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Twitter has deleted @TwitterSafety's tweets and a webpage detailing its new policy to prevent accounts from promoting other social media platforms (Molly White/@molly0xfff)
Molly White / @molly0xfff: Twitter has deleted @TwitterSafety’s tweets and a webpage detailing its new policy to prevent accounts from…
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Twitter will remove accounts made to "promote other social platforms" and content that has links or usernames to Facebook, Mastodon, and others (@twittersupport)
@twittersupport: Twitter will remove accounts made to “promote other social platforms” and content that has links or usernames to Facebook,…
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A profile of iNaturalist, a not-for-profit social network that uses an ML algorithm to help users identify plants and animals, driving cooperation and consensus (Amy Harmon/New York Times)
Amy Harmon / New York Times: A profile of iNaturalist, a not-for-profit social network that uses an ML algorithm to…
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Tech industry groups that include Meta and Google ask SCOTUS to overturn the Texas social media content moderation law, arguing it violates the First Amendment (Greg Stohr/Bloomberg)
Greg Stohr / Bloomberg: Tech industry groups that include Meta and Google ask SCOTUS to overturn the Texas social media…
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US lawmakers introduce legislation that aims to ban TikTok or any social media company in, or under the influence of, China, Russia, and other US adversaries (Lauren Feiner/CNBC)
Lauren Feiner / CNBC: US lawmakers introduce legislation that aims to ban TikTok or any social media company in, or…
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Responding to the "Twitter Files", Jack Dorsey defends against attacks on Twitter staff, advocates for an open social media protocol, commits $1M/year to Signal (Jack Dorsey/Revue)
Jack Dorsey / Revue: Responding to the “Twitter Files”, Jack Dorsey defends against attacks on Twitter staff, advocates for an…
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How conservatives redefined free speech in the social media era, using the First Amendment to cement a "Right to Post" on platforms run by private companies (Adam Serwer/The Atlantic)
Adam Serwer / The Atlantic: How conservatives redefined free speech in the social media era, using the First Amendment to…
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With AI image generation tools like Stable Diffusion and DreamBooth, it's easy to make damaging deepfakes using just a few images of a person from social media (Benj Edwards/Ars Technica)
Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: With AI image generation tools like Stable Diffusion and DreamBooth, it’s easy to make damaging…
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With "Twitter Files", Elon Musk shows himself as an egregious example of what he wanted to expose: managers leveraging their social platforms for partisan ends (Eric Levitz/New York Magazine)
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine: With “Twitter Files”, Elon Musk shows himself as an egregious example of what he…
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A US federal judge dismisses a proposed class action lawsuit against Kim Kardashian, Floyd Mayweather Jr., and others over promoting EthereumMax on social media (Rebecca Picciotto/CNBC)
Rebecca Picciotto / CNBC: A US federal judge dismisses a proposed class action lawsuit against Kim Kardashian, Floyd Mayweather Jr.,…
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