News Around the Globe
By Zilber AARP has agreed to pay $12.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit accusing the powerful seniors group of illegally sharing members’ video-viewing data with Facebook – potentially putting …
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By Herzlich Elon Musk’s X suffered an outage that has prevented scores of users from accessing the social media platform. By approximately 12 p.m. ET, nearly 400 users reported issues …
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By Anna More than half of the most popular TikTok videos about mental health peddle misinformation and pose a significant risk to users struggling with complex conditions, British experts warned. …
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By Zilber Left-leaning social media users have reportedly flocked to upstarts Bluesky and Threads – two rival apps to X, the site owned by Donald Trump-backing billionaire Elon Musk – …
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By Elisa Facebook and Instagram both experienced outages on Monday, according to the web site Downdetector. There were more than 8,000 incidents of people reporting issues with Facebook and over …
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By Senjamici TikTok’s algorithms are poisoning kids’ mental health – and even leading to deaths from boneheaded viral social media challenges, an explosive lawsuit filed Tuesday by state Attorney General …
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By Elisa Powerful criminal networks in Southeast Asia extensively use the messaging app Telegram which has enabled a fundamental change in the way organised crime can conduct large-scale illicit activity, …
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By Barrabi Snapchat failed to adequately warn its users about the extent of rampant “sextortion schemes” targeting underage users – even as employees debated internally about how to address the …
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By Elisa Social media companies collect, share and process vast troves of information about their users while offering little transparency or control, including over how it is used by systems …
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By Elisa X’s global affairs head Nick Pickles is quitting Elon Musk’s embattled social media platform after a decade with the company. Pickles said he had decided to leave the …
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By Zilber Brazil’s Supreme Court on Monday upheld a ban on Elon Musk’s social media platform X – effectively shutting out more than 200 million people from using the popular …
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By Price Politicians and many other X users took to the social media platform on Saturday to sound off on their disapproval of the site being banned in Brazil after …
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By Zilber Cryptocurrency hackers claimed they broke into McDonald’s official Instagram account and used it to promote a fake digital currency – making off with $700,000 in stolen money. A …
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By Barrabi Instagram’s algorithm routinely serves up sexually charged videos featuring scantily-clad sex content creators to teen users as young as 13, according to the alarming results of a seven-month …
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By Elisa The Federal Trade Commission said on Tuesday it had referred a complaint against the social media platform TikTok and its parent company ByteDance over potential violations children’s privacy …
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By Elisa Shares of Trump Media & Technology Group, the owner of social networking site Truth Social, slumped Thursday after former President Donald Trump was convicted in his hush money trial. …
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By Bardolf A popular Iraqi influencer was shot dead by a man on a motorbike while sitting in her car outside her home in Baghdad, according to officials. Ghufran Sawadi, …
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By Elisa The CEOs of leading US technology companies are joining a new artificial intelligence safety board to advise the federal government on how to protect the nation’s critical services …
Read More By Barrabi A fresh legislative push to hold tech giants accountable for child safety is gaining momentum on Capitol Hill – as public outrage grows over online sex predators and AI-generated …
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By Thaler A California judge on Tuesday rejected efforts by social media companies to toss nationwide lawsuits accusing the Big Tech behemoths of illegally enticing and then getting millions of …
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