Social platforms have struggled to quickly remove deepfake porn depicting celebrities.
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A combination of gamified social platforms, distrust in media and government, unprecedented conspiratorial thinking, and even a bot influence campaign led us to this point. 
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YouTube now requires a label for some generative AI content. Animations made for kids are exempt.
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Two AI-altered clips of Hitler's 1939 Reichstag speech have racked up millions of views on X after being shared by a far-right troll.
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If the court backs provocative laws from Texas and Florida that limit social platforms’ ability to moderate content online, life could become radically different.
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Canada-based Sandvine has long sold its web-monitoring tech to authoritarian regimes. This week, the US sanctioned the company, severely limiting its ability to do business with American firms.
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X alleges that the Center for Countering Digital Hate cost it millions by showing that hate speech was spreading on the platform. In a hearing Thursday, a federal judge sounded skeptical of those claims.
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Meta’s automated systems made mistakes in removing sensitive content from the Israel-Hamas war, the company’s Oversight Board has ruled. It called on the company to put more human intervention in place.
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Millennials may have popularized Pinterest, but Gen Z is pushing the platform to new heights.
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A disinformation campaign led by a group linked to Russia's GRU is using images of celebrities like Taylor Swift, Beyoncé, Kim Kardashian, Justin Bieber, and Oprah to lambast Ukraine.
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Spotify is the world’s biggest music streamer but rarely turns a profit and just cut 17 percent of its workforce. Its business model looks increasingly precarious.
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Don't believe everything you read on social media.
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Hundreds of antiabortion ads on Meta’s platforms have been disseminated all over the world, new research finds.
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WIRED reporting uncovered a site that “nudifies” photos for a fee—and posts a feed appearing to show user uploads. They included photos of young girls and images seemingly taken of strangers.
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This week, US lawmakers began a new push to ban TikTok. At the heart of it is a lot of confusion about what the app is and what it means.
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Music streaming service Spotify has long complained that Apple’s App Store rules put unfair restrictions on its business. Today the European Commission agreed, fining Apple $2 billion.
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Senator Maggie Hassan wrote to Meta and other platforms asking what they're doing to protect girls after The New York Times found some parents posting suggestive images of their daughters online.
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Social media accounts, Kremlin-backed websites, and Telegram channels are all working in coordination to post false allegations about Alexei Navalny’s widow.
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Every time someone in the UK searched for child abuse material on Pornhub, a chatbot appeared and told them how to get help.
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The internet outage comes on top of a 10-month civil war which has forced nine million from their homes.
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Generative AI is only one way of creating deceptive and manipulated media—and experts are concerned that not enough attention is paid to “cheapfakes” and other forms of digital manipulation.
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Videos featuring Elijah Wood, Mike Tyson, and Priscilla Presley have been edited to push anti-Ukraine disinformation, according to Microsoft researchers.
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The board is going to look at two posts removed for violating Meta’s policies against sharing graphic imagery and depicting dangerous organizations and individuals.
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YouTube's revenue sharing for creators and other Google services are shut off or hard to access for people in Palestinian territories. That digital divide is under new scrutiny as war ravages Gaza.
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