Tuesday, April 22, 2025

AI in Business

Rumble among 15 targets of Texas attorney general’s child privacy probe

Privacy experts who spoke to WIRED described Rumble, Quora and WeChat as unusual suspects but declined to speculate on why they were included in...

How a US TikTok ban would actually work

The law states that it will be "unlawful" to "distribute, maintain or update" the application, including its source code, or "provide services" that will...

No fact checking and more hate speech: Meta Goes MAGA

Since Donald Trump regained the presidency on November 5, a parade of Silicon Valley luminaries engaged in an inappropriate groveling fest, causing pilgrimage to...

Meta’s future looks a lot like Elon Musk’s X

"The meta has always been home to Russian, Chinese and Iranian disinformation," says Gordon Crovitz, co-founder of NewsGuard, a company that provides a tool...

Social media users AI isn’t always a completely stupid idea

Last week, Meta caused a stir when it announced that it intended to populate its platform with a significant number of completely artificial users...

No fact checking and more hate speech: Meta Goes MAGA

Since Donald Trump regained the presidency on November 5, a parade of Silicon Valley luminaries engaged in an inappropriate groveling fest, causing pilgrimage to...

Meta Now Allows Users to Say Gay and Transgender People Suffer from ‘Mental Illness’

The updates similarly maintain a number of older restrictions that Meta has had in place for years. The current version of the policy maintains...

Meta’s fact-checking partners say they were “blindsided” by the decision to ax them

Meta's fact-checking partners say they were "blindsided" by the company's decision ditch third party fact checking on Facebook, Instagram and Threads in favor of...