The cure for bad information is good information. If people are sometimes persuaded by the false, that’s a risk attendant upon the proper practice of democracy. By Stephen L Carter.
A US senate hearing to reform an Internet law and hold tech companies accountable for how they moderate content quickly turned into a political scuffle.
Twitter is revising its “Hacked Materials Policy”, which lay at the heart of its enforcement action this week against a controversial New York Post article.
Social media companies are facing heightened scrutiny and pressure to do more to keep their platforms from becoming vectors of misinformation, election meddling and all-around disorder as the US gets ready to vote.
China has announced an initiative to establish global standards on data security, saying it wants to promote multilateralism in the area at a time when “individual countries” are “bullying” others.
A group representing major Internet companies has urged a US regulator to reject a Trump administration bid to narrow the ability of social media companies to remove objectionable content.
Despite its superficially frivolous nature, young people have been using TikTok to send political messages, coordinate political actions and hang out in an online space largely free of adults.
Let’s be blunt. It makes no sense for Microsoft to buy TikTok. Even founder Bill Gates, who no longer has an active role, sees TikTok as a “poisoned chalice”. By Tim Culpan.
Twitter has expressed an interest in buying video platform TikTok’s US operations, it has been reported. The video-sharing app is already the subject of takeover discussions with Microsoft.
Facebook on Wednesday for the first time took down a post by US President Donald Trump, which the company said violated its rules against sharing misinformation about the coronavirus.