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Meta challenges Ofcom’s fine maths in court, Courthouse News reports

Meta asked the High Court in London this week to limit how Ofcom calculates online safety fees and maximum fines, Courthouse News reported. The hearing ended late on Wednesday after a day and a half of arguments. It is about Ofcom’s use of worldwide revenue, not a specific fine. The Online Safety Act lets Ofcom […]

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Daniela Amodei warns against AI girlfriends, Business Insider reports

Anthropic president Daniela Amodei has warned that AI romantic partners risk driving people further apart, Business Insider reported. She spoke in a prerecorded interview with Arianna Huffington, founder and chief executive of Thrive Global. It was made for the Think Health conference in Bentonville, Arkansas, on Friday. “I think that’s a terrible use of AI […]

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Meta drops ‘train’ from its website-crawling terms after backlash

Meta has rewritten new terms that would have let it crawl and train its AI on the websites of businesses that use its ads and tools. Critics say the change does not go far enough. The company changed the terms late on Friday after complaints from business customers and the media, Gizmodo reported. The revised terms preview no […]

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Poland tells tech platforms to curb violent content after school attacks

Poland summoned Google, Meta, TikTok, Discord, and Telegram on Friday and told them to do more to stop violent content from spreading after knife attacks at schools, Reuters reported. Elon Musk’s X was also invited but did not attend. The attacks took place over four days last week in Ostrołęka, near Wyszków, and in Warsaw. […]

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Bluesky’s AI tool now lets you make games and apps to share on social

Bluesky’s Attie AI tool, which initially launched earlier this year as a way to use AI to build your own feeds, now lets you make “small” social apps like games, polls, and dashboards that you can then share with others as their own websites. In an interview at TechCrunch Disrupt, Bluesky CEO Toni Schneider said […]

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Facebook will let you customize your feed algorithm using AI

Facebook’s new “Your Algorithm” feature will let you directly add and manage topics you want to see in your feed and Facebook Reels. Meta says your recommendations “respond right away” after you make updates using the new feature by hitting “interested” or “not interested” for different topics. Your Algorithm previously launched on Instagram earlier this […]

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The Yandex outage probably didn’t blitz Russian bots

Multiple Ukrainian drone strikes over the last week have taken Russian data centers offline and reportedly caused online bot traffic to plummet – but in reality it’s probably not the kind of bot activity most people associate with Russia. A chart citing Cloudflare data has been circulating around social media platforms, showing a sharp decline […]

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Turkey’s social media ban for under-15s starts on 1 November

Turkey will bar social media platforms from serving children under 15 from 1 November, under rules published in the country’s Official Gazette, Inci Ozbek reported for Bloomberg. Platforms must check users’ ages when they sign up, using a token from Turkey’s e-government system. Anyone found to be under 15 must be blocked. Existing accounts must […]

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Meta is banning TikTok ads across its platforms

Meta has banned ads from TikTok’s Chinese parent company ByteDance across the US and several other countries as the rivalry between the major social media operators heats up, as reported earlier by Bloomberg. The ban, which went into effect on Thursday, restricts ads and paid marketing messages from ByteDance, along with third-party ads that link […]

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