Twitter, others slip on removing hate speech, EU review says
Twitter took longer to review hateful content and removed less of it in 2022 compared with the previous year, according to European Union data released Thursday.
Nov 24, 2022
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Elon Musk's buyout of Twitter has placed its user-generated archives in danger
Twitter is in disarray. This is troubling for a platform that comprises no small part of the historical record of today.
Nov 23, 2022
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Web giants to submit user data as EU law comes into effect
A new EU law imposing stricter online regulation comes into effect Wednesday and the biggest platforms like Facebook and Google will have until February 17 to reveal their user numbers.
Nov 15, 2022
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After FTX collapse, cryptocurrency sector fights back
The failure of the FTX platform has undermined investor confidence and threatened the young cryptocurrency sector, pushing its main players to mobilize to save it.
Nov 15, 2022
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It's hard to imagine better social media alternatives, but Scuttlebutt shows change is possible
Last week, the U.S. government released six principles for reforming Big Tech. It's the latest example of growing efforts to regulate the handful of companies with enormous influence over the internet. But while there's a ...
Sep 15, 2022
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Google has a plan to stare down fake news on Ukrainian refugees in Europe
Alphabet Inc.'s Google is hoping an ad campaign can help prevent misinformation percolating about Ukrainian refugees who fled Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion from shaping public opinion.
Sep 5, 2022
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Consumer & Gadgets
Twitter experiences outage Thursday, thousands of users around the world report
Twitter appears to be returning from a global outage after thousands of users around the world reported early Thursday that the social media platform was unavailable to them.
Jul 14, 2022
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US funds software for Russians to slip past censors
A US-backed campaign is giving Russians access to anti-censor software to dodge Moscow's crackdown on dissent against its invasion of Ukraine, involved groups told AFP.
Jul 3, 2022
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Meta's Quest VR gear to let people 'hang out' in metaverse
Meta on Friday said that it is adding the ability to easily socialize in virtual reality with an update to its Quest 2 headsets in another step toward the metaverse.
Jun 11, 2022
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Blockchains uphold data platform cooperation
Researchers at Aalto University have studied how the market for data could be made to function technically, especially in the world of the Internet of Things (IoT).
May 23, 2022
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