Worried about liability for human rights issues, Aviva, Fidelity, and other institutional investors are pressuring tech companies to prevent potential AI misuse
Kenza Bryan / Financial Times : Twitter: @rasmus_kleis and @sub8u Twitter: Rasmus Kleis Nielsen / @rasmus_kleis : About time: “Big institutional investors are increasing pressure on technology compan...
Russia moves to designate Meta as an “extremist organization”; source says WhatsApp won't be affected as it is a means of communication
WhatsApp is the most popular messenger in Russia, it takes up nearly 60% of all messenger internet traffic. We are talking tens of millions of people having limited access to comms, and for a lot of t...
Sources: the UK Home Office is seeking changes to the Online Safety Bill to require platforms monitor “legal but harmful” content, worrying the tech industry
Radical powers in online bill would increase liability of global internet groups beyond current global regulation Tweets: @tim , @matthewlesh , @martinsfp , @jimkillock , @webdevlaw , @sjhmorris , @ut...
Twitter: governments made 43,387 content removal demands from a record 196,878 accounts in H1 2021; 95% came from Japan, Russia, Turkey, India, and South Korea
Twitter permanently suspended 453,754 unique accounts for violations of its child sexual exploitation policy — Twitter suspended 44,974 unique accounts for promotion of terrorism and violent organizat...
Facebook's Australia news ban shows tech giants don't mind giving up money to appease regulators and business, but will not give up control over platforms
and letting the stations set the price” - Facebook's Nick Clegg comes out punching on Australia's media law. https://about.fb.com/... Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis : True: “The money is not and has never ...
App Annie: Australian Broadcasting Corporation's news app was briefly the most downloaded app on the AU App Store after Facebook's news ban and is now second
to be clear, this graph shows the drop in traffic from Facebook to Australian news publishers. It's obvious, yes, but that makes it no less dramatic. The article goes on explain the situation in detai...
News Corp announces a multi-year, global partnership with Google to provide content from its news sites “in return for significant payments by Google”
In the face of proposed regulation in Australia that would require tech giants … Jared Newman / Fast Company : Facebook has banned Australian news, but there's a workaround Financial Times : Big Tech ...
Facebook says it will test a reduction of political content in News Feed for some users in Canada, Brazil, and Indonesia this week, and the US in coming weeks
and I believe it's nearer than most think — when “I get most of my news on Facebook” sounds just as anachronistic and unserious as “I comment a lot on YouTube” or “I watch a lot of UHF” or “I listen t...
EU law inhibiting the monitoring of email, messaging, and other services that takes effect Dec. 20 would also restrict scanning for child sexual abuse imagery
Regulators argue that while abuse imagery on the internet is abhorrent, unchecked scanning for it by tech companies could violate privacy rights. Tweets: @gabrieldance , @alexstamos , @missingkids , @...
As POTUS, Biden will overturn Trump's immigration EOs, support net neutrality, and may not prioritize Section 230 reform, but his antitrust approach is unclear
and Google in particular Financial Times : Biden's team is as antipathetic towards Zuckerberg and other tech titans as other Democrats, but some tech execs expect less drama after four years of Trump ...