Despite the focus on generative AI misinformation, policy discourse ignores that politicians pose the gravest misinformation threat, ahead of big 2024 elections
As we head into a big election year, beware the risks of misleading statements from those at very top X: @fascinatorfun , @jpeterburger , @prateekwaghre , @katray , @rasmus_kleis , @risj_oxford , @ace...
Q&A with Dina Srinivasan, author of The Antitrust Case Against Facebook, on Meta and Google's ad duopoly, the US antitrust cases, concerns about Apple, and more
Patrick McGee / Financial Times : LinkedIn: Patrick McGee . Tweets: @rasmus_kleis , @simonjharris , @anshublog , @paultang , @patrickmcgee_ , @spignal , and @dinasrinivasan LinkedIn: Patrick McGee : ...
Q&A with Dina Srinivasan, author of The Antitrust Case Against Facebook, on Meta and Google's ad duopoly, the US antitrust cases, concerns about Apple, and more
Patrick McGee / Financial Times : LinkedIn: Patrick McGee . Tweets: @rasmus_kleis , @dinasrinivasan , @paultang , @patrickmcgee_ , @anshublog , @simonjharris , and @spignal See also Mediagazer Linked...
French director Marion Siéfert blames Meta's policies for banning livestreams of her “Instagram play” about teenage sexuality, even though it contains no nudity
Laura Cappelle / New York Times : Tweets: @jilliancyork , @jeremyoharris , @bloggeronpole , @lauracappelle , @rasmus_kleis , @mischabreslin , and @bloggeronpole Tweets: @jilliancyork : Excellent piec...
Report: Microsoft hid Bing autofill in the US for politically sensitive Chinese names, affecting Windows search; Microsoft blames a technical error
including those of Xi Jinping and Liu Xiaobo—wouldn't appear in the autofill system in English or Chinese. https://www.wsj.com/... Jonathan Cheng / @jchengwsj : @aatilley Microsoft said it had already...
Researchers describe Meta's roadblocks, including pre-publication review and restrictive contracts, to stifle research that might cast it in a negative light
Last March, Orestis Papakyriakopoulos, a researcher at Princeton University, applied to use a special data access tool that allows academics to do research on Facebook. Tweets: @paultang , @emmalbrian...
Substack touts itself as an alternative to toxic, ad-driven social media, but many of its top earners are polarizing figures who were deplatformed elsewhere
The company's CEO says the old way of social media is broken—but is his alternative much different? Tweets: @kantrowitz , @glennf , @ggreenwald , @rasmus_kleis , @aishagani , @wired , @wired , @carnag...
Researchers: as social networks clamp down on disinformation, Russia has begun spreading propaganda in comments sections on news outlets, such as Daily Mail
Online sites test new methods as social media platforms try to scrub their platforms of propaganda Tweets: @rasmus_kleis , @campuscodi , and @1br0wn See also Mediagazer Tweets: Rasmus Kleis Nielsen / ...
Facebook says it has a policy letting any person initiate a takedown of a post containing an image of their residence, regardless of the post's newsworthiness
just very bad ones.” Pretty accurate! To be fair, people WANT Facebook to exercise judgment, except when they DON'T want Facebook to exercise judgment. Doing nothing is also judgment. https://twitter....
An internal doc at Facebook, co-written by Chris Cox, aims to equip employees with rebuttals to the perception that the company's products fuel polarization
In a Thursday presentation, Facebook executives told employees the company isn't to blame for social division in the country. Tweets: @rmac18 , @jtemple , @rmac18 , @buzzfeednews , @rmac18 , @johnpacz...