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Campaign launched to tackle issue of algorithms
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4 weeks, 1 day ago

Campaign launched to tackle issue of algorithms

China Daily  

Chinese netizens have expressed support as the government launched a campaign targeting the algorithms behind various internet services, aiming to address long-standing user complaints on issues including homogeneous content recommendations and the malicious manipulation of trending topics. Additionally, the campaign targets the manipulation of trending topic rankings, mandating that internet platforms fully disclose the algorithm principles behind their trending lists …

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Campaign launched to tackle issue of algorithms
4 weeks, 1 day ago

Campaign launched to tackle issue of algorithms

China Daily  

Chinese netizens have expressed support as the government launched a campaign targeting the algorithms behind various internet services, aiming to address long-standing user complaints on issues including homogeneous content recommendations and the malicious manipulation of trending topics. Additionally, the campaign targets the manipulation of trending topic rankings, mandating that internet platforms fully disclose the algorithm principles behind their trending lists …

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Why is it OK for rich guys to steal my work?
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Why is it OK for rich guys to steal my work?

LA Times  

Every day, what’s left of the once-mighty ranks of reporters across this country tap out stories meant to inform, entertain and expose. “To me, it’s a basic fairness thing,” Wicks told me of the notion of internet platforms paying part of their profits to news publishers. “I also want them to do the right thing.” Mateen and his colleagues also …

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Google brings new tool to tackle terrorist content on small online platform
1 year, 1 month ago

Google brings new tool to tackle terrorist content on small online platform

India TV News  

Google has reportedly created a free tool for small online platforms for the user to create an online platform to deal with disturbing terrorist content. Named ‘Altitude’, the free new tool is built by Jigsaw, which is a unit within Google that tracks disinformation, extremism, censorship and a non-profit group called 'Tech Against Terrorism'. As per The Wired, the tool …

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Opinion: Kids have been used like guinea pigs on Big Tech’s platforms. How much harm will we tolerate?
1 year, 1 month ago

Opinion: Kids have been used like guinea pigs on Big Tech’s platforms. How much harm will we tolerate?

LA Times  

It should be no surprise that federal politicians favor Big Tech. In the eight years since Russia used Facebook, Instagram and other platforms to interfere in the U.S. presidential election, Congress has done nothing to protect our democracy from assault by bad actors. Section 230, which was created to enable internet platforms to moderate harmful speech online, has been interpreted …

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The Supreme Court Will Decide if Texas Is Allowed to Kill the Internet
1 year, 2 months ago

The Supreme Court Will Decide if Texas Is Allowed to Kill the Internet

Slate  

This is part of Opening Arguments, Slate’s coverage of the start of the latest Supreme Court term. The answer, which lies at the heart of a pair of cases the Supreme Court agreed to hear on Friday, could fundamentally alter the nature and operation of social media platforms and the internet itself. Reacting to complaints from the political right that …

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Moderating the publisher-platform relationship
2 years, 7 months ago

Moderating the publisher-platform relationship

The Hindu  

The story so far: On April 5, the Canadian government introduced a Bill that seeks to make Internet platforms such as Google and Facebook pay news publishers for use of their content. The genesis of this was a 2019 report by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, the country’s regulator, which saw platforms such as Google and Facebook as having …

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Instagram, Facebook, Twitter Ban in India: Netizens go bonkers with hilarious memes and trolls
3 years, 6 months ago

Instagram, Facebook, Twitter Ban in India: Netizens go bonkers with hilarious memes and trolls

India TV News  

Rumours on Tuesday shook the internet that social media platforms like Instagram, Facebook and Twitter will be banned in India fropm May 26. Picking up hilarious Bollywood dialogues that justify the situation to coming up with creative GIFs, netizens flooded the internet with memes on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp ban in India. Have a look- As per the new …

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Platforms Must Pay for Their Role in the Insurrection
54 years, 11 months ago

Platforms Must Pay for Their Role in the Insurrection

Wired  

President Trump and his enablers in government and right-wing media will shoulder the blame for Wednesday’s insurrection at the US Capitol, but internet platforms—Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and Twitter, in particular—have played a fomenting and facilitating role that no one should overlook. The business choices of internet platforms have enabled an explosion not only of white supremacy but also of Covid …

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Alibaba CEO says China's draft anti-monopoly rules ‘timely and necessary’
4 years, 1 month ago

Alibaba CEO says China's draft anti-monopoly rules ‘timely and necessary’

The Hindu  

China's move to draft rules aimed at preventing monopolistic behaviour by internet platforms is “timely and necessary”, Alibaba Group CEO Daniel Zhang said on Monday. The annual event from Nov. 23-24 organised by the Cyberspace Administration of China takes place as the country's internet giants including Alibaba, Tencent Holdings and Meituan face increasing government scrutiny. Earlier this month the planned …

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Draft rules aim to curb monopolistic behavior of internet platforms
4 years, 1 month ago

Draft rules aim to curb monopolistic behavior of internet platforms

China Daily  

China Daily China's draft rules aimed at preventing monopolistic behavior of internet platforms will help regulate online economic activities, stop anticompetitive practices, promote fair competition in the market and safeguard consumer interests, experts said. Dong Yizhi, a lawyer at Shanghai Joint Win Law Firm, said the draft rules reiterate that internet platform companies, including e-commerce marketplaces, must not abuse their …

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Draft rules aim to curb monopolistic behavior of internet platforms
4 years, 1 month ago

Draft rules aim to curb monopolistic behavior of internet platforms

China Daily  

China Daily China's draft rules aimed at preventing monopolistic behavior of internet platforms will help regulate online economic activities, stop anticompetitive practices, promote fair competition in the market and safeguard consumer interests, experts said. Dong Yizhi, a lawyer at Shanghai Joint Win Law Firm, said the draft rules reiterate that internet platform companies, including e-commerce marketplaces, must not abuse their …

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Tech CEOs square off with senators in hearing over online speech
4 years, 1 month ago

Tech CEOs square off with senators in hearing over online speech

Live Mint  

Chiefs of the largest social-media companies tangled with U.S. senators over their role in public discourse six days before the end of an election that has made the executives the target of bipartisan criticism. Mr. Dorsey said Twitter has policies against certain types of false information, including “manipulated media, public health—specifically Covid—and civic integrity.” Mr. Trump’s labeled tweets addressed mail-in …

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Op-Ed: Facebook drove QAnon’s mad growth and enhanced its power to poison elections
4 years, 2 months ago

Op-Ed: Facebook drove QAnon’s mad growth and enhanced its power to poison elections

LA Times  

A supporter of QAnon conspiracy theory at a rally for President Trump in 2018. Internet platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Google, YouTube and Twitter have provided the algorithmic amplification to drive QAnon from the fringes into the mainstream. When Trump posts a message on Twitter and Facebook that implies support for QAnon, algorithms give it maximum reach because it grabs …

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Shandong to bolster development of industrial internet
4 years, 6 months ago

Shandong to bolster development of industrial internet

China Daily  

East China's Shandong province held a seminar on June 8 to discuss the deployment and development of industrial internet in the province. Zhang Ruimin, chief executive officer of Haier Group, and Zhou Yunjie, the group's president, gave presentations on Haier's exploration and practices in industrial internet development. Zhang said that industrial internet platforms should be utilized to empower more enterprises …

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Shandong to bolster development of industrial internet
4 years, 6 months ago

Shandong to bolster development of industrial internet

China Daily  

East China's Shandong province held a seminar on June 8 to discuss the deployment and development of industrial internet in the province. Zhang Ruimin, chief executive officer of Haier Group, and Zhou Yunjie, the group's president, gave presentations on Haier's exploration and practices in industrial internet development. Zhang said that industrial internet platforms should be utilized to empower more enterprises …

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