Collaborate Disseminate
After Apple finally added support for RCS messages on iOS 18 yesterday, the GSMA is pushing its members to advance the messaging standard with interoperable end-to-end encryption.
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Meta is launching Instagram Teen Accounts to better protect teenagers on its social network, which is now used by over two billion users every month.
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After engaging with local regulators, Meta is planning to resume the training of its AI models using public Facebook and Instagram posts from adults in the UK.
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Microsoft is planning to change the Xbox social experience and bring back the friend requests from the Xbox 360 era.
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Meta has now admitted that it’s been using public data from adult Facebook and Instagram users in Australia to train its AI models, with no way to opt out.
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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Following the arrest of its CEO Pavel Durov last month, the encrypted messaging service said it has disabled some “outdated” and “misused” features used by anonymous users.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