In a remote Zoom call, Biden’s new disinformation board director, Nina Jankowicz said she wants the power to edit your tweets in the same way as Wikipedia.
The Irish Data Protection Commission has fined Meta €265 million for a data scraping leak that exposed the personal information of EU Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders, Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel, and dozens of other EU officials.
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A man in Pakistan filed a petition against Tik-Tok to ban the popular app on moral ground for promoting vulgar and pornographic content. This app is quite popular all across the globe, especially among teenagers. The PeshawarHigh Court took the decision in favour of man and the app will be banned in Pakistan from Thursday.
Retweets are not endorsements, as many Twitter users frequently state in their bios. Can one be protected from criminal culpability by this disclaimer? Can retweeting, sharing or forwarding offensive posts attract criminal liability?
From the Twitter Files, a story about media, that also sketches the origins of Twitter’s surrender to the intelligence community:
A great Twitter purge is impending as Twitter CEO Elon Musk tweeted that they are planning to purge accounts that have had no activity at all for several years.
Twitter is promising to purge...
Predator Catchers Indianapolis (PCI) apparently lured Facebook Meta manager into a child sex sting and he was later fired after it was caught on tape.
The CCP has killed more people through its policies and deeds than any other government in history, including Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany, and the Mongol invasions that Genghis Khan began. And now, China is using social media to weaponize racial enmity in the United States.
In a Facebook ad, a woman with a face identical to actor Emma Watson’s face smiles coyly and bends down in front of the camera, appearing to initiate a sexual act. But the woman isn’t Watson, the “Harry Potter” star. The ad was part of a massive campaign this week for a deepfake app, which allows users to swap any face into any video of their choosing.
