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  • ChatGPT broke the EU plan to regulate AI | POLITICO

    March 7, 2023

    Artificial intelligence’s newest sensation — the gabby chatbot-on-steroids ChatGPT — is sending European rulemakers back to the drawing board on how to regulate AI. The chatbot dazzled the internet in […]

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  • Job Opportunity: Post-Doc Research Associate | UNC – Chapel Hill

    September 16, 2022

    The School of Information and Library Science (SILS) seeks to advance the profession and practice of librarianship and information science, to prepare students for careers in the field of information […]

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  • Meta, TikTok, YouTube and Twitter dodge questions on social media and national security | TechCrunch

    September 15, 2022

    Executives from four of the biggest social media companies testified before the Senate Homeland Security Committee Wednesday, defending their platforms and their respective safety, privacy and moderation failures in recent […]

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  • Europe’s New Law Will Force Secretive TikTok to Open Up | WIRED

    May 5, 2022

    Social networks grow up faster these days. It took Facebook eight years to reach 1 billion users, but TikTok got there in just five. The fast-growing short-video app also got […]

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  • The Biggest Problem Facing America: Misinformation-At-Scale | ProMarket

    May 3, 2021

    Before there was “move fast and break things,” there was another animating ethic of the tech industry: “Get big fast!” This philosophy has proven to be good for the industry, […]

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  • Our podcast: Should platforms have the power to ban leaders like Donald Trump? | Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism

    January 20, 2021

    Following the suspension or barring of Donald Trump by many of the largest social media and tech platforms, after his supporters stormed the Capitol building in January 2021, we explore […]

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  • Google is giving $3 million to news orgs to fact-check vaccine misinformation | Nieman Journalism Lab

    January 13, 2021

    The Google News Initiative announced it will give $3 million to news and fact-checking organizations in an effort to combat misinformation about the Covid-19 vaccine. The tech giant previously awarded […]

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  • Reddit’s largest remaining Trump community banned for “inciting violence” | Ars Technica

    January 12, 2021

    On Friday, Reddit joined this week’s response to violent online rhetoric as spearheaded by President Donald Trump and removed its “r/donaldtrump” community, the site’s largest existing community dedicated specifically to […]

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  • Reddit clone Voat, home to hate speech and QAnon, has shut down | Ars Technica

    December 28, 2020

    Reddit alternative Voat shut down on Christmas Day, citing a lack of operational funding, and casting doubt on the abilities of other similar almost-anything-goes, “free speech” platforms to stay online […]

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  • Facebook Fuels Toxic Content, But Fox News Is Still the Superspreader | Mother Jones

    November 24, 2020

    Democrats and Republicans alike have been eagerly grilling the CEOs of social media companies lately about their complicity in spreading disinformation. This is being done under the implied threat that […]

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