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Editorial: Social media companies must curtail the spread of misinformation

About 500 hours of video gets uploaded to YouTube every minute. The online video-sharing platform houses more than 800 million videos and is the second most visited site in the world, with 2.5 billion active monthly users.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Word war: In Russia-Ukraine war, information became a weapon

In the year since Russia invaded Ukraine, disinformation and propaganda have emerged as key weapons in the Kremlin's arsenal

The Independent UK

Supreme Court sounds split on whether social media firms can be sued for aiding terrorists

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court justices sounded split Wednesday over whether social media firms can be sued and potentially held liable for aiding international terrorists.

Los Angeles Times

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Former Facebook whistleblower advocates for better treatment of content moderators

In tonight's edition: South Africa plants seeds for a greener energy sector by announcing tax breaks for investors in clean power. Also, Namibia welcomes US First Lady Jill Biden as she arrives in Africa for a five-day tour. And we speak to a former Facebook content moderator who blew the…

France 24

UNESCO chief urges tougher regulation of social media

The United Nations’ educational, scientific and cultural agency chief is urging a global conversation on the regulation of social media and its role in the spread of misinformation in order to make the internet a safer place

The Independent UK

Meta has profited from more than 60 ads using homophobic slur ‘groomer’ since December

Facebook and Instagram’s parent company Meta has profited from more than 60 ads featuring the anti-LGBTQ slur “groomer” since December, according to a new report from Media Matters for America.

Tribune News Service

JD Sports to build work campus in Bury including creche, sports arena and restaurant to rival ‘Facebook, Google and Nike’

The sports and leisure retailer said the new campus would lead to hundreds of new jobs being created

Manchester Evening News

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Biden Promised a Return to 'Rule of Law' Governance. His Record Says Differently.

Like his predecessors, the current president ignores the law when it suits him.

Reason

Supreme Court weighs tech giants' liability in terror case

The Supreme Court will be weighing whether Facebook, Twitter and YouTube can be held responsible for a 2017 terrorist attack on a nightclub in Turkey

The Independent UK

Surge in paedophiles using virtual reality tech in child abuse image crime in UK

Police recorded 30,925 offences involving obscene images of children in 2021/22, the highest number ever logged by forces in England and Wales

The Independent UK

Tasmanian Hemp Association fights Facebook ban after clarifying 'prohibited' products

The government-funded Tasmanian Hemp Association was initially banned from advertising on the platform, which they say happens to producers across the globe due to strict algorithms, before it successfully argued its case.

ABC News

Virtual reality tech appearing in child abuse image crime reports for first time

Police recorded 30,925 offences involving obscene images of children in 2021/22, the highest number ever logged by forces in England and Wales.

The Independent UK

Big Tech goes back to moving fast and breaking things

Thanks to financial woes and an A.I. arms race, it’s back to the future.

Fortune

Five emerging trends that could change our lives online

The way we live our lives online is rapidly changing. Artificial intelligence (AI), virtual reality and innovations such as blockchain – a kind of digital record for transactions — are set to transform the online world, affecting everything from social media to how people and businesses make money from their…

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The Independent UK

Trump hits out at ‘boring’ Twitter and Facebook and dismisses his return

‘I think I get a very strong word out on Truth, and there’s something very beautiful about it,’ Trump says

Chronicle Live

Longbenton couple who found puppy had destroyed their cup final tickets to get new ones from Wembley

Alan Carling and his wife Jessica returned home to find 11-month-old Rudy had shredded their Wembley tickets

Fortune

Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse ambitions could get a big boost as Tencent discusses selling the Meta Quest 2 headset in China

Facebook has been blocked in the country for 14 years.

The Independent UK

How a Supreme Court case against Google could upend the internet

The family of a 2015 terror attack victim will try to prove that YouTube’s algorithm aided Islamic State in spreading its propaganda, in a case that could transform the internet.

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Chicago Sun-Times

Section 230: the rule before the Supreme Court that made the modern internet, explained

The justices are hearing arguments Tuesday about whether the family of an ISIS terrorism victim from California can sue Google, whose YouTube algorithms, they say, helped extremists spread their message and attract recruits.

Fortune

Leaders: Buying Meta’s blue tick won’t buy you respect

When the entry requirement for verification is a monthly fee, instead of actual influence, the badge is no longer an indicator of anything other than that you paid for it.

Tribune News Service

Silicon Valley tech layoffs: Why so many jobs were slashed, and who’s hiring amid fierce competition?

A growing barrage of technology industry layoffs means slim pickings for job-seeking software engineers and other tech workers amid a fiercely competitive Bay Area job market that has tipped from bountiful to brutal.

The Independent UK

What is Section 230, the rule that made the modern internet?

Twenty-six words tucked into a 1996 law overhauling telecommunications have allowed companies like Facebook, Twitter and Google to grow into the giants they are today

Fortune

Here's why Bitcoiners are flocking to Nostr

Exactly how high is the ceiling for the decentralized social network?

The Guardian - US

How two supreme court battles could reshape the rules of the internet

Lawsuits brought by families of terrorist attack victims will consider whether companies are responsible for users’ content

The Independent UK

High court takes 1st look at law that shields internet firms

The Supreme Court is taking up its first case about a federal law that is credited with helping create the modern internet

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