Facebook’s algorithm labels grandmother as “hateful” over photos of her knitted pigs AI gone haywire. ➡
Biden AG pick Merrick Garland says he wants to look at “online misinformation” The Capitol riot could be used to push for new internet laws. ➡
“Expert” witness in Senate misinformation hearing has fallen for online falsehoods many times Ironic. ➡
Apache Software Foundation (ASF) drops co-founder from the TinkerPop project over “offensive tweets” Increasing intolerance to free speech. ➡
Streamlabs deletes YouTuber Matt Christiansen’s paid account without warning, refuses to issue refund Christiansen said the account was terminated because of a comment in his live chat. ➡
Slate indefinitely suspends Mike Pesca after he argued the n-word is valid to be used when discussing racism According to Slate, context doesn’t matter. ➡