- Google, Bing Under Fire For Serving AI Deepfake Porn In Some Search Results
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, January 12, 2024
Bing, Google, and DuckDuckGo search engines are under fire for serving nonconsensu ...
- Meta To Remove More Detailed Targeting Options Deemed 'Sensitive'
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Friday, January 12, 2024
Starting January 15, Meta will begin removing or consolidating some detailed targeti ...
- Snapchat Allows Parents To Restrict Their Teens' Use Of 'My AI' Chatbot
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Thursday, January 11, 2024
Parents can now restrict their teens' access to the app's "My A ...
- Meta Announces Safety Protections For Teens On Instagram, Facebook
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Wednesday, January 10, 2024
The new protective tools and resources are focused on the types ...
- X Signs 'Free Speech' Content Deals With Don Lemon, Tulsi Gabbard, Jim Rome
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Tuesday, January 9, 2024
X has announced content deals with former CNN news host Don Lemo ...
- Curse Counts Show TV Profanity Is Par For The Coarse
TVBlog, Adam Buckman - Wednesday, January 10, 2024
How much profanity is now on TV? Let someone else count t ...
- Twitch's 'Clips' Feature Being Used By Child Predators, Analysis Shows
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Friday, January 5, 2024
An analysis of Twitch short video segments found many contained sexualized conte ...
- Judge Makes Controversial Ruling In Snapchat Fentanyl Case
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Friday, January 5, 2024
The decision may be seen as controversial with regard to Snapchat's potenti ...
- X Stock Value Down 71% Since Musk's Takeover
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Tuesday, January 2, 2024
Fidelity originally marked down the company's valuation in October. Media buyers' reallocat ...
- Judge Refuses To Block California Content Moderation Law
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Friday, December 29, 2023
A federal judge has rejected X Corp's request to block enforcement ...
- California Judge Denies X's Attempt To Bypass State's Content-Moderation Law
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Friday, December 29, 2023
A federal judge has struck down X's attempt to bypass a social-med ...
- X Corp. Urges Judge To Allow Lawsuit Over Watchdog's Alleged 'Vigilantism'
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Thursday, December 28, 2023
An anti-hate speech organization engaged in "vigilantism" by allegedly scraping data fr ...
- LinkedIn Ad Prices Surge As Brands Reallocate Spending From X
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Thursday, December 28, 2023
Prices of LinkedIn ads -- which are sold by auction and s ...
- Reddit Aims to Go Public, Although Ad Business Has Fallen Short
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Tuesday, December 26, 2023
Reddit's underperforming ad revenue might be holding the company back from pla ...
- What NYT's Copyright Lawsuit Means For Microsoft And Google
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, December 27, 2023
Several months after Microsoft made a commitment to legally back users ...
- Verified Accounts, 'Community Notes' Perpetuate Misinformation On X, Study Finds
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Thursday, December 21, 2023
New research shows the new verification system is proliferating misinformation on t ...
- California Kids Safety Law Draws Support From Watchdogs, FTC Commissioner
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, December 21, 2023
California's controversial Age-Appropriate Design Code a valid regulation of "data capitalism," Fairpla ...
- AI Data Trained On Models Containing Child Sexual Abuse
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, December 20, 2023
LAION-5B, a dataset used to build AI images that has more th ...
- Discord Threatens To Ban Users For Mistreatment Of Trans People
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Friday, December 15, 2023
Discord updated its hateful conduct policy to protect transgender users from abu ...
- Meta To Expand Fact-Checking Program To Threads
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Wednesday, December 13, 2023
Meta has asked fact-checking partners working with Instagram and Facebook to revi ...
- Etsy, eBay, Others Weigh In Against Texas And Florida Content Moderation Laws
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Thursday, December 7, 2023
Etsy, eBay and Yelp have joined a growing list of companies a ...
- Advertisers Challenged By TikTok Deepfakes Of Hamas Victims
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, December 5, 2023
TikTok has had difficulty moderating deepfake videos of Hamas victims as bran ...
- Florida And Texas Content Moderation Laws Create 'Chaos,' Press Advocates Tell Court
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, December 5, 2023
The Media Law Resource Center is urging the Supreme Court to stri ...
- Meta Takes Down Almost 5,000 Fake China-Based Facebook Accounts
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Friday, December 1, 2023
The accounts may have been created to influence the 2024 U.S. presidenti ...
- The Delusion List
Planning & Buying Insider, Joe Mandese - Friday, December 1, 2023
The shift from "exclusion" to "inclusion" lists is perhaps the most importa ...
- Google Bard Analyzes Visuals, Text To Summarize YouTube Content
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, November 28, 2023
A previous update gave Bard the ability to analyze YouTube videos, b ...
- Instagram Places Ads Alongside Child-Sexualizing Reels Targeting Teen Influencer Followers: Report
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Tuesday, November 28, 2023
Instagram reportedly recommended Reels containing "risque footage of children as well ...
- Google Search Ads Found Showing In Porn, Other Questionable Places
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, November 28, 2023
Google Search Partners, a network of third-party sites, has been serving so ...
- Mayor Of Paris Anne Hidalgo Quits X, Calls Platform A Democracy Killer
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Monday, November 27, 2023
Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo calls X a "tool for destroying our democracie ...
- ACLU, Others Blast X Corp's Lawsuit Against Anti-Hate Speech Watchdog
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Friday, November 24, 2023
A victory for X Corp. against the anti-hate speech nonprofit Center f ...