mark warner
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Big Tech Companies Pledge to Fight Election Deepfakes but Free Speech Issues Remain
Major tech companies announced a new pact at the Munich Security Conference on Friday pledging to fight AI-generated fakes that are intended to deceive the public and influence elections. The press conference, which was livestreamed online, featured leaders from Big Tech firms who’ve been under immense pressure in recent years to address the misinformation that’s…
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Twitter Admits It Hid Tweets About HBO’s QAnon Docuseries
For the past year, Twitter has censored tweets about a documentary exploring the origins of the QAnon movement.
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Most Powerful Person In The World Meets Donald Trump
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg met with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House on Friday. And while Zuck didn’t bother to mention the meeting on any of his social media channels, the president proudly posted a photo of the two men shaking hands on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram (which is also…
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Surprise! Facebook Low-Balled The Percentage Of Teens It Paid To Install Spyware
In January, when news first broke that Facebook had been paying teens in gift cards to let it install what is, by definition, essentially spyware on their phones, it seemed like just another Tuesday. Had it been virtually any other company, the outrage would have been tenfold. After all, paying 13-year-olds to gain access to…