Vox

DECEMBER 19, 2020

Social media companies like Facebook and YouTube have ramped up their policies against coronavirus misinformation and banned false claims about Covid-19 vaccines. While platforms tend to tout new policies designed to curb misinformation, they don’t always find and remove all the content that violates their rules.

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Vox

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

This is tremendous news — and misinformation about it is already circulating on social media. Much of that disarray could play out on social media. In preparation for a vaccine, social media platforms are fine-tuning their rules. That’s probably not a realistic expectation.”. Basically, it could be a very, very complicated mess.

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Vox

APRIL 19, 2021

Now, two senators are turning their attention to the vaccine misinformation superspreaders that push the bulk of conspiracy theories and lies on social media — and asking the social media giants to take more aggressive action. Open Sourced is made possible by Omidyar Network.

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GeekWire

JUNE 5, 2023

LinkedIn Photo) Washington STEM, a nonprofit focused on statewide STEM education and social change, named Lynne K. Founded in 2011, Seattle-based Washington STEM has 10 partner networks across the state, provides communities with investments and open-sourced tools, as well as advocating at the state and federal level.

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Phil Windley

JANUARY 7, 2020

Summary: Building an operating network takes more than protocols or even code. SSI has similar needs and meeting them won't happen just because we define nice protocols and write some open source code. Social systems that are enduring, scalable, and generative require coherence among participants. Governance.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

There’s also a big social component: You follow people, people follow you, and Clubhouse very much encourages these networks to form and grow. When I joined, I didn’t give Clubhouse access to my contacts; as has been my policy since childhood, only I may decide who enters my clubhouse. So informative.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 6, 2023

LGBTQ Tech LGBTQ Tech offers programs and resources to support LGBTQ+ communities and works to “educate organizations and policy makers on the unique needs LGBTQ+ individuals face when it comes to tech.” The organization also offers resources to members of the LGBTQ+ community and allies.

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Vox

APRIL 17, 2020

For years, Timothy Mackey has been researching the sale of opioids and illicit drugs online , tracking how dealers have used social media to push controlled substances. There’s no proven treatment for Covid-19, but plenty of social media accounts are nevertheless illegally pushing so-called cures or treatments.

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Vox

MARCH 1, 2021

Twitter, like other social media companies, is contending with vaccine misinformation as Covid-19 inoculations roll out. Like other social media companies, Twitter has banned harmful misinformation about the Covid-19 vaccines out of concern that it could make people more hesitant to get inoculated. million accounts” since then.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 17, 2023

As with all technology introductions, it’s important to have clear security policies, tools, processes, and training. This can occur through techniques like phishing, social engineering, or exploiting vulnerabilities in authentication mechanisms. These web application vulnerabilities can stem from codebases that use open-source code.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

On June 14, 2019, Taylor Swift posted a seemingly random string of text to her social media accounts: gxgjxkhdkdkydkhdkhfjvjfj!!! into YouTube pulls up another Taylor Swift music video, " The Man ," which came out nearly a year after the initial social post. But Swifties knew better. Like most hard things, security is a team effort.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

These moves, part of a broader push by the company, are significant because with nearly 3 billion users, Facebook is one of the most influential social media networks in the world. Open Sourced is made possible by Omidyar Network. Changing rules and enforcing rules are two different things.

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Vox

DECEMBER 9, 2020

On Wednesday, the US Federal Trade Commission and 48 US state attorneys general filed major lawsuits against Facebook that argue the social media giant is a monopoly whose anti-competitive practices harm Americans. No company should have this much unchecked power over our personal information and our social interactions.”.

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Vox

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Since the 2016 election, Facebook has sought to avoid intense and continued criticism over its policies on political ads. The frustration with Facebook’s handling of the election extends well beyond its political ad policy. Democrats and others have condemned the social media platform for enabling viral misinformation.

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Vox

MAY 5, 2021

Facebook’s oversight board ruled that the social media service can keep Trump off its platforms for the next six months, but that the service itself must make a final decision. For now, that means Trump is still barred from the social media platform, but that Facebook must soon decide if it will allow him to return.

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Vox

MARCH 16, 2021

Starting April 15, the company’s personalized ads policy is changing — as are users’ options to opt out of them, it seems. But TikTok’s new policy isn’t really any different from its social media rivals. It’s unclear if the company will add this ability once the new policy takes effect. “We

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Vox

JANUARY 6, 2021

Social media companies are grappling with the aftermath of the violence and insurrection that broke out on Wednesday at the US Capitol. Many prominent figures in tech and politics are now calling on the companies to suspend Trump’s social media accounts altogether because of his continued incitement of violence. in Washington, DC.

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Vox

JANUARY 21, 2021

The oversight board, a group of academics, journalists, and policy experts from around the world, was created to review Facebook’s content moderation decisions. Trump’s case could set a precedent for how the world’s largest social networks treat world leaders in the future. Open Sourced is made possible by Omidyar Network.

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Vox

JULY 29, 2020

As the leaders of the US tech giants are grilled by Congress, TikTok’s CEO aimed to set a new standard for transparency from social media companies. Ultimately, he said, TikTok would be a model for how other social media companies could be more transparent, a commitment that echoed recent calls for TikTok to become this very example.

