Twitch now lets users opt out of Amazon’s use of content from their channels to train Amazon’s “generative AI content […]
Tag: Social Media
AI isn’t enough to protect social media communities from AI
AI’s biases Typical social media AI-based moderating systems use machine learning classifiers to analyze posts and identify and flag content […]
Reddit signals ominous upcoming “changes” for old.reddit.com
We don’t have a hard timeline right now, but we will work directly with the mods, developers, and communities that […]
Musk went to “war,” sought jail time for X ad boycotts—but case ends with a whimper
The joint statement confirmed that GARM will remain inactive as a result of the WFA’s settlement with X. No other […]
Big Tech accused of stonewalling European social media researchers
Researchers say TikTok, X, and Meta aren’t providing data they’re legally required to. In the final weeks before Romania’s presidential […]
Judge: Trump can’t deport researchers just for working in content moderation
This week, the Coalition for Independent Technology Research (CITR) won a key battle in its fight to reverse a visa-restriction […]
Disable autoplay and infinite scroll or risk massive fines, EU tells Meta
The European Union is ramping up pressure on Meta to make big changes to Facebook and Instagram after the European […]
TikTok users don’t have as much agency over their FYPs as they think
“We basically work from the assumption that if we want data, then we need to obtain it ourselves,” Sapiezynski said […]
Reddit will require you to log in to use old.reddit.com
Reddit will start requiring people to be logged into Reddit to use old.reddit.com. The new requirement will take effect “over […]
RIP social media. What comes next is messy.
As social media splinters, how can we keep the new online spaces from devolving into toxic pits of despair? Credit: […]
