for monitoring online student communication, says it will no longer flag LGBTQ keywords in assignments after discrimination concerns
especially when it puts LGBTQ students at a higher risk of being flagged and forcibly outed. https://www.the74million.org/ ... @cendemtech : “...the keywords put LGBTQ students at a heightened risk of...
Elon Musk briefly joined a Twitter Space hosted by a BuzzFeed News tech reporter discussing the latest bans, but left after journalists asked him questions
just so transparent https://twitter.com/... Tom Gara / @tomgara : Friendship ended with KATIE https://twitter.com/... Marisa Kabas / @marisakabas : audio of elon musk joining @katienotopoulos twitter ...