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Imagine scrolling through social media or playing an online game, only to be interrupted by insulting and harassing comments. What if an artificial intelligence (AI) tool stepped in to remove the abuse before you even […]

Is Brazil’s shutdown of Elon Musk’s X a drastic but necessary move in the global fight against disinformation, or pure censorship?This article was originally published on this website.

Australia will ban children from using social media with a minimum age limit as high as 16, the prime minister said Tuesday, vowing to get kids off their devices and “onto the footy fields”.This article […]

How do online crowds form, grow and behave? How do they wield influence? What distinguishes desirable crowd activism from mob harassment?This article was originally published on this website.

Telegram founder and chief executive Pavel Durov on Friday announced a range of new features aimed at combating illicit content, bots and scammers, a week after he was arrested and charged by French authorities over […]

Millions of Brazilians, including the president, have flocked to social media platforms such as Threads or Bluesky, where Portuguese has become the most spoken language in the few days since Elon Musk’s X was shut […]

Meta, which owns social media platforms such as Instagram and Facebook, has revealed its plans for keeping kids safe online. It wants companies like Apple and Google, who run mobile phone app stores, to force […]

Elon Musk’s woes are hardly limited to Brazil as he now risks possible EU sanctions in the coming months for allegedly breaking new content rules.This article was originally published on this website.

Social network X has committed to stop its much-criticized harvesting of European users’ personal data to train its artificial intelligence program, Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) said Wednesday.This article was originally published on this website.

The founders of internet search and digital advertising giant Google wrote in a 1998 paper that goals for online advertising “do not always correspond” to useful internet search results.This article was originally published on this […]