Q&A: How online crowds wield power, for good and bad
How do online crowds form, grow and behave? How do they wield influence? What distinguishes desirable crowd activism from mob harassment?
Sep 9, 2024
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Telegram chief Durov announces 'new features' to combat illicit content
Telegram founder and chief executive Pavel Durov on Friday announced a range of new features aimed at combating illicit content, bots and scammers, a week after he was arrested and charged by French authorities over violations ...
Sep 6, 2024
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Brazilians flock to Bluesky and Threads after X suspension
Millions of Brazilians, including the president, have flocked to social media platforms such as Threads or Bluesky, where Portuguese has become the most spoken language in the few days since Elon Musk's X was shut down in ...
Sep 5, 2024
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Meta has a new plan to keep kids safe online, but it's a missed opportunity for tech giants to work together
Meta, which owns social media platforms such as Instagram and Facebook, has revealed its plans for keeping kids safe online. It wants companies like Apple and Google, who run mobile phone app stores, to force parents to approve ...
Sep 5, 2024
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X vows to end harvesting of EU users' personal data to train its AI
Social network X has committed to stop its much-criticized harvesting of European users' personal data to train its artificial intelligence program, Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) said Wednesday.
Sep 4, 2024
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Does Google's monopoly impact search results? Tech titan faces reckoning
The founders of internet search and digital advertising giant Google wrote in a 1998 paper that goals for online advertising "do not always correspond" to useful internet search results.
Sep 2, 2024
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On the first day without X, many Brazilians say they feel disconnected from the world
The blocking of social media platform X in Brazil divided users and politicians over the legitimacy of the ban, and many Brazilians on Sunday had difficulty and doubts over navigating other social media in its absence.
Sep 1, 2024
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Brazil judge threatens to suspend X within 24 hours
Brazil's Supreme Court threatened on Wednesday to suspend social media platform X unless billionaire owner Elon Musk names a new legal representative for the company within 24 hours.
Aug 29, 2024
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Your own personalized 'SportsCenter'? ESPN working on that for upcoming streaming service
ESPN is looking at using artificial intelligence to create personalized "SportsCenter" shows for subscribers to its Flagship streaming service that is expected to launch in fall 2025, the network's chief executive said Wednesday.
Aug 29, 2024
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Data dump: Meta killed CrowdTangle. What does it mean for researchers, reporters?
In Brian C. Keegan's telling, the loss of tools like CrowdTangle and Pushshift—which allow researchers to study user behavior and how information is shared on social media—is like particle physicists one day waking up ...
Aug 28, 2024
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Elon Musk's Grok: A risky experiment in AI content moderation
A deluge of bizarre computer-generated images swept Elon Musk's social platform X last week—including violent, offensive and sexually suggestive content. In one, Trump piloted a helicopter as the World Trade Center buildings ...
Aug 27, 2024
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Fake online reviews and testimonials are a headache for small businesses. They hope the FTC can help
Online reviews and testimonials are a key way that small businesses can attract new customers and boost sales of products.
Aug 27, 2024
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Team develops AI-powered tool to detect hate speech in Southeast Asian languages
The internet, and particularly social media, have grown exponentially over the last decades. The nature of social media allows anyone to go online and create content they find interesting, whether appropriate or not. One ...
Aug 26, 2024
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A third of the world lacks internet connectivity—airborne communications stations could change that
About one-third of the global population, around 3 billion people, don't have access to the internet or have poor connections because of infrastructure limitations, economic disparities and geographic isolation.
Aug 26, 2024
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Telegram: The global rise of libertarian chat app
The boss of social media platform Telegram has been arrested in France, accused of allowing the sharing of illegal content.
Aug 26, 2024
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Boosting online safety through behavioral nudges: Delay, remind, and secure
In the face of rising cybersecurity threats, many internet users continue to neglect essential security actions, such as installing updates or changing compromised passwords. A new study led by Prof. Eyal Pe'er from the Federmann ...
Aug 26, 2024
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Privacy lawsuit over Chrome 'Sync' feature gets new life
A federal appeals court on Tuesday breathed new life into a lawsuit by Chrome users who say Google gathered data even though they did not "Sync" to their accounts.
Aug 21, 2024
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Report: Growing demand on dark web for AI abuse images
There is clear evidence of a growing demand for AI-generated images of child sexual abuse on the dark web, according to a new research report published by Anglia Ruskin University's International Policing and Public Protection ...
Aug 12, 2024
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X halts using personal data of Europeans to train AI
Social platform X said Friday it would work European regulators after agreeing to suspended its heavily criticised use of European users' personal data to train its artificial intelligence chatbot Grok.
Aug 9, 2024
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Survey respondents rated seeking out sexually explicit 'deepfakes' as more acceptable than creating or sharing them
While much attention on sexually explicit "deepfakes" has focused on celebrities, these non-consensual sexual images and videos generated with artificial intelligence harm people both in and out of the limelight. As text-to-image ...
Aug 9, 2024
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A judge has branded Google a monopolist, but AI may bring about quicker change in internet search
A federal judge has branded Google as a ruthless monopolist bent on suffocating its competitors. But how do you go about creating alternatives to a search engine that's synonymous with internet exploration?
Aug 7, 2024
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Social media algorithms are shrouded in secrecy—we're trying to change that
Over the past 20 years, social media has transformed how we communicate, share information and form social connections. A federal parliamentary committee is currently trying to come to grips with these changes, and work out ...
Aug 6, 2024
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