Bots run various Twitter accounts and take responsibility for much of the misinformation spread on social media sites. But the first step was too long in coming, and the stakes feel too high for the product to continue in its current form. The best time for Twitter to have killed off trends was a year ago. The second-best time is today. Facebook has about 15, third-party moderators, not 30, And I should have noted that the moderation site in Arizona that I referenced has closed since I wrote about it.
Sorry for the errors. Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms. Trending up : Snapchat is partnering with Power the Polls to encourage users to volunteer as poll workers on Election Day. The move comes amid a looming poll worker shortages due to older people staying home because of COVID The company recently posted two job listings for the roles, but deleted them late Tuesday after media attention.
The President says a deal must be struck by September 15th. It remains unclear how the U. Trump believes that the U. Federal agents have homed in on a year-old in Massachusetts who may have played a large role in the July 15th Twitter hack that compromised the accounts of Barack Obama , Joe Biden, Jeff Bezos , and others.
They served the teen with a search warrant at the home where he lives with his parents. Facebook took down a small network of fake accounts associated with Russian operatives that had recruited US journalists to write articles on racial justice, the Biden-Harris campaign and President Trump. The company said it caught the network early, before it had a chance to build a large audience.
Facebook rolled out a series of changes ahead of the election in Myanmar on November 8th. The company invested in proactive detection technology to catch hate speech on the platform, and expanded its misinformation policy to include false news aimed at suppressing the vote.
The company was previously found by the United Nations to have contributed to ethnic violence in the country by allowing hate speech to spread unchecked. A regulatory vacuum in the online advertising market has allowed Google to dominate the industry by doing things that are prohibited in other parts of the economy, says antitrust scholar Dina Srinivasan.
Facebook and Google are hurting local communities by serving as vectors for misinformation while crippling local journalism, according to a new paper from progressive think tank the American Economic Liberties Project charges. You can read the full paper here. Facebook and Google are threatening to cut off news services in Australia if lawmakers pass a proposed law that would force both companies to negotiate with media companies and pay them for content that appears on their sites.
Facebook said it would block users from sharing news stories on its platforms if the law moves forward. My thoughts on this subject track pretty closely with Ben Thompson, who called the proposed law a shakedown.
The project is an extension of the exposure notification framework the companies launched earlier this year. Privacy activists are turning to the courts in Europe to get their GDPR complaints wrapped up in a timely manner.
The shift hints at growing disappointment with a privacy system that is still struggling to finalize a major investigation more than two years after the GDPR went into effect.
The tactic is emblematic of the ferocious competition for work in the US — and the shortcomings of the gig economy. Spencer Soper at Bloomberg explains how this works:. But the system has often been gamed by bots and internet trolls to spread false, hateful or misleading information.
In July, white nationalists pushed the anti-Semitic hashtag JewishPrivilege until it became a trend, and QAnon, a pro-Trump conspiracy group, made Wayfair, the furniture company, trend on Twitter with false claims that the company engaged in child trafficking. The episodes have led some Twitter employees to believe that the trends feature is not worth its liabilities. Over the past two years, current and former employees have argued that Twitter would never adequately deal with disinformation until it eradicated its trending list.
But in the wake of killings in Kenosha, Wis. Observers agree and recently started a campaign using the hashtag UntrendOctober, which asks Twitter to turn off its trending service through the election. Trending Topics will now include explanatory tweets and descriptions that show why an item is trending, Twitter said. Port Elizabeth. Cape Town. Spain Barcelona. Las Palmas. Sweden Gothenburg. Switzerland Geneva. Thailand Bangkok. Turkey Mersin. Ukraine Dnipropetrovsk. United Arab Emirates Sharjah.
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