Collaborate Disseminate
It’s hard to get 42 states to agree on much. But a bipartisan group of attorneys general on Tuesday demanded that Congress require Surgeon General warning labels on social media apps to help curtail addiction and a mental health crisis among young adul… Continue reading A Surgeon General Warning Label Must Appear on Social Media Apps, 42 State Attorneys General Demand
The Wall Street Journal writes that Telegram “has become the premier internet platform to buy everything from hacked data and weapons to illicit drugs and child sexual abuse material, according to current and former law-enforcement officials and cyberc… Continue reading ‘Thousands” of Telegram Channels Sell Stolen Identities, Reports WSJ
Harvard’s school of public policy is publishing a Misinformation Review for peer-reviewed, scholarly articles promising “reliable, unbiased research on the prevalence, diffusion, and impact of misinformation worldwide.”
This week it reported that “Ac… Continue reading GPT-Fabricated Scientific Papers Found on Google Scholar by Misinformation Researchers
Following the arrest of its CEO Pavel Durov last month, the encrypted messaging service said it has disabled some “outdated” and “misused” features used by anonymous users. The Verge reports: The first changes to the app following his arrest in France … Continue reading Telegram Disables ‘Misused’ Features As CEO Faces Criminal Charges
In the days following Brazil’s shutdown of X, the decentralized social networking startup Bluesky added over 2 million new users, up from just half a million as of Friday. “This rapid growth led some users to encounter the occasional error that would s… Continue reading Bluesky Adds 2 Million New Users After Brazil’s X Ban
The Washington Post writes that Telegram’s “anything-goes approach” to its 950 million users “has also made it one of the internet’s largest havens for child predators, experts say….”
“Durov’s critics say his public idealism masks an opportunistic … Continue reading Washington Post Calls Telegram ‘a Haven for Free Speech – and Child Predators’
Threads now supports fediverse sharing for posts created via the Threads API, and it’s also making fediverse replies visible on other people’s posts.
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The Register’s Liam Proven reports: Microsoft’s in-house professional networking site is moving to Microsoft’s in-house Linux. This could mean that big changes are coming for the former CBL-Mariner distro. Ievgen Priadka’s post on the LinkedIn Engineer… Continue reading ‘Uncertainty’ Drives LinkedIn To Migrate From CentOS To Azure Linux
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Threads is deepening its ties to the fediverse, also known as the open social web, which powers services like X alternative Mastodon, Pixelfed, PeerTube, Flipboard and other apps. On Wednesday, Meta … Continue reading Threads Deepens Its Ties To the Fediverse
Snapchat has quietly launched a native iPad app today. Like Instagram and WhatsApp, the social network has been ignoring iPad users for over a decade.
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