A new movement wants to protect social media from billionaires
An initiative called Free Our Feeds, backed by the founder of Wikipedia, aims to protect the social media technology that ...
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What Mark Zuckerberg Gets Right About Fact-Checking and Content Moderation
On Joe Rogan’s podcast, Zuckerberg made it clear he was ready to do business: In his peculiar black T-shirt and gold chain — ...
‘Meta sees me as a golden goose.’ How Zuckerberg’s AI creations went rogue and gave the game away
Facebook and Instagram have pulled the plug on AI avatars Grandpa Brian and Liv but their successors will soon flood our ...
Elon Musk Makes Rare Outing with Shivon Zilis, Mother of 3 of His Kids, as He Joins Trump in D.C.
Elon Musk made a rare public outing with Shivon Zilis, the mother of three of his children, as the pair attended a ...
MIT Technology Review3d
We need to protect the protocol that runs Bluesky
If you’ve heard of Bluesky, you’ve probably heard of it as a clone of Twitter where liberals can take refuge. But under the ...
In a minefield of glitchy AI search and social media, Wikipedia becomes one of the most reliable places on the internet
Over the past two decades, the free-to-use online encyclopedia has carried on with its mission, expanding its global community of volunteer editors, known as Wikipedians, and ultimately resisting the ...
Free Our Feeds Aims to Decentralize Social Media With—or Instead of—Bluesky
The new organization wants to build on the open-source, user-defined model of the increasingly popular platform Bluesky, in ...
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Hulk smash Musk and Zuck! Actor Mark Ruffalo and non-billionaire pals back network tech underpinning Bluesky
In a challenge to billionaire-controlled social media platforms, a group of nine less affluent technology leaders have formed ...
The dynamics that polarise us on social media are about to get worse
Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced big changes in how the company ... Crowdsourced systems such as Wikipedia, ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency1dOpinion
Why everyone is quoting Hannah Arendt, sometimes even accurately
The German-Jewish political theorist, who wrote about the uses of misinformation under totalitarian governments, is riding a ...
Meta shift from fact-checking to crowdsourcing spotlights competing approaches in fight against misinformation and hate speech
(THE CONVERSATION) Meta’s decision to change its content moderation policies by replacing centralized fact-checking teams with user-generated community labeling has stirred up a storm of reactions.