As Prudes Drive Social Media Takedowns, Museums Embrace... OnlyFans?

Over the last few years, we've seen more and more focus on using content moderation efforts to stamp out anything even remotely upsetting to certain loud interest groups. In particular, we've seen NCOSE, formerly "Morality in...

Social Media Companies Noncommittal on Bipartisan Calls for Changes to Content Regulation

Platform representatives did not commit to legislation that would increase online protections for kids.

Facebook Has Been a Dying Platform for Years, and It’s Mentally Perverting the Older Generation

The Facebook Whistleblowers, as they are called, didn’t tell us much that we didn’t know already. The platform is pure evil. It spies on people, and ignores extremists and political terrorists (lik…

Forget Twitter Threads; Write A Blog Post Instead!

There’s an annoying craze that all the cool kids on Twitter do. Twitter threads. Please stop; write a blog post instead.

Zuckerberg’s rebranding of Facebook to ‘Meta’ won’t call off the attack dogs: Our Democracy demands total submission

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is responding to a political attack with a business defense, rebranding the Silicon Valley behemoth to ‘Meta.’ That’s why it’s unlikely to do much about the establishment’s campaign against him.

When Facebook Turned Off Its News Feed Algorithm, It Made Everyone's Experience Worse... But Made Facebook More Money

For reasons I don't fully understand, over the last few months, many critics of "big tech" and Facebook, in particular, have latched onto the idea that "the algorithm" is the problem. It's been almost weird how frequently...

Court: Congressional Reps Making Noise About Social Media Moderation Doesn't Make Platforms Extensions Of The Government

Another set of plaintiffs insisting social media platforms have it in for "conservative" users have lost in court. The hook for this lawsuit is the (specious) claim that government officials' statements saying social media services...

Trump's Social Media Violating Open Source License

Software licencing and enforcement of those licenses is fundamental to the free software world but sometimes organizations don't care and use software in ways that they're not allowed to and Trump's social media platform truth social is one of...

Trump's Broken Social Media Venture Is Valued At Billions Of Dollars And Its Breaking Experts' Brains

Last week we wrote a bit about Trump's new planned social media website, Truth Social (which forbids too many capital letters, so I will oblige by not capitalizing the entire "Truth" part of the name, as Trump's branding apparently...

'Facebook Papers' turn up heat on embattled social media platform

Several news outlets published stories Monday based on thousands of internal Facebook documents from whistleblower Frances Haugen, ratcheting up the pressure on a company already besieged by weeks of high-profile cr

Complying with the IT Rules 2021: Social media giants in August.

Google (including YouTube), Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Twitter have released their reports in compliance with Rule 4(1)(d) of the IT Rules 2021 for the month of August.

Facebook says it will pay French publishers for news content | Federal News Network

Facebook says it’s struck a deal with a group of French publishers to pay for links to their news stories that are shared by people on the social network…

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