When suspicion began to mount that the young prosecutor, Yujin Choi, might have faked her sexual misconduct allegations against a Denver District Attorney's Office colleague, investigators asked to examine Choi's…
Meta’s Instagram has been blocking LGBTQ-related hashtags for months, according to reporting by User Mag. This was done under the company’s “sensitive content” policy as an attempt to restrict “sexually…
Despite its new plan to loosen content moderation across its apps, Meta says its policies differ for internal and external discussion. Source
Meta rolled out a number of changes to its “Hateful Conduct” policy Tuesday as part of a sweeping overhaul of its approach toward content moderation. Source
The social media platform changed its policies in September and began responding to law enforcement requests at significantly higher rates than it had previously. Source
Meta announced today that it's ending the third-party fact-checking program it introduced in 2016, and will rely instead on a Community Notes approach similar to what's used on Elon Musk's…
In a video posted to his Facebook page on Tuesday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the platform is getting rid of its fact-checkers."It's time to get back to our…
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge I have to commend Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his new policy chief Joel Kaplan on their timing. It’s not hugely surprising that, as…
Google quietly updated its policies to remove ad scheduling for campaigns using Smart Bidding, raising eyebrows across the paid search community. Ad scheduling lets advertisers control when their ads show,…
As a part of a significant overhaul of its content moderation policies announced on Tuesday, Meta admitted that its approach to limiting political content across its platforms had been “pretty…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced a major shift in the company's approach to moderation and speech. Meta is ditching its fact-checking program and moving to an X-style Community Notes…
Meta says it’s seen the shift to Community Notes ‘work on X.’ | Image: The Verge Facebook, Instagram, and Threads are ditching third-party fact-checkers in favor of a Community Notes…
Following Telegram CEO Pavel Durov's arrest over a failure to fight crime on the platform, the privacy policy shifted significantly. Instead of pledging to only hand over user data in…
The Waymo self-driving company says it has fixed a problem that caused a car to repeatedly circle a parking lot for about five minutes while its rider was trying to…
Google will update its cryptocurrency and related products policy this month, refining the rules for advertising crypto-related services in the United Kingdom. As the crypto industry grows, clearer advertising rules…
A Bright Horizons childcare center on the Amazon headquarters campus in the Denny Triangle neighborhood of Seattle. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Amazon’s mandate to bring corporate and tech employees…
Deaton contends some regulatory actions appear driven by political agendas rather than grounded in sound policy, echoing industry concerns. Source
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The US government finally got its metaphorical hands on Do Hyeong Kwon, the 33-year-old Korean national who built a financial empire on the cryptocurrency Luna and the "stablecoin" TerraUSD, only…
Credit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority It appears Xiaomi has changed its bootloader unlocking policy. The new policy limits users to one unlock on one device each year. Years…