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ICYMI: YouTube promised to age restrict videos of 3D-printed weapons & automatic firearms. Now that TTP has found the company isn't enforcing its own policies, @RepDanGoldman is asking CEO Neal Mohan to take action:
NY Rep. Goldman says YouTube still allows youths to watch ghost gun vides
The Congressman and a dozen colleagues are warning the platform to crack down on its own rules.
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There are many bombshells in @NewMexicoDOJ’s SnapChat complaint, but the ones involving CEO Evan Spiegel are particularly damning.
Here's Spiegel killing a proposal to improve SnapChat's ability to report CSAM – simply because he didn't want to be responsible for it.
Today, @RepDanGoldman & 15 colleagues cited TTP’s research in a letter to YouTube CEO Neal Mohan, asking his company to fulfill its promise to age restrict videos of automatic weapons, machine gun conversion devices, & homemade guns. Here's why it matters:
We have no real power,” says @courtneyr, who serves on GIFCT's advisory panel. "To address the real abuse happening on these platforms, we need to have a more meaningful governance structure with accountability and transparency.”
"On Dec. 2, Jack went to his girlfriend’s house and logged into her Facebook. He ordered a pill from Maylia." Jack would later overdose from that pill, @lizziepresser writes, because it contained fentanyl.
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A group of researchers has written a letter expressing concerns with Meta's 2023 polarization study, which the company used to defend platform design features blamed for driving extremism and political discord. https://www.science.org/content/article/study-found-facebook-algorithm-didnt-promote-political-polarization-critics-doubt
Tech groups like the Chamber of Progress & NetChoice might have superficial political differences, TTP Director Katie Paul tells @AustinJ_Reports, "but ultimately they are rowing in the same direction, which is to fight any form of tech regulation..."
How Big Tech leverages its influence in statehouses - Pluribus News
State lawmakers seeking to regulate the tech sector face an arsenal of industry-funded trade groups that together co...
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More signs of trouble in Meta’s ad business. If this is the treatment clients receive, can you imagine how much effort Meta puts into areas like fraud prevention or trust & safety?