2024-11-29
As @TaylorAnnabell found in X's audit report, it seems the platform does not bother detecting undisclosed ads, which are a massive problem on social media. But according to X's risk assessment they're doing great on consumer protection [image]
Politico
In a risk assessment submitted to the EU in September 2023, X defended its new approach to content policing and “mission to promote open conversation”
Mathieu Pollet / Politico :
2023-10-09
Consumer scams on social media are growing, and yet social media platforms don't take enough action on this (see the EU data in the DSA transparency database, n=39m content moderation decisions). Scam data from FTC, but Europol reports on similar trends https://www.ftc.gov/... [image]
Federal Trade Commission
One in four people in the US who reported losing money to fraud from January 2021 to June 2023 said the contact started on social media, causing $2.7B in losses
Emma Fletcher / Federal Trade Commission :
2023-10-08
Consumer scams on social media are growing, and yet social media platforms don't take enough action on this (see the EU data in the DSA transparency database, n=39m content moderation decisions). Scam data from FTC, but Europol reports on similar trends https://www.ftc.gov/... [image]
Federal Trade Commission
One in four people in the US who reported losing money to fraud between January 2021-June 2023 said it started on social media, resulting in losses worth $2.7B
Scammers are hiding in plain sight on social media platforms and reports to the FTC's Consumer Sentinel Network point to huge profits.
2022-11-18
TikTok Research API launch delayed until next year. The beta is only available to selected members of the Content and Safety Advisory Councils ‘with expertise in misinfo, violent extremism, hateful behaviour’ - you forgot e-commerce & advertising compliance, besties https://twitter.com/...
TechCrunch
TikTok begins testing its research API, announced in July, with members of its Content and Safety Advisory Councils, and is working on a content moderation API
2022-10-12
Microtransactions via tokens are offering new incentives to creators. Streaming makes you tokens on TikTok, Twitch, YouTube and a variation of that exists even on twitter. Remember Twitter tips? https://help.twitter.com/...
BBC
TikTok plans to take prompt action against “exploitative begging” after an investigation found refugees in Syrian camps pleading for digital gifts on the app
BBC Global Disinformation Unit, BBC News Arabic and BBC Eye Investigations — Displaced families in Syrian camps …
I came across quite a few streams like these in the past weeks, but even with a legal mind I never thought of them as ‘exploitative begging’. I find this @BBCNews framing deeply problematic for a number of reasons. https://www.bbc.com/...
BBC
TikTok plans to take prompt action against “exploitative begging” after an investigation found refugees in Syrian camps pleading for digital gifts on the app
BBC Global Disinformation Unit, BBC News Arabic and BBC Eye Investigations — Displaced families in Syrian camps …
2021-10-01
The entire FB/Insta teen mental health discussion is missing a *very* important element. Yes you've guessed it: influencers. Negative celebrity impact on youth is well documented. It has been happening for decades. W social media what changes is scale&pace https://techcrunch.com/...
TechCrunch
Senators grilled Facebook exec Antigone Davis at a hearing about Instagram's impact on teens and were frustrated by her reticence to answer questions directly
Last night, Facebook published two annotated slide decks in an attempt to contextualize the documents that the Wall Street Journal published … Source: Senate Commerce Committee .
2021-08-30
‘We cannot remove online hate through education because it is not born out of ignorance. Hostile people know their words hurt and that is why they use them’ - https://eandt.theiet.org/... on new paper by @boralexander1 & @M_B_Petersen https://www.cambridge.org/...
E&T Magazine
New research suggests the internet is not making people who engage in political discussions online more aggressive, but makes their behavior more visible
E&T Magazine :
2021-03-08
Noteworthy trend for content moderation: creators are making their own platforms, where a lot of them think content rules won't apply: https://www.bbc.com/...
BBC
Some popular YouTubers are building their own video sites, like Floatplane and Nebula, to help other creators publish and monetize niche video content
David Molloy / BBC : Tweets: @medcrisis , @arvidkahl , @watchnebula , @reneritchie , @jordanbharrod , and @catalinagoanta Tweets: Medlife Crisis / @medcrisis : I crashed out while...
2020-11-09
This year polls were off. Hopefully years of upcoming research will tell us. Finding solutions w/o understanding the problem can be very harmful. Here are some limitations of sentiment analysis as I understand them to apply to predicting voting behaviour https://www.wsj.com/...
Wall Street Journal