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Vox

APRIL 15, 2021

Child safety experts worry that social media poses additional threats to young children, too. The public health experts and child advocacy groups who signed the letter also argue that social media built for kids could violate younger peoples’ privacy and create an increased risk of depression, among a wide variety of other potential harms.

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The Verge

AUGUST 27, 2021

It’s hard to come up with a good idea for a viral social media post. Facebook’s report details the top 20 most widely viewed posts on the network over the past three months. And I’ll allow that the Facebook pages of Texas-based daytime talk shows typically do not observe the zero-tolerance policy on plagiarism that journalists do.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 15, 2023

They need to be proactive and on the offensive when it comes to defending their networks, systems, and data. Cyber threat hunting is a proactive defense initiative in which security teams search through their networks to find and isolate advanced threats that evade existing security tools.

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Vox

JANUARY 12, 2021

Signal, once a niche messaging service for the privacy-minded, is currently the most downloaded app in the United States, unseating perennially popular social media and gaming apps. Previously, the number of new Signal users has rocketed up following social or political unrest. What makes Signal different?

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Vox

JANUARY 12, 2021

Parler, the largely unmoderated social network popular with conservatives, often found fans by lampooning Big Tech. Apple gave Parler 24 hours to implement stricter moderation policies, but after it came up short, Apple removed Parler from its App Store on January 9. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images.

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Vox

APRIL 26, 2022

Musk has talked a lot about the virtues of free speech, but he has no experience managing that on a social media platform where hundreds of millions of tweets are posted a day. This free speech slogan has earned Musk the support of many conservatives who feel that Twitter and other social media companies unfairly discriminate against them.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 15, 2022

Many models will decide that the most successful policy will be to label every transaction as non-fraudulent.”. To simulate the metaverse: The metaverse — virtual, 3D simulations of gaming, social, and business environments — will require a massive amount of content. a global management consulting firm.

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Vox

MARCH 26, 2021

At Thursday’s hearing on misinformation and social media, several members of Congress took aim at the company’s engagement algorithms, saying they spread misinformation in order to maximize profits. At least one member of Congress is suggesting that social media companies might need a special regulatory agency.

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GeekWire

MAY 10, 2024

Public Policy Champion for Innovation Award, presented by WTIA Winner: Washington State Sen. Joe Nguyen accepts the award for Public Policy Champion for Innovation in a taped message at the GeekWire Awards. A year later, it’s clear that open source models are playing an active role in advancing the research and engineering of AI.”

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Vox

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

The organization has warned people that posting images of their vaccine cards on social media — in order to celebrate their inoculation — is only making things worse. These schemes are showing up in different corners of the internet, including on eBay, in Google ads, and on social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter.

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Vox

JANUARY 20, 2021

Here are some of the most pervasive election conspiracy theories and false claims being shared on social media around Inauguration Day. That these theories continue to spread on social media impacts all of us, regardless of whether or not we believe them. We live in a social world, and people’s beliefs do have consequences.”

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The Verge

MAY 4, 2021

But Shopify doesn’t really fit into the same category of laws as Twitter or Facebook or other social media platforms — so it has a different set of moderation challenges, and it’s worth thinking about whether the enterprise software that powers online stores should have to meet the same moderation standards as TikTok or YouTube. Is it proud?

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Phil Windley

MARCH 13, 2020

Summary: The Sovrin Identity Metasystem is based on a sophisticated stack of protocols, implemented in open-source code, backed and supported by hundreds of organizations, large and small, around the world. The Sovrin Network is a metasystem for building identity systems. This makes the network resistant to censorship.

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Vox

APRIL 6, 2021

Basically, for every 10,000 views on its social network — or at least during the last quarter of 2020 — about 16 to 18 of those views are of videos that violate YouTube’s rules, which currently forbid everything from hate speech to medical misinformation about Covid-19 to spam. Open Sourced is made possible by Omidyar Network.

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Vox

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Ultimately, the platform is facing the same challenges of polarization and misinformation as other social networks like Facebook and Twitter. The company has long aspired to be a social network where civility and neighborliness prevail; there’s even a guide to being respectful to your neighbors in the Nextdoor help center.

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Vox

JULY 22, 2020

The move is a significant acknowledgment that the algorithms driving two of the most influential social media platforms can be discriminatory. Instagram will create an “equity team” charged with tasks like analyzing the enforcement of its harassment policies and studying its algorithms for racial bias, the Wall Street Journal reports.

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Vox

MARCH 9, 2021

After years of allowing anti-vaccine groups and pages to rack up followers on its social network, Facebook announced last month that it wants to lead the world’s largest Covid-19 inoculation information campaign and encourage its users to get vaccinated.

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Vox

JULY 3, 2023

In contrast, AI covers a vast field ranging from social media algorithms to national security to advanced medical diagnostics. We should prioritize targeted regulation for specific applications — recognizing that each domain comes with its own set of ethical dilemmas and policy challenges Third, addressing data privacy reform is essential.

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