Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifying before Congress in April 2018. It wasn’t his only appearance in DC this decade. (credit: Bloomberg | Getty Images) Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is testifying before Congress today, and he may have a few more uncomfortable questions to answer. Among them, why is Facebook autogenerating pages for white supremacist groups? […]
Big Tech CEOs head to Congress … again. But experts say this time could be different. Read More
Big Tech heads to Washington…again. But experts say this time could be different. Read More
Big Tech heads to Washington…again. But experts say this time could be different. Read More
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Getty Images) As Facebook scrambles to deal with its most problematic groups in the wake of January’s assault on the US Capitol, a new report finds that leaders inside the company knew as long ago as August that 70 percent of its top “civic” groups had too much hate speech, […]
Enlarge / A person browsing Parler in early January, back when it had content up other than vague promises to overcome being thrown off the whole Internet and return louder than ever. (credit: Jaap Arriens | NurPhoto | Getty Images) Right-wing social media platform Parler, which has been offline since Amazon Web Services dropped it […]
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Ars Technica) In less than three days, social networking service Parler has gone from darling of the right wing to a has-been service that can no longer be accessed online. In response, the company is now suing its former Web host, Amazon, alleging the hosting giant intentionally colluded with rival […]
Enlarge / That’s the book shut on one unsavory corner of the Internet… (credit: LdF | Getty Images) Reddit alternative Voat shut down on Christmas Day, citing a lack of operational funding, and casting doubt on the abilities of other similar almost-anything-goes, “free speech” platforms to stay online in the long run. “I just can’t […]
Expand / Facebook’s Menlo Park, California, headquarters as observed in 2017. (charge: Jason Doiy | Getty Images) Facebook now is, once more, theoretically frees up authorities against hate language, now using a new policy forbidding Holocaust denial on this stage. The shift is a result of some”well-documented growth in anti-Semitism worldwide,” Facebook executive Monika Bickert […]
Expand (charge: Aurich Lawson / / Getty Images) Facebook is pushing still another pair of new characteristics and policies made to minimize damage in the homestretch into Election Day while also raising”neighborhood” for consumers. However, these attributes may do nothing to mitigate present problems–they will probably create new, more prevalent injuries to both consumers and […]