The attempt on Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico's life on Wednesday triggered an intense wave of hateful and toxic comments online, according to data compiled by Slovak start-up Elv.ai. The organisation found that on the day of the assassination, hateful comments — which can include vulgar language, hate speech, racism, xenophobia, threats, as well as justification of the attack — increased by 60% compared to their entire monitoring database. Previously, the level of toxicity in online comments reached its highest during the Slovakian presidential elections in March and April, with Elv.ai ...
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Meta’s Facebook and Instagram are subject to two more investigations under the Digital Services Act (DSA) to check whether their measures to protect minors online are compliant with the platform rules, the European Commission said today (16 May). The investigation focuses on the design of Facebook's and Instagram's online interfaces, which could “exploit the weaknesses and inexperience of minors and cause addictive behaviour”, the Commission said. In addition, the probe will check Meta's compliance with mitigation measures to prevent access by minors to inappropriate content and age-verificati...
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Meta’s Facebook and Instagram last week (30 April) became subject to an investigation under the EU’s online platform rules for seemingly lacking the robustness to counter Russian disinformation, the latest in a series of probes into platforms’ handling of the Digital Services Act (DSA). Baltic and Nordic NGOs and researchers have painted a bleak picture of big tech's efforts to stop pro-Kremlin trolls, and doubt if these probes will put a halt to ongoing disinformation campaigns aimed at undermining NATO and the EU, while trying to bolster Russia’s credibility. Faktabaari, a Finnish fact-check...
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A new lawsuit asks whether social media users can control what they see on their Facebook feeds. Last week, the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University filed a lawsuit against Meta, Facebook's parent company, on behalf of a professor who wants to release a tool to empower social media users. University of Massachusetts Amherst professor Ethan Zuckerman would like to release a tool called "Unfollow Everything 2.0". This browser extension "would allow Facebook users to automatically unfollow their friends, groups, and pages, and, in doing so, to effectively turn off their newsfee...
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Meta’s Facebook and Instagram are subject to an investigation over how the platforms tackle disinformation under the Digital Services Act (DSA), amid fears they are vulnerable to Russian networks, the European Commission said today (30 April). The suspected infringements cover Meta's practices relating to deceptive advertising and political content on its services, the Commission said. According to the EU executive, the company’s advertising network is vulnerable to misinformation, and potentially a target for Russian networks. The platforms also lack an effective third-party real-time electio...
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Are we getting a sequel (or a spiritual successor) to The Social Network? Playwright and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, the talent behind The West Wing and The Newsroom, has confirmed that he is currently working on some kind of sequel to The Social Network \- David Fincher’s acclaimed 2010 drama about the creation of Facebook that won Sorkin the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay. “I blame Facebook for January 6,” Sorkin said during a live recording of “The Town” podcast , about Trump supporters storming the US Capitol, and the involvement of Facebook disinformation. He did not elaborate further. ...
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Facebook cannot use publicly available data to target users with personal advertising, Athanasios Rantos, an Advocate General at the EU's Court of Justice, said in an opinion published today (25 April). Austria's Supreme Court had asked the EU judges to clarify whether data protection rules allow the social network to analyse and process personal data for targeted ads without any time bar. The case involves privacy lawyer Max Schrems, an Austrian user of Facebook, which is owned by US tech giant Meta. Schrems filed a complaint about the targeted advertising he received about his sexual orienta...
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Concerns are growing regarding disinformation and artificial intelligence (AI) generated content ahead of the EU elections in June. The European Commission published recommended measures in March for digital platforms with more than 45 million EU-based users per month “to mitigate systemic risks online that may impact the integrity of elections”. In addition, many platforms committed to the EU's Code of Practice on Disinformation "to address both misinformation and disinformation across their services,” a Commission spokesperson said. We expect the main disinformation narratives will have very...
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The European Commission today (24 April) opened infringement procedures against Estonia, Poland and Slovakia because they have not yet designated their Digital Services Coordinators, the national regulators needed under the EU’s platform regulation. The deadline for establishing these watchdogs – who are the online platform's main point of contact in helping the European Commission with collecting evidence on implementation of the Digital Services Act (DSA) – was 17 February. In addition, Cyprus, Czechia and Portugal also received a formal Commission letter because they did not empower their r...
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A court in Russia on Monday convicted the spokesperson of US technology company Meta of justifying terrorism and sentenced him to six years in prison in a swift trial in absentia, Russia's independent news site Mediazona reported. According to the outlet, the charges against Meta communications director Andy Stone stem from his remarks in 2022 following Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24 that year. Meta is the parent company of Facebook and Instagram. Stone, who is based in the United States, announced temporary changes to Meta’s hate speech policy to allow for "forms of po...
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