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The Mastodon Bump Is Now a Slump
Ruud Schilders, admin of mastodon.world, had about 100 people on the server before the Twitter acquisition in 2022. New signups saw…
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Meta’s Gruesome Content Broke Him. Now He Wants It to Pay
The case is a first from a content moderator outside the company’s home country. In May 2020, Meta (then Facebook)…
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How the US Could Ban TikTok in 7 Not-So-Easy Steps
Individual users would not have faced penalties for staying on TikTok, and internet service providers like Comcast and Verizon would…
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Fact-Checkers Are Scrambling to Fight Disinformation With AI
Spain’s regional elections are still nearly four months away, but Irene Larraz and her team at Newtral are already braced…
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Meta Eyes a Moderation Partner With ‘Traumatizing’ Working Conditions
Meta has cut ties with a subcontractor that provided moderators for its African markets, just weeks before the tech giant…
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The US Far Right Helped Stoke the Attack on Brazil’s Congress
“We met with all the platforms several times last year,” says Nina Santos, a researcher at the Brazilian National Institute…
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Trump’s Twitter Ban Was Unfair, but Not for the Reason You Think
In January 2021, after former US president Donald Trump tweeted in support of an insurrection on the Capitol, his account…
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A New Lawsuit Accuses Meta of Inflaming Civil War in Ethiopia
On November 3, 2021, Meareg Amare, a professor of chemistry at Bahir Dar University in Ethiopia, was gunned down outside…
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Elon Musk’s Twitter Is Making Meta Look Smart
It was the first day of April 2022, and I was sitting in a law firm’s midtown Manhattan conference room…
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The Twitter Files Revealed One Thing: Elon Musk Is Trapped
Moderating social media platforms is hard. Just ask the former Twitter employees whose decision to block a 2020 New York Post story about…
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