Meta Offers A Glimpse Into the Black Box of AI Ranking
Meta is releasing a series of new tools and insights offering everyday users one of the clearest looks yet into how various AI systems serve and recommend stuff on Facebook…
Apple Warns the UK’s Online Safety Bill Threatens Citizens’ Privacy and Security
Apple has joined WhatsApp, Signal, and other messaging companies, by raising concerns that end-to-end encryption would be threatened if the United Kingdom passes the “Online Safety Bill.” The bill moved…
Facebook Lets Parents See Who Their Kids Are Talking to Messenger
Meta has unveiled a suite of new safety tools intended to give parents more oversight of their teen’s activity on Messenger and Instagram DMs. Starting today, parents and guardians can…
Meta Tells Canada: No News for You!
Meta is sticking to its guns—the social networking giant says it will follow through with its threat to cut off Canadians’ access to news on Facebook and Instagram following the…
Facebook vows to restrict news access in Canada
Meta says it will remove access to news content on Facebook and Instagram for users in Canada after the nation’s lawmakers passed legislation designed to force internet giants that also…
Website Owners Say Traffic Is Plummeting After a Facebook Algorithm Change
Making matters worse, Chappell, Madison 365’s editor, told Gizmodo that the performance of content is varying noticeably based on the subject matter. He said Meta isn’t just deciding whether or…
Meta to Help People Craft More Zuck Deepfakes With ‘Voicebox’ AI
According to Meta, Voicebox can take an audio sample as short as two seconds long and then match that audio style for text-to-speech generation. If true, it’s more sophisticated than…
Most Social Sites Suck at Protecting LGBTQ Users, But Twitter Is the Worst
The report links to a spreadsheet documenting more than two dozen news stories that linked far-right online rhetoric to real-world threats, harassment, and violence in the first few months of…
Jack Dorsey Says Indian Officials Raided Twitter Employees’ Homes
Chandrasekhar said the posts in question during the time of 2021 farmers protest contained “a lot of misinformation,” and reports of genocide that were “definitely fake.” International human rights groups…
Instagram Bans, Unbans Facebook Critic, and It Won’t Say Why
What happened exactly? Over the weekend, the RFOB published a seven-post “spotlight” thread with the title, “Why Facebook is Threatening the Press.” The posts were responding directly to Meta’s recent…