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Supreme Court rules for Biden administration in social media case

The Supreme Court sided with the Biden administration Wednesday in a dispute with Republican-led states over the White House's efforts to limit misinformation on social media.

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Liberals turning to influencers to try to win back young voters

The Liberals are trying to win back millennials and Gen Z by courting them