Complaints about criminal content on the internet soared to 17,493 cases in Germany last year, almost double the previous year and a new record, the German internet association eco reported on Tuesday. Violence of a sexual nature and transgressions directed at minors made up 78.9% of cases, with a further 11.7% concerning other sexual transgressions […]
Some Instagram users are pushing back against the platform’s new default settings that automatically limit the amount of political posts that appear in their feeds. “This is not okay,” Scott Hechinger, a New York-based civil rights attorney, wrote in a post on X, referring to the new Instagram setting as a “censor.” Meta/Instagram limited my […]
Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Tuesday accused Meta of suppressing Palestine-related content on its platforms, calling its actions “deeply troubling.” Their letter, addressed to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, is a follow up to a December one Warren sent that was also about Instagram and Facebook suppressing Palestinian content. The senators say […]
The investigation into Angela Chao, the CEO of a global shipping company who died at a private Central Texas ranch last month, found she inadvertently reversed her Tesla SUV into a stock pond and drowned as rescue attempts faltered, according to an incident report obtained Wednesday by the Austin American-Statesman, part of the USA TODAY […]
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Elon Musk has said his social media platform X is considering getting rid of showing the number of likes and reposts on each post. While speaking at the Morgan Stanley technology, media and telecom conference, Musk also said X, formerly Twitter, is a few months away from receiving approval for a money transmitter license in […]
By David Ljunggren OTTAWA (Reuters) -Canada on Monday unveiled draft legislation to combat online hate that would force major companies to quickly remove harmful content and boost the penalty for inciting genocide to life in prison. The Liberal government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau introduced the bill with the stated aim of protecting children from […]
By David Ljunggren OTTAWA (Reuters) -Canada on Monday unveiled draft legislation to combat online hate that would force major companies to quickly remove harmful content and boost the penalty for inciting genocide to life in prison. The Liberal government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau introduced the bill with the stated aim of protecting children from […]
Editor’s Note: A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. Sign up for the daily digest chronicling the evolving media landscape here. What constitutes “political” content? It’s an important question that Meta has conspicuously left unanswered, despite the Mark Zuckerberg-led social giant vowing last week to clamp down on the topic […]
The extremist Russian government has targeted a top instructional app for its inclusion of LGBTQ+ characters. Duolingo, the popular language learning application, is under investigation by Roskomnadzor (RKN), Russia’s media regulatory authority, according to Russian media outlet Meduza. The crux of the investigation lies in allegations against Duolingo for purportedly disseminating “LGBT propaganda” through the […]
The social media company X, formerly Twitter, is establishing an Austin-based “trust and safety” center and appears to be building out an Austin-based office. The company mentioned its plans in a post Sunday for the new location and in a wider post detailing X’s plans to “tackle child exploitation” on its website. “We are also […]
An estimated four million foreigners live in South Africa where anti-immigrant sentiment has been growing in recent years, with online hostility often directed at those coming from neighbouring Zimbabwe. A social media account that regularly posts this type of inflammatory content shared a photo claiming it showed a repurposed school bus serving as a bridge […]