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Moderation AI is doing a bad job considering language, culture, and context
AI just doesn’t understand context and it’s censoring people for no reason.
Feminist social network Spinster is the newest and biggest free speech platform using Gab
Gab seems to be delivering on what it says on the box.
Instagram is training a “fact-checking” AI that will suppress “misinformation”
It’s part of Facebook’s continued efforts to censor information through “fact-checking” in the run up to 2020.
Twitter running propaganda ad campaign against Hong Kong protestors from state-owned China news agency
China Xinhua News has been referred to as “the world’s biggest propaganda machine” by Reporters without Borders and the US Department of Justice (DOJ) previously ordered it to register as a foreign agent to combat Chinese propaganda.
Senator Ron Wyden calls on Facebook and Google to end political micro-targeting
Sen. Wyden suggests that Google and Facebook should prevent politicians from uploading lists of specific voters for targeted adverts.
New Facebook Group tools to tackle “problematic” content will just drive users into the shadows, experts warm
“I am very concerned this will further allow conspiracy communities and violent extremists to further obfuscate their activity”
8chan owner Jim Watkins subpoenaed by House Homeland Security Committee
This follows the same committee requested that Watkins testify before Congress earlier this month.
FTC Chairman Joseph Simons says he’s fully willing to break up big tech
Simons says it “could be the right remedy to rein in dominant companies and restore competition.”
Google leaker Zach Vorhies delivers trove of data showing Google biases to the Department of Justice
The Google leaks contradict their public testimony and the Vorhies wants the DOJ to know.
Google leak appears to show search blacklists, something Google testified don’t exist
In July Google testified: “We don’t use blacklists, whitelists to influence our search results.”
Philidelphia shooter reportedly live streaming on Facebook
Multiple reports are suggesting that six officers have been injured in this active shooter situation.
Google bias leaker says he went public after Google tactically called police to give him a “welfare check”
Lawyers for Vorhies say “they’ve tried to establish that I’ve got some sort of mental problem, in order to make their case easier.”