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Meta on trial over child safety: can it really protect its next generation of users?

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New Mexico prosecutors allege Meta prioritized profit, even as child abuse surged on Instagram and FacebookSign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inboxMeta is facing a reckoning over its child safety practices as a trial surfaces fresh allegations that the company prioritized profit incentives and engagement over protecting […]

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Instagram to remove end-to-end encryption for private messages in May

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Meta’s announcement comes after years of criticism from child safety groups over featureInstagram will stop encrypting private messages between users from May, after enduring years of criticism from law enforcement and child safety groups over the feature.Meta quietly announced this month on its help page for Instagram and in an updated 2022 news post that

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‘Another internet is possible’: Norway rails against ‘enshittification’

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Absurdist video urges policymakers and users to resist deliberate deterioration of platforms and devicesThe video’s opening shot shows a man hiding under a bed snipping in a hole in someone’s sock. Seconds later, the same man uses a saw to shorten a table leg so that it wobbles during breakfast. “My job is to make

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Nigeria’s online content creator market has boomed. Can the skit-makers and streamers make it pay?

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As platforms make less from advertising, creators are struggling to monetise work – leading to calls for more government investment and tax breaksOn a humid afternoon in Lagos, a shoot for a comedy skit is under way on a set that looks more like a small film production.Dozens of people mill about: lighting assistants, a

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Meta and Google trial: are infinite scroll and autoplay creating addicts?

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Features woven into the fabric of platforms have been central to landmark social media harm case in US. How do they work?It was as “easy as ABC”, claimed the lawyer prosecuting a landmark social media harm case against Meta and Google which heard closing arguments this week. The defendants were guilty, said Mark Lanier, of

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‘IG is a drug’: jury to deliberate as US trial over social media addiction wraps up

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Meta and YouTube accused of creating harmful products in trial seen as a bellwether for attitudes towards social mediaThe first-ever jury trial over the potential harms of social media wrapped up on Thursday. Lawyers for Meta and YouTube have argued their platforms are safe for the vast majority of young people, while lawyers for a

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New MIT class uses anthropology to improve chatbots

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Young adults growing up in the attention economy — preparing for adult life, with social media and chatbots competing for their attention — can easily fall into unhealthy relationships with digital platforms. But what if chatbots weren’t mere distractions from real life? Could they be designed humanely, as moral partners whose digital goal is to

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Self-publish and be scammed: Jon’s tale of heartbreak highlights boom in fraudsters using AI to supercharge book swindles

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New wave of publishing scams mimic lonely hearts hoaxes of old – swapping promises of true love for the fantasy of literary acclaim. And the wooing process is now fully automatedEight years of dedication were poured into the pages of Angel of Aleppo, Jon Cocks’ debut historical novel. Inspired by his wife’s grandmother, a survivor

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Meta acquires AI agent social network Moltbook

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Co-founders of Moltbook, a platform for artificial intelligence agents, will join tech giant’s AI research unitFacebook parent Meta Platforms said on Tuesday it had acquired Moltbook, a social networking platform built for artificial intelligence agents, bringing the company’s founders into its AI research division.The deal will bring Moltbook co-founders Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr into

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A.I. Incites a New Wave of Grieving Parents Fighting for Online Safety

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Blaming chatbots, they are joining an earlier push for better protections by parents who say social media contributed to their children’s deaths.

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