This is the end of the first week after Twitter accepted Elon Musk’s $44 billion buyout offer, and one of the…
Focus Tag: Accountability
Facebook Doesn’t Know What It Does With Your Data, Or Where It Goes: Leaked Document | VICE
Facebook is facing what it describes internally as a “tsunami” of privacy regulations all over the world, which will force…
From the Arab Spring to Russian censorship: a decade of internet blackouts and repression | Rest of World
On February 27, a few days after Russia invaded Ukraine, radio journalist Valerii Nechay returned to St. Petersburg from a…
New E.U. landmark law targets Big Tech firms over hate speech, disinformation | NBC News
The European Union reached an agreement Saturday on landmark legislation forcing Big Tech firms such as Google and Facebook's parent company…
Twitter bans climate change propaganda ads | The Washington Post
Twitter is banning advertisements that promote climate change denial in an effort to curb the reach of groups seeking to…
Librarians and Misinformation: Curating the Information Needs of Communities | Shorenstein Center
While trust in political institutions rapidly deteriorates and the technology and media companies that we rely on repeatedly fail to…
Attention, Joe Rogan: Spotify now reserves the right to restrict the reach of misinformation | Nieman Journalism Lab
After Spotify’s Joe Rogan Experience released a widely derided episode that made covid vaccines sound as safe as Russian roulette…
A Twitter takeover would be a global headache for Elon Musk | Rest of World
When Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX announced his intention to buy Twitter for $43 billion, his letter…
What to know about disinformation and how to address it | Stanford News
Over the past decade, the spread of disinformation online has become a problem facing the U.S. and the world. Increasingly,…
Pinterest bans all climate change misinformation on its platform | TechCrunch
Pinterest announced today it’s becoming the first major digital platform to introduce a comprehensive misinformation policy designed to combat false…