Meta Sets Final Date to Shut Down CrowdTangle Monitoring App
Meta announced that it’s shutting down CrowdTangle, the social media analytics tool acquired by Facebook in 2016, despite its widespread use by academic researchers and journalists. CrowdTangle stated...
View ArticleLawyers Explain Controversy Over Anti-TikTok Bill
A debate has raged over a bill that would ban the social media app TikTok unless it strips its links to China. There appears to be a broad consensus that the app is a national security risk, exposing...
View ArticleTikTok Urges Users to Call Congress After House Passes Bill Potentially...
TikTok has urged millions of its American users to call their senators to oppose a bill that could lead to a ban of the popular video-sharing app after the U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly...
View Article6 Social Media Platforms Issued With ‘Please Explain’ Notice on Extremist...
Australia’s online safety watchdog has required social media giants to explain how they are tackling terrorist and violent extremist materials on their platforms. On March 19, the eSafety commissioner...
View ArticleTikTok Fan Makes Death Threat Against GOP Senator Over App Legislation
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) warned of the danger of TikTok’s current ownership structure after a supporter of the Chinese-owned video-sharing app left a voicemail threatening to “shoot” him. In a March...
View ArticleUsers Outraged by Instagram and Threads Limiting Political Content Ahead of...
A number of users of popular social media platforms Instagram and Threads have expressed outrage at the decision to limit political content ahead of the 2024 presidential election by changing the...
View ArticleIn the Direction of Tyranny: Musk Takes Aim at Australian Fact Checkers on...
Billionaire Elon Musk has said government fact-checkers are a “giant leap in the direction of tyranny.” His comments come amid ongoing debate around Australian entrepreneur Dick Smith’s being...
View ArticleFacebook Secretly Wiretapped Competitors: Documents
Facebook secretly obtained proprietary data from competitors, including Snapchat, according to newly unsealed court documents. At the request of CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook officials developed a...
View Article‘Our Break up Is Overdue’: State Government Department Quits Elon Musk’s ‘X’
A Victorian state government department has quit X (formerly Twitter), claiming the breakup is “long overdue,” in a final post to the platform. The Department of Families, Fairness and Housing will be...
View ArticleParis Hilton Says She Doesn’t Want Her Children to Be Consumed by Social Media
Socialite Paris Hilton recently reflected on the negative impact that social media can have on young minds, noting that she hopes her children don’t grow up to be as addicted to smartphones and their...
View ArticleFBI Conducting ‘Knock and Talk’ Home Visits Over Social Media Posts, Say Users
Posting on social media could garner a knock on the door from an FBI agent, according to two users who said agents went to their homes seeking “conversations” over statements they made online. The FBI...
View ArticleMurthy v. Missouri Among Most Important First Amendment Cases of the Century:...
All eyes have been on the Supreme Court, where justices have recently heard oral arguments in Murthy v. Missouri. This landmark case is about defining appropriate government powers in relation to...
View ArticleGoogle and AAP Launch New Fact-Checking Partnership to Tackle ‘Misinformation’
Global tech giant Google and the Australian Associated Press (AAP) have launched a partnership to expand fact checks for “mis and disinformation” in Australia and New Zealand. AAP Fact Check’s capacity...
View ArticlePence’s Advocacy Group Launches Ad Campaign Pressuring Schumer on TikTok Bill
Advancing American Freedom (AAF), a political advocacy group founded by former Vice President Mike Pence, has launched an ad campaign pressuring Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) to bring...
View ArticleMost Services Restored to WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook After Brief Outage
Don’t worry, it’s not just you. Normal Service has been restored to most Meta services on WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, and Threads after an outage and issues reported by users across the globe over...
View ArticleMeta to Start Adding Labels for AI-Generated Video, Image, and Audio
Meta has updated its approach to handling manipulated media, requiring labels for artificial intelligence (AI)-generated content and only removing AI content that violates its policies, the company...
View ArticleBrazil Judge Opens Probe Into Elon Musk After He Vows to Defy X Court Order
A Brazilian Supreme Court justice has opened a probe into Elon Musk, owner of the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, for obstruction of justice after he challenged a court order...
View ArticleNew Bipartisan Data Privacy Bill Seeks to Put Americans in ‘Control of Their...
New legislation backed by Republican and Democrat lawmakers aims to create a single national data privacy standard to give Americans better control over how their private information is used. On April...
View ArticleElon Musk Says Congress Has Inquired About X’s Actions in Brazil
Social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, has received an inquiry from the U.S. House of Representatives regarding alleged illegal actions it took in Brazil, Elon Musk said on April 10. In a...
View ArticlePrime Minister Laments the ‘Misinformation’ on Social Media Amid Bondi Stabbing
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has labelled social media a “scourge” and raised concerns about misinformation circulating on social media following the Bondi stabbing rampage. In at least five media...
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