Zuckerberg, inspired by Musk, ditches fact checking for Community Notes - The Verge

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Meta abandons fact-checking on Facebook and Instagram in favor of Community Notes

Moderation will now be crowdsourced to Meta’s users.

#socialnetwork #facebook

#Telegram Hands U.S. Authorities Data on Thousands of Users

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Telegram Hands U.S. Authorities Data on Thousands of Users

The number of data requests fulfilled by Telegram skyrocketed, with the company providing data to U.S. authorities on 2,253 users last year.

Great talk by [@Mer__edith](

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Meredith Whittaker (@Mer__edith@mastodon.world)

1.17K Posts, 312 Following, 32.6K Followers · President of @signalapp

) at #38C3 : "Feelings are Facts: Love, Privacy, and the Politics of Intellectual Shame" It is so refreshing to hear these perspectives on tech, it is connecting a lot of questions I didn't realize I needed to connect.

Feelings are Facts: Love, Privacy, and the Politics of Intellectual Shame

A debut of new research and analysis, focused on emotions and the affective register—love! shame! intimacy! What happens when we put lov...

Looking into Wikipedia edits for a scholar who has a very very positive WP page. Turns out one WP account has done 90% of the writing for the page, plus only edited this scholar's wife page and someone very likely from their wife family. Apparently not everyone is familiar with WP conflict of interest policy 🤷‍♂️

Pornhub Is Now Blocked In Almost All of the U.S. South #censorship

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Pornhub Is Now Blocked In Almost All of the U.S. South

As of today, three more states join the list of 17 that can't access Pornhub because of age verification laws.

Brazil Bans X from Using Children to Power Its AI

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Brazil Bans X from Using Children to Power Its AI

This week, Brazil’s National Data Protection Authority banned the social media platform X, formerly Twitter, from using the personal data of its ...

Why ‘open’ AI systems are actually closed, and why this matters https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08141-1 #ai

The application for the Fourth Cyber Investigations Training Course by @npub15xkc...n4dt is online, deadline is February 1st

Digital Threats: Fourth Cyber Investigations Training Course

Reporters from around the world will learn how to investigate the digital environment in order to understand and expose disinformation, online atta...

'No Civilians. Everyone's a Terrorist': IDF Soldiers Expose Arbitrary Killings and Rampant Lawlessness in Gaza's Netzarim Corridor https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-12-18/ty-article-magazine/.premium/idf-soldiers-expose-arbitrary-killings-and-rampant-lawlessness-in-gazas-netzarim-corridor/00000193-da7f-de86-a9f3-fefff2e50000?lts=1734598380070