How Spammers, Scammers and Creators Leverage AI-Generated Images on Facebook for Audience Growth
Text-to-image models such as DALL-E and Midjourney can produce impressive, at times even photorealistic, images. Past research by the Stanford Internet Observatory has covered the very serious implications for child safety and nonconsensual intimate imagery. Researchers and policymakers have expressed fears that they could be misused to inject false information into political discourse. In a new preprint …
Daring Fireball: Among the Companies With the Worst Reputations in America: Twitter, Facebook, and TikTok
Axios: This survey is the result of a partnership between Axios and Harris Poll to gauge the reputation of the most visible brands in America, based on 20 years of Harris Poll research. I’m not as interested in the top of the list as the bottom. Here are the companies with the worst reputations, starting …
NJ Man Convicted of Breaking into Home, Murdering 3 over a Facebook Post
NJ Man Convicted of Breaking into Home, Murdering 3 over a Facebook Post | PEOPLE.com Skip to content Top Navigation Close this dialog window Explore PEOPLE.com Close this dialog window Share & More Close this dialog window View image N.J. Man Convicted of Breaking into Home, Murdering 2 Kids and Woman over Facebook Post this …
Trump suspended from Facebook for 2 years
”We know that any penalty we apply — or choose not to apply — will be controversial,” said Nick Clegg, Facebook’s vice president of global affairs, in the post. “There are many people who believe it was not appropriate for a private company like Facebook to suspend an outgoing President from its platform, and many …
Facebook ends political speech exception amid Oversight Board Trump recommendations
In 2018, Zuckerberg — under immense political pressure over the company’s content moderation practices — presented the idea for an independent body that would oversee controversial decisions made by the social network. The idea was to put a check on the social network’s power, which was being roundly criticized by government officials, academics and the …
WhatsApp Sues Indian Government Over Encryption-Breaking Surveillance Laws
Topline Facebook-owned messaging app WhatsApp sued the Indian government Wednesday in an attempt to block new regulations that would force it to remove encryption for all users and record messages sent on the platform in a “traceable” database. WhatsApp is taking the Indian government to court over new internet laws. SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images …
Facebook, Twitter told to open databases in Russia by July -Ifax
Facebook (FB.O), Twitter (TWTR.N) and other social networks must have databases of Russian users on Russian territory by July 1 or face fines, the Interfax news agency cited communications regulator Roskomnadzor as saying on Wednesday. Russia is considering legislation that would force foreign technology companies to open offices in Russia or face penalties such as …
Singapore rejects Delhi chief’s claims about new Covid-19 variant
People walk on their lunch break at the Raffles Place financial business district in Singapore on May 5, 2021. Roslan Rahman | AFP | Getty Images SINGAPORE — Singapore has ordered Facebook, Twitter and a local publisher to correct what it says is a false statement circulating that implies a new coronavirus variant originated in …