Major moderation failures by X and Meta highlight election year risks
Major content moderation failures by both X and Meta are serving to underline the risks of both deliberate disinformation and…
Major content moderation failures by both X and Meta are serving to underline the risks of both deliberate disinformation and…
Meta is blocking news links in Canada, as it did previously in Australia, following the introduction of new legislation. The…
On the heels of the US House Judiciary Committee antitrust hearing looking into big tech and also the European Commission…
Twitter has announced that it has banned more than 7,000 QAnon accounts, which were being used to threaten and harass…
After placing one of President Trump’s tweets behind a warning that it glorifies violence, Twitter acts again to do the…
Three tech giants had to take action in response to presidential election hoaxes. This included Twitter placing a warning on…
Update: The White House Twitter account retweeted the tweet placed behind a warning, and Twitter has now placed the same…
President Trump has threatened to issue an executive order targeting social networks later today. The move follows Twitter applying a…
It’s looking increasingly likely that one of the long-term impacts of the coronavirus crisis will be a record number of people…
We learned last month that Apple was tricked into releasing personal data to hackers, after they posed as law enforcement…
A growing number of tech giants are applying Russian sanctions of the digital kind in response to the unprovoked attack…
The vice-chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee has suggested that regulation of the tech industry is now inevitable. Sen. Mark…
Update: Jack Dorsey is live-tweeting his opening statement as he gives it … Facebook’s COO and Twitter’s CEO will be…
My conclusion in my Skeptic’s Apple Watch diary series was that the device didn’t really have a unique selling-point to me,…
Update: A Facebook spokesperson has issued a statement to 9to5Mac, saying “We don’t comment on rumors or speculation.” Facebook is…
Twitter appears to be working on supporting encrypted direct messages, with a feature currently labelled Secret Conversations. A computer science…
A state-sponsored disinformation campaign identified on Facebook and Twitter is significantly bigger than it first appeared, says a new report…
Update: Affected posts have now been restored. See end of post for explanation. Facebook has seemingly removed all tweets that…
More than a dozen tech giants are meeting today to discuss countermeasures for state-sponsored disinformation campaigns on their platforms during…
Twitter and Facebook have announced that they have removed hundreds of fake accounts engaged in ‘coordinated manipulation’ …
Facebook came under massive fire for first allowing Cambridge Analytica to hoover up user data from the platform, and second…
Apple wants the third-party app marketplace for the upcoming Apple Watch to be a hit just like on the iPhone,…
As we predicted, Apple’s Black Friday deals take the form of gift cards rather than discounts. The Australian store is…
YouTube Capture, which is essentially a dedicated video camera app by Google, delivered version 2.0 today bringing with it an…