Meta shuts down CrowdTangle, less than three months before the US election, in favor of the Meta Content Library; Mozilla says 50K+ petitioned against the move
Meta has been bombarded by academics, researchers, politicians and regulators about a tool called CrowdTangle, which most people probably haven't heard of.
Meta plans to label a wider range of video, audio, and image content as “Made with AI” starting in May, following feedback from its independent Oversight Board
Ryan Heath / Axios :
Meta plans to label a wider range of video, audio, and image content as “Made with AI” starting in May, following feedback from its independent Oversight Board
Ryan Heath / Axios :
The Mozilla Foundation and 90+ research and advocacy groups urge Meta to keep CrowdTangle online until January 2025 to track election misinformation globally
Karissa Bell / Engadget :
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 ,...
How Twitter, YouTube, and Meta gave up on removing lies about the 2020 US Presidential elections, having briefly banded together to do the right thing
For a time, they fought the good fight — but not any more — I. — On tech platforms these days you can get away with just about anything …
Tests show that Twitter, which resumed political ads in 2023, offers incomplete data on ads via its “disclosure” tool, missing some promoted fundraising tweets
but so far political advertising on the platform has been anything but forthcoming. https://www.politico.com/... See also Mediagazer
Meta updates Facebook's “Why am I seeing this ad?” tool to include information about how users' on- and off-platform activity informs its ML models for ads
Twitter plans to relax its longstanding ban on cause-based ads in the US and will expand the political advertising the company permits in the coming weeks
Elon Musk's social media service said it would begin to permit cause-based advertising to “facilitate public conversation around important topics.”
Twitter plans to relax its longstanding ban on cause-based ads in the US and will expand the political advertising the company permits in the coming weeks
Elon Musk's social media service said it would begin to permit cause-based advertising to “facilitate public conversation around important topics.”
Twitter plans to relax its longstanding ban on cause-based ads in the US and will expand the political advertising the company permits in the coming weeks
Elon Musk's social media service said it would begin to permit cause-based advertising to “facilitate public conversation around important topics.”
Nick Clegg says Meta could lift its ban on Donald Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts in January 2023, when his suspension expires, after consulting experts
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Meta confirms a now-fixed Facebook bug led to a “massive ranking failure” that increased views of harmful content up to 30% over the past six months
A group of Facebook engineers identified a “massive ranking failure” that exposed as much as half of all News Feed views to potential …
TikTok launches a Safety Advisory Council for Europe to help it with content moderation, bringing external experts in fields like child safety and extremism
TikTok launches a Safety Advisory Council for Europe to help it with content moderation, bringing external experts in fields like child safety and extremism
TikTok is bringing in external experts in Europe in fields such as child safety, young people's mental health and extremism to form …
Criticism of Facebook must move beyond content moderation issues; the effort to invent and invest in public cultural institutions should be our focus instead
Every day, a Twitter account run by Kevin Roose, a technology reporter for The New York Times, posts a list of the top 10 sources …
Biden staffers say their experiences in dealing with Facebook during the election left them concerned that the company is a threat to the electoral process
How Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter plan to handle Election Day and the subsequent days, clamping down on falsehoods and highlighting accurate information
So, it's going to be a big week — or weeks. Alexander Hall / Newsbusters : Mark Levin: Facebook Censored My Page on Eve Before Election; ‘I Will Not Be Intimidated’ David Gilbert /...
Social media platforms made progress since the 2016 election in addressing the most blatant abuses, but the misinfo issues may be endemic to their core product
Will Oremus / OneZero : Tweets: @ghoshd7 , @dlberes , @willoremus , and @whotargetsme . Thanks: @dlberes Tweets: Dipayan Ghosh / @ghoshd7 : “Four years on, it's hard to substantia...
How Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter plan to handle Election Day and the subsequent days, clamping down on falsehoods and highlighting accurate information
The sites are key conduits for communication and information. Here's how they plan to handle the challenges facing them before, on and after Tuesday.