A covert campaign to target a writer critical of the countryβs Communist Party has extended to sexually suggestive threats against his 16-year-old daughter.
The case, one of several this term on how the First Amendment applies to technology platforms, was dismissed on the ground that the plaintiffs lacked standing to sue.
The case arose from a barrage of communications from Biden administration officials urging platforms to take down posts on topics like the coronavirus vaccine and claims of election fraud.
Tech companies have been making subtle and not-so-subtle changes to their rules for better access to data for building A.I. We took a look at some of them.
Kristin Bride, a member of ParentsSOS, next to an apple tree she planted after her son Carsonβs suicide in 2020. The appleβs variety is Sweet Sixteen, Carsonβs age when he died.
Ordering mistakes frustrated customers during nearly three years of tests. But competitors like White Castle and Wendyβs say their A.I. ordering systems have been highly accurate.
TikTok creators gathered for a news conference with members of Congress in March. TikTok has said that a ban of the app would violate the First Amendment.
The facial recognition start-up doesnβt have the funds to settle a class-action lawsuit, so lawyers are proposing equity for those whose faces were scraped from the internet.
Linda Yaccarino told X employees that 65 percent of advertisers had returned to the platform since January, while admitting that the business continues to face advertising headwinds.
Christopher Blair, a renowned βliberal trollβ who posts falsehoods to Facebook, is having a banner year despite crackdowns by Facebook and growing competition from A.I.
Word puzzles on LinkedIn. Logic challenges in The Washington Post. For news publishers and tech sites looking to both entice and engage users, games are serious business.
Social media users voiced worries about a move by Meta to use information from public Instagram and Facebook posts to train its A.I. But the scraping has already begun. Hereβs what to know.
Meta sent notifications to European users of Facebook and Instagram letting them know that their public posts could be used to train its A.I. β including its chatbot and other services it develops β starting on June 26. In the United States, public posts are already being used to train the services.
BNN Breaking had millions of readers, an international team of journalists and a publishing deal with Microsoft. But it was full of error-ridden content.
Israelβs Ministry of Diaspora Affairs ordered the operation, which used fake social media accounts urging U.S. lawmakers to fund Israelβs military, according to officials and documents about the effort.
The campaign focused on more than a dozen members of Congress, including Representative Ritchie Torres, left, and Hakeem Jeffries, the House minority leader.
Since Google overhauled its search engine, publishers have tried to assess the danger to their brittle business models while calling for government intervention.
Googleβs chief executive, Sundar Pichai, last year. A new A.I.-generated feature in Google search results βis greatly detrimental to everyone apart from Google,β a newspaper executive said.
It was the latest example of journalists having to weigh the news value of a major political moment against the challenges of reporting on a candidate who regularly speaks in falsehoods.
A study found that hundreds of sites, many without obvious Kremlin links, copied Russian propaganda and spread it to unsuspecting audiences ahead of the E.U. election.
RT, which the U.S. State Department describes as a key player in the Kremlinβs disinformation and propaganda apparatus, has been banned in the European Union, Canada and other countries since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022.
After some trying years during which Mr. Zuckerberg could do little right, many developers and technologists have embraced the Meta chief as their champion of βopen-sourceβ artificial intelligence.
Videos of parents demonstrating their moves have been a surprise hit on a site where youth rules β perhaps because the trend isnβt played for laughs.
The billionaire owner of X has increasingly been using his social media platform to criticize President Biden for his health and immigration policies, according to a New York Times analysis.
The platform will keep state-affiliated media accounts out of usersβ feeds if they βattempt to reach communities outside their home country on current global events and affairs.β
Marc Andreessen, Chamath Palihapitiya and several other tech venture capitalists are increasingly criticizing President Biden and making their disaffection known in an election year.
Mr. Trump has treated Trump Media, which runs his social network Truth Social, as a low-cost sideshow. Now a big portion of his wealth hinges on its success.
The island democracy was early to ban TikTok on government phones, and the ruling party refuses to use it. But a U.S.-style ban is not under consideration.
The American tech giantβs platforms, Facebook and Instagram, may βexploit the weaknesses and inexperience of minors,β the European Commission said.
Advertisers of merchandise for young girls find that adult men can become their unintended audience. In a test ad, convicted sex offenders inquired about a child model.
Mr. Musk has built a constellation of like-minded heads of state β including Argentinaβs Javier Milei and Indiaβs Narendra Modi β to push his own politics and expand his business empire.
Our columnist spent the past month hanging out with 18 A.I. companions. They critiqued his clothes, chatted among themselves and hinted at a very different future.
The offering from Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery shows how rival companies are willing to work together to navigate an uncertain entertainment landscape.
Redditβs first earnings report as a public company showed leaps in users and advertising revenue, along with expenses related to its initial public offering.
The Justice Department and state attorneys general say that Google has abused a monopoly over the search business, stifling competitors and limiting innovation, something the company denies.
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