An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: The parent company of Facebook and Instagram has banned seven firms it says used its platforms to spy on some 50,000 unsuspecting targets, including human rights activists, government critics, celebrities, …
Nonprofits have the answers to improve social media: Big Tech has the resources to make it happen
There is potential for social media giants to team up with other organizations and nonprofits to make social media a safer place for all people.
Gift Guide: Extremely Online books
If you can’t read a good book without stopping every few pages to tweet about it, you might be what we call Extremely Online. You unabashedly distinguish between real life and digital life by using phrases like IRL versus URL, you disabled the Screen Time app on your iPhone because you don’t need that kind of judgement. Maybe you’re so online that it’s your job to write about social media, and even when you’re not working, you’re still thinking about the vice grip that Meta has on your life. Okay, that last one hit a bit too close to home.
Backed by former Facebook and Twitter execs, Tagg launches social branding app for Gen Z
Gen Z isn’t satisfied with the social media they grew up with, so they’re building the apps that they want to use. A “social branding” app for creative teens and twenty-somethings, Tagg is announcing a $2 million seed round today from Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, Facebook’s former VP of International Growth Ed Baker, TripAdvisor founder […]
Meta 宣佈搗破 7 個「網軍」組織 停 1500 個帳號
Facebook 母公司 Meta 與加拿大多倫多大學的公民實驗室於本周四宣佈搗破 7 個「網軍」組織。而他們調查指出這些組織來自中國、印度、以色列等國家。 報告指出，這些「網軍」組織涉及操控大量假帳號。而 Meta 表示已暫停了大約 1500 個帳號，大部份來自 Facebook、Instagram 及 WhatsApp。 而遭封鎖的 7 間「網軍」公司更有 4……
Meta expands bug bounty program to reward discoveries of scraped data
Meta is expanding its bug bounty program to reward researchers who report data scraping. The change will allow researchers to report both bugs that could enable scraping activity.
Noname Security hits $1B valuation after $135M Series C raise
API security is all the rage these days, pushed into the limelight following a spate of high profile security incidents that saw reams of user data exposed or exfiltrated. Peloton spilled users’ private account information; Experian exposed the financial histories of millions of Americans; and Facebook, LinkedIn, and Clubhouse all had user data scraped en […]
Her Instagram Handle Was ‘Metaverse.’ Last Month, It Vanished.
Five days after Facebook changed its name to Meta, an Australian artist found herself blocked, with seemingly no recourse, from an account documenting nearly a decade of her life and work. From a report: In October, Thea-Mai Baumann, an Australian arti…
「GAFA」の主力製品は、こうして“退化”が加速する
徹底した顧客主義を貫いてきたはずのAmazonのサイトに広告が溢れるなど、巨大テック企業のサーヴィスや製品が“退化”するようになった。この現象はグーグルやフェイスブック、アップル、マイクロソフトといった企業すべてに共通しており、いまや「GAFA」をはじめとする巨大テック企業に蔓延しているのだ──。『WIRED』US版エディター・アット・ラージ（編集主幹）のスティーヴン・レヴィによる考察。
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Facebookは「進化したAI」で、世界中の“危険なコンテンツ”を監視できるか
さまざまな言語で用いられているFacebookから悪質なコンテンツを排除すべく、AIを用いた新しいモデレーションのシステムを運営元のメタ・プラットフォームズが開発した。必要とするトレーニングデータが従来のシステムと比べてはるかに少ない点が特徴だが、バイアスなどの望ましくない副作用について懸念の声も上がっている。
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