Category: social media
Twitter fact checks Trump’s false tweets about election fraud
It’s finally happened: Twitter has fact-checked the president. The company added labels notifying its users that two of Donald Trump’s tweets have been fact-checked and contain false information about mail-in voting.In the tweets, Trump falsely claim… Source
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D-ID, the Israeli company that digitally de-identifies faces in videos and still images, raises $13 million
If only Facebook had been using the kind of technology that TechCrunch Startup Battlefield alumnus D-ID was pitching, it could have avoided exposing all of our faces to privacy destroying software services like Clearview AI. At least, that’s the pitch that D-ID’s founder and chief executive, Gil Perry, makes when…
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Facebook’s own research warned its algorithms exploit ‘divisiveness’
Facebook’s executives resisted internal efforts to make its platform less divisive, according to The Wall Street Journal. The company’s internal research found that its algorithms “exploit the human brain’s attraction to divisiveness,” and could make… Source
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First major GDPR decisions looming on Twitter and Facebook
The lead data regulator for much of big tech in Europe is moving inexorably towards issuing its first major cross-border GDPR decision — saying today it’s submitted a draft decision related to Twitter’s business to its fellow EU watchdogs for review. “The draft decision focusses on whether Twitter International Company…
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Twitter says disappearing ‘Fleets’ are reported less often than tweets
Twitter says one of its boldest experiments is showing some promise at reducing harassment. No, it’s not the company’s recent move to allow some users to limit replies on tweets, but its move into disappearing content.The company gave one of its firs… Source
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Facebook Messenger adds pop-ups to warn users about scams
Facebook wants to make it harder for scammers to trick unsuspecting users. The social network is launching a new feature for Messenger that will surface an in-app popup when a person is messaged by someone who might be trying to scam them or otherwis… Source
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