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Snap launches a planning tool for organising meet-ups with friends

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Snap has launched Snapchat Plans, an invite-only tool for organising real-world gatherings of up to 200 people, built on the finding that a third of young American users already arrange meet-ups in chats. The European Commission has had formal proceedings open against Snapchat since March over its protection of minors, and none of the coverage […]

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Instagram’s head says engagement falls by half without the algorithm

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Adam Mosseri has warned that users who switch off Instagram’s recommendation system end up with a worse experience, telling an Australian press briefing that engagement can fall by as much as 50% and that satisfaction scores fall off a cliff. Mosseri spoke on Thursday as Australia consults on legislation that would force platforms to prompt […]

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Irish regulator probes X over age checks, with 10% of turnover at stake

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Ireland’s media regulator has opened an investigation into whether X’s age assurance and parental controls meet the online safety code, with sanctions of up to EUR 20M or 10% of relevant turnover. X lost a High Court challenge to that code last July and was allowed to appeal it in January, so it is being […]

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The US asked Britain to drop its plan to promote trusted news

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The United States has asked Britain to abandon a plan to make social platforms promote trusted news. Its central argument is not about Britain at all. The submission sits on the US Embassy website in London, dated 2 September. It answers a consultation on the government’s media Green Paper, which opened on 23 June. That […]

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Macron asks Brussels for an under-15s social media ban after France’s own was struck down

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Emmanuel Macron has asked the European Commission to ban children under 15 from social media across the bloc, three weeks after France’s highest constitutional authority struck down his government’s attempt to do the same thing nationally. The request came in a letter to Commission president Ursula von der Leyen dated 29 August, reported by Reuters on Tuesday. […]

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Australia will make platforms prompt users to switch off algorithmic feeds

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Australia has published draft legislation that would require social media platforms to show users recurring prompts offering to turn the algorithmic feed off. The exposure draft of the Digital Duty of Care bill went out this week, Reuters reported, and carries penalties above A$100m for breaches. Plenty of jurisdictions have established that users should be able […]

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Nitter says it will continue despite X Corp’s cease-and-desist

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Two weeks after X Corp’s lawyers demanded it disappear, Nitter is coming back. The open-source project posted a two-line notice on Monday saying it will continue, following legal advice. It did not say what that advice was. The notice sits on nitter.net, struck through the old cease-and-desist banner. “Following legal advice, the Nitter project will […]

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Musk’s blow torch post is why X just lost the Twitter bird logo

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On 22 July 2023, Elon Musk posted that X would “bid adieu to the twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds.” The next day he said the company was taking blow torches to the Twitter logo on the building. Three years on, both posts have cost him a trademark. Chief Judge Colm Connolly ruled on […]

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Every binding AI review Washington has proposed has come back voluntary. Zuckerberg reportedly rang Trump about the latest one.

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Mark Zuckerberg raised concerns about a proposed national AI regulator in a previously unreported call with Donald Trump in mid-August, Politico reports. The two options still on the table are a FINRA-style body funded by the firms it would oversee and an MPA-style voluntary ratings scheme, so the debate is over how much self-regulation rather […]

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YouTube has removed 20 channels after Semafor traced an AI news network that hired real actors

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YouTube has terminated 20 channels in a network that paid gig-economy actors $26 a video to read AI-generated scripts attacking Democratic politicians. The network reached 45 million views because putting a real face in front of an AI pipeline defeats every synthetic-media detector platforms have built. Enforcement came only after Semafor and Riddance AI published, […]

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