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Even when parents talk about online safety with their children, platforms like Instagram & Snapchat put them at risk – and logging off doesn’t feel like an option. “That’s how these apps are made,” one parent told @Moody. “They’re made to pull them in.”https://www.washingtonpost.com/parenting/2023/10/02/teen-boys-sextortion/
ICYMI: The FEC has published our comment regarding a proposed rule change that would limit the agency's ability to conduct investigations and strike a blow to transparency. https://www.fec.gov/updates/week-of-september-25-29-2023/
Deepfaked media is here, and tech trade associations are minimizing its harms and telling Congress that it can’t be regulated. As @oliviasolon’s latest piece demonstrates, though, accessible AI voice synthesizers are toxic to our information ecosystem.
Trolls in Slovakian Election Tap AI Deepfakes to Spread Disinfo
Videos featuring AI-generated deepfake voices of politicians are spreading on social media ahead of the Slovak parliam...
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Now that the FTC has filed its lawsuit against Amazon, here’s a breakdown of the anticompetitive tactics that the agency argues are hurting consumers:
Conflicts of interest have no place in the Supreme Court. Now, CfA is joining @accountable_us and 40+ other watchdog groups in calling on Chief Justice Roberts to hold his colleagues to basic ethical standards.
Chief justice urged to make Alito and Thomas step aside in megadonor cases
More than 40 watchdog groups call on John Roberts to force US supreme court justices to step aside after ethics scandals
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Gun influencers are blurring the lines between content and marketing, @sunny___sone reports for @teamtrace. What happens when those accounts get boosted by social media algorithms? https://www.thetrace.org/newsletter/gun-influencers-social-media-disclosures/
This week, a jury convicted a member of the Boogaloo movement for aiding & abetting in the murder a federal law enforcement officer – an attack which he plotted with another man on Facebook. Here’s some background…
https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/right-wing-extremist-convicted-murder-and-attempted-murder-after-drive-shooting
In today’s @SenateRules hearing on AI in elections, @mayawiley of @civilrightsorg underscores the impact of trust & safety layoffs in tech. “Even when they had that staffing, it was inadequate.”
Meta described Threads as an app for “sharing text updates” & “joining public conversations.”
Then, it crushed journalism in Canada and blocked entire search terms instead of investing in content moderation.
What DOES Meta want Threads to be used for?
Meta's Threads struggles to grow amid rivalry with Elon Musk's X, ranking ahead of only Tumblr
Threads ranks near the bottom of the most popular social apps and continues to trail X, according to Insider Int...
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