Instagram, Threads no longer recommending political content
Instagram and Threads will no longer actively promote political content, Instagram announced Friday. “We want Instagram and Threads to be great experiences for everyone,” the social media platform said in a press release. “If you decide to follow an account that posts political content, we don’t want to get between you and that posting, but […]
News Corp in ‘advanced’ talks with AI firms on content licensing deals, CEO says
News Corp., the media giant that owns the Post and the Wall Street Journal, is in “advanced” discussions with major artificial intelligence companies to license news content, a top company official has said. Ta. CEO Robert Thomson has been vocal in criticizing AI companies that effectively steal content from news organizations to train chatbots that […]
FACT CHECK: Is Microsoft Disabling The Computers Of People Who Share ‘Non-Mainstream’ Content Online?
post Shared by X Microsoft claims it is disabling the computers of people who share “fringe content” online in an effort to “combat misinformation” ahead of the 2024 presidential election. 🚨 Microsoft has announced plans to disable the computers of people who share “fringe” content online to combat so-called “misinformation” in the run-up to the […]
Social media algorithms ‘amplifying misogynistic content’ | Social media
Algorithms used by social media platforms are rapidly amplifying extreme misogynistic content, spreading it from teenagers’ screens to school playgrounds and normalizing it, according to a new report. That’s what it means. Researchers found that the level of misogynistic content suggested by TikTok quadrupled over a five-day monitoring period, as the algorithm served more extreme […]
Big Tech faces brutal question on Capitol Hill over content harming kids
Top leadership at big tech companies on Wednesday faced tough questions from senators on both sides of the aisle over the future of industry regulation related to combating online child sexual exploitation. The CEOs of Meta, TikTok, X, Snap, and Discord testified Wednesday at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. The hearing centered on the question […]
Musk’s X aims to hire 100 content moderators in Austin by end of year
Social media company I made it. The Elon Musk-owned company announced a new “Trust and Safety Center of Excellence” ahead of a Jan. 31 U.S. Senate hearing on online child sexual exploitation. X CEO Linda Yaccarino is scheduled to testify, along with the CEOs of Metaplatform, Snap, TikTok, and Discord. “The team is currently building,” […]
Elon Musk’s X to hire 100 content moderators in wake of Taylor Swift, AI fiasco
Elon Musk’s X said it would hire 100 full-time staff to crack down on child sexual exploitation after an AI-generated photo of Taylor Swift went viral on social networks last week. The San Francisco-based company, formerly known as Twitter, on Friday built a “trust and safety center” in Austin, Texas, and hired “in-house agents” who […]
Elon Musk’s X to crack down on child abuse material by hiring 100 content moderators
Elon Musk’s social media platform X (formerly Twitter) plans to hire 100 content moderators to further its goal of cracking down on online child sexual abuse content, X executives said Saturday. Ta. new york post report. Friday blog post from X provided an update on the company’s efforts to eradicate CSAM from its platform. “At […]
Elon Musk’s X to hire 100 content moderators in Austin this year
Barney & Co. host Stuart Barney responded to a Wall Street Journal report detailing the Tesla CEO’s drug habit. Elon Musk’s X is in the process of hiring 100 content moderators at its new office in Austin, Texas, and will focus on combating online child abuse on social media platforms, executives said Saturday. X, formerly […]
Meta’s retreat from news content is hurting traffic for media outlets: report
Reports say news organizations are experiencing a significant drop in visitors and a hit to revenue as Facebook and Instagram's parent company Meta Inc. pivots away from the news business. Despite its massive base of more than 3 billion users, Mark Zuckerberg's social media app accounted for just 33% of all social media traffic in […]