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The UK Is Poised to Force a Bad Law on the Internet
Plenty of other ideas have also been tacked onto the bill. The current text includes age checks for porn sites…
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Meta Isn’t Enforcing Its Own Political Ads Policy, While the 2024 US Election Looms
“America’s education system has been hijacked by one side,” Marissa Streit, PragerU’s CEO, told Time earlier this month. Some of…
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Meta’s News Block Causes Chaos as Canada Burns
The surrounding Charlotte County covers 1,323 square miles of territory—about twice the area of Greater London, and four times the…
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Facebook’s 2024 Election Policy May Hinge on a Cambodian Video
The speed of the prime minister’s about turn, and his unwillingness to act against Facebook, show how important the platform…
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This Psychologist Wants To Vaccinate You Against Fake News
For Sander van der Linden, misinformation is personal. As a child in the Netherlands, the University of Cambridge social psychologist…
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Norway Took On Meta’s Surveillance Ads and Won | WIRED
When you watch a video on Instagram, the app’s algorithms are also watching you. As you scroll, they are hoovering…
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Meta’s Election Research Opens More Questions Than It Answers
In the lead-up to the 2020 presidential election, Meta set out to conduct a series of ambitious studies on the…
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Meta Just Proved People Hate Chronological Feeds
For three months in late 2020, nearly 7,200 US adults on Facebook and 8,800 on Instagram received a radically different…
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It’s Getting Harder for the Government to Secretly Flag Your Social Posts
Wrote Doughty, “Defendants ‘significantly encouraged’ the social-media companies to such extent that the decisions (of the companies) should be deemed…
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A Leaked Memo Shows TikTok Knows It Has a Labor Problem
Last month, a court in Kenya issued a landmark ruling against Meta, owner of Facebook and Instagram. The US tech…
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