Listen15 minCommentGift ShareIn February 2019, not long before India’s general election, a pair of Facebook employees set up a dummy account to better understand the experience of a new user in the company’s largest market. They made a profile of a 21-year-old woman, a resident of North India, and began to track what Facebook showed her.At first, her feed filled with soft-core porn and other, more harmless, fare. Then violence flared in Kashmir, the site of a long-running territorial dispute between India and Pakistan. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, campaigning for reelection as a...…Listen15 minCommentGift ShareIn February 2019, not long before India’s general election, a pair of Facebook employees set up a dummy account to better understand the experience of a new user in the company’s largest market. They made a profile of a 21-year-old woman, a resident of North India, and began to track what Facebook showed her.At first, her feed filled with soft-core porn and other, more harmless, fare. Then violence flared in Kashmir, the site of a long-running territorial dispute between India and Pakistan. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, campaigning for reelection as a...WW…

This article was published more than 1 year agoCommentGift Share released data on Tuesday arguing that it is getting better at spotting and removing videos that break its rules against disinformation, hate speech and other banned content.The Google-owned video service said 0.16 percent to 0.18 percent of all the video views on its platform during the fourth quarter of 2020 were on content that broke its rules. That’s down 70 percent from the same period in 2017, the year the company began tracking it.But because of the immense scale of YouTube — of video are watched on the site every...…This article was published more than 1 year agoCommentGift Share released data on Tuesday arguing that it is getting better at spotting and removing videos that break its rules against disinformation, hate speech and other banned content.The Google-owned video service said 0.16 percent to 0.18 percent of all the video views on its platform during the fourth quarter of 2020 were on content that broke its rules. That’s down 70 percent from the same period in 2017, the year the company began tracking it.But because of the immense scale of YouTube — of video are watched on the site every...WW…

Gift ShareHouse lawmakers from both sides of the aisle on Thursday interrogated the chief executives of Google, Facebook and Twitter, escalating their calls for swift regulation of the tech industry.During the more than five-hour hearing, lawmakers in five-minute intervals called out executives on a of issues including extremism, misinformation, cyberbullying, climate change and the coronavirus. Many of the politicians attempted to force the chief executives to answer “yes” or “no,” cutting them off if they tried to explain how “nuanced” those issues are.Show moreFive and a half grueling...…Gift ShareHouse lawmakers from both sides of the aisle on Thursday interrogated the chief executives of Google, Facebook and Twitter, escalating their calls for swift regulation of the tech industry.During the more than five-hour hearing, lawmakers in five-minute intervals called out executives on a of issues including extremism, misinformation, cyberbullying, climate change and the coronavirus. Many of the politicians attempted to force the chief executives to answer “yes” or “no,” cutting them off if they tried to explain how “nuanced” those issues are.Show moreFive and a half grueling...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoGift ShareA Washington nonprofit group Sunday, demanding that it remove , a chat and social media app, from its app store for failing to crack down on conversation in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 attack on the The suit amounts to a pressure tactic to get Apple to act against Telegram as it already has against , a social media site that swelled with calls for ahead of the Capitol siege, according to researchers. both have booted Parler from their app stores because of its lax moderation policies, and withdrew support as well, disabling last...…This article was published more than 2 years agoGift ShareA Washington nonprofit group Sunday, demanding that it remove , a chat and social media app, from its app store for failing to crack down on conversation in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 attack on the The suit amounts to a pressure tactic to get Apple to act against Telegram as it already has against , a social media site that swelled with calls for ahead of the Capitol siege, according to researchers. both have booted Parler from their app stores because of its lax moderation policies, and withdrew support as well, disabling last...WW…