Twitter Acts Fast on Nonconsensual Nudity If It Thinks It’s a Copyright Violation – 404 Media
For the study, the researchers uploaded 50 AI-generated nude images to X (formerly Twitter) and reported half of them under… read more
Our Digital Lives Are Too Fragile – Slate
One Friday night at 9 p.m., instead of going out to celebrate my co-worker’s birthday, I found myself glued to… read more
The Evil List – Slate
Slate sent ballots to a wide range of journalists, scholars, advocates, and others who have been thinking critically about technology… read more
How Threads’ Privacy Policy Compares to Twitter’s (and Its Rivals’) – Wired
Threads (Android, Apple) potentially collects a wide assortment of personal data that remains connected to you, based on the information… read more
Twitter is complying with more government demands under Elon Musk – Rest of World
The data, drawn from Twitter’s reports to the Lumen database, shows that between October 27, 2022 and April 26, 2023,… read more
The New ‘Transparent’ Twitter Isn’t Very Transparent – The Atlantic
The move was unprecedented, but this probably won’t go down as a great day in the history of algorithmic transparency…. read more
The Anatomy of Friendship (Dunbar, 2018)
Having friends has dramatic effects on our happiness, mental well-being and longevity. There is a limit to the number of… read more
The Man Behind Mastodon Built It for This Moment – Wired
Instead of creating a single unified platform, the Mastodon protocol allows anyone to use open-source software to boot up a… read more
Twitter’s content moderation head quits as departures alarm the FTC – Washington Post
In an internal Slack message shared with The Washington Post, an employee said the quick release of products and changes… read more
The Age of Social Media Is Ending – The Atlantic
That changed when social networking became social media around 2009, between the introduction of the smartphone and the launch of… read more