👀 A team at Apple raised concerns about TikTok's age ratings due to “frequent or intense mature or suggestive content" that appeared in their review of the platform, according to improperly-redacted portions of the NC suit flagged by @accountabletech.
Apple told TikTok it’s unfit for young teens, new lawsuit details allege
Private communication from tech giant revealed in South Carolina’s lawsuit against Chinese-owned social media company.
www.washingtonpost.com
🚨 Meta is still raking in money from health benefits scam advertisements, even after TTP handed over a list of accounts compiled in yesterday's report. One advertiser – who hasn't been banned– has given Meta over $100K in the past week.
NEW: Meta helped scammers place more than 100,000 ads for fake federal benefits & “free” Trump 2024 merchandise.
Now, TTP, @TowCenter, & @ProPublica are exposing a network of 200+ Facebook pages that, together, paid Meta over $13 million to run scam ads. https://www.techtransparencyproject.org/articles/meta-hosts-sprawling-pro-trump-scam-ad-network-as-election-nears
It’s ironic that Meta is so bad at stopping scammers, @paleofuture writes, because it seems like a perfect job for AI.
“Or, at least it would be a perfect job for AI if it was anything more than a plagiarism machine.”
Scammy Ads on Facebook and Instagram Viewed 900 Million Times: Report
What a garbage heap.
gizmodo.com
Watch this video of an AI-generated news anchor hawking a “limited-edition Trump-Vance coin" and calling both candidates "handsome devils."
The anchor warns that “left-wing radical groups” are “campaigning to ban the coin.”
Confused? Get the whole story in TTP's report:
NEW: Meta helped scammers place more than 100,000 ads for fake federal benefits & “free” Trump 2024 merchandise.
Now, TTP, @TowCenter, & @ProPublica are exposing a network of 200+ Facebook pages that, together, paid Meta over $13 million to run scam ads. https://www.techtransparencyproject.org/articles/meta-hosts-sprawling-pro-trump-scam-ad-network-as-election-nears
NEW: Meta helped scammers place more than 100,000 ads for fake federal benefits & “free” Trump 2024 merchandise.
Now, TTP, @TowCenter, & @ProPublica are exposing a network of 200+ Facebook pages that, together, paid Meta over $13 million to run scam ads. https://www.techtransparencyproject.org/articles/meta-hosts-sprawling-pro-trump-scam-ad-network-as-election-nears
TTP shared data with @misstessowen to demonstrate that Meta was allowing paramilitary groups to grow their presence on Facebook.
As a billion-dollar company, Meta shouldn't be waiting for journalists & watchdog organizations to do this work for them.
"...The lack of accessible data has done much to shape the literature on social media’s role in the insurrection," write Dean Jackson, @justinhendrix, & @BritishTim.
Many studies focus on Twitter, but only because its API was once free & accessible... https://www.techpolicy.press/the-science-of-social-medias-role-in-january-6/
Journalists covering extremist movements should be aware of how these groups strategically use & manipulate media coverage, @wphillips49 writes for @datasociety. Read more (including recommendations for countering these movements) here:
The Oxygen of Amplification
New Data & Society report recommends editorial “better practices” for reporting on online bigots and manipulators; ...
datasociety.net
TikTok has failed to appeal a court's ruling in a case brought by the mother of a girl who died participating in a "blackout challenge" recommended to her via the platform's "For You Page."