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Imagining an internet without TikTok

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The threat of a TikTok ban has always been a little weird and complicated, drawing from a mixture of valid concerns and questionable moral panics about the ills of social media. With that in mind, let’s break down the implications of this new law, why it’s happening, and what the internet would look like if TikTok disappeared.

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Social media platforms still can’t stop mass shooting videos from going viral

Vox

Saturday’s racially motivated made-for-the-internet mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, went differently. This time, the shooter shared his appalling acts on Twitch, a livestreaming video app popular with gamers, where it was shut down much more quickly, less than two minutes after the violence began , according to the company.

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The Supreme Court showdown over social media “censorship,” explained

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. | Alex Wong/Getty Images A rogue federal court effectively put the Republican Party in charge of social media, and now the justices have to deal with this mess. Yet, while the Fifth Circuit’s approach to social media has been partisan and hackish, these cases raise genuinely difficult policy questions.

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2020: The year the internet didn’t crash

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But it could have been worse: the internet could have crashed, or not been there at all. Just look at how much of our lives shifted to the internet as a result of the pandemic. Imagine what things would have been like without the internet. Video conferencing numbers demonstrate the reality. I certainly wouldn’t have.

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Good internet service is still a luxury in the US

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Broadband has become increasingly important for everything from how we work to how we socialize to how we pray. Just over half of Americans making less than $30,000 a year have home broadband, a service that’s increasingly important for numerous aspects of life, from school to work to socializing. It’s also seemingly a luxury good.

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AI-generated video is here to awe and mislead

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These are among a series of demo videos of OpenAI’s Sora, revealed last week, which can turn a short text prompt into up to a minute of video. The artificial intelligence model is not yet open to the public, but OpenAI has released the videos, along with the prompts that generated them. It’s not there yet. That’s diffusion.

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Why some Palestinians believe social media companies are suppressing their posts

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Shadowbanning dates back to the early days of the internet. | Algospeak” is an evasion tactic for automated moderation on social media, where users create new words to use in place of keywords that might get picked up by AI -powered filters. Vox; MirageC/Getty Images Shadowbanning and the Israel-Hamas war, explained.

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