Enlarge / Smoke rises from a Russian tank destroyed by Ukrainian forces in the Luhansk region on February 26, 2022. (Photo by Anatolii Stepanov / AFP via Getty Images) (credit: Anatolii Stepanov / AFP) As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine grinds on, Meta is temporarily changing its policies to allow users on Facebook and Instagram to […]
Enlarge / One hundred cardboard cutouts of Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg stand outside the US Capitol in Washington, DC, April 10, 2018. (credit: Saul Loeb | Getty Images) Facebook’s senior executives interfered to allow US politicians and celebrities to post whatever they wanted on its social network despite pleas from employees to stop, […]
Enlarge (credit: MikkelWilliam | Getty Images) Since early August, Twitch has been wrestling with an epidemic of harassment, known as “hate raids, ” against marginalized streamers. These attacks spam streamers’ chats with hateful and bigoted language, amplified dozens of times a minute by bots. On Thursday, after a month trying and failing to combat the […]
Enlarge (credit: Gab.com) The founder of the far-right social media platform Gab said that the private account of former President Donald Trump was among the data stolen and publicly released by hackers who recently breached the site. In a statement on Sunday, founder Andrew Torba used a transphobic slur to refer to Emma Best, the […]
Enlarge (credit: Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Parler may never recover from being banned by Amazon and a number of other technology companies, CEO John Matze told Reuters in a Wednesday interview. “I am an optimist,” he said at one point in the conversation. “It may take days, it may take weeks but Parler will return […]
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have HAD IT with social media… And in light of all the crazy stuff that’s gone on online in the last couple years — and, well, the last couple days — can we really blame them? Related: Master Archie Seriously Has The MOST Precious Laugh! So Great! A new report published […]
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 […]
Our assignment to generate business better would be fueled by viewers just like you. To enjoy unlimited access to the journalism, subscribe now . Daily Facebook users visit over half per cent articles annually that contain hate speech, according to another report, together with the social networking ’s current claim that the issue is modest. The […]
Our assignment to generate business better would be fueled by viewers just like you. Facebook additional warning labels to over 180 million articles that comprised election emission involving March and Nov. 3, also supplying the initial accounting of the enormous issue faced by the business in devoting lies on its own support regarding the democratic […]
Our assignment to generate business better would be fueled by viewers just like you. Facebook has shown the artificial intelligence methods it applies to police its own social networking websites are now great enough to automatically flag over 94 percent of hate language on its own social networking websites, in addition to grabbing more than […]