social media
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Mastodon Has a Child Abuse Material Problem, Like Every Other Major Web Platform
A new report suggests that the lax content moderation policies of Mastodon and other decentralised social media platforms have led to a proliferation of child sexual abuse material. Stanford’s Internet Observatory published new research this week that shows that decentralised sites have serious shortcomings when it comes to “child safety infrastructure.” Unfortunately, that doesn’t make…
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Instagram Gets Off the Hook for Copyright Claims on Embedded Photos
Just how much copyright protection should an artist or photographer expect after they post their work on social media? It’s a murky legal question by itself that’s now made even murkier as an appeals court digs directly into the nature of HTML to say that—no—that embedded photo isn’t a copy of the original photo, but…
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Tumblr Is in the Red and Losing $US30 Million Every Year
Once the go-to spot for teens wearing Doc Martens and suffering from a taste in alternative music, Tumblr is apparently seriously in the red: The platform’s CEO claims that the company is losing $US30 million annually. TechCrunch reported that CEO Matt Mullenweg spilled the beans during the Q&A, which was cohosted by COO Zandy Ring…
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Instagram Head Wants Threads to Be a Sterile, News-Free Environment
Zuckerberg and Mosseri have repeatedly said that Threads is supposed to be an app for ‘kindness’ without all those news publishers demanding a cut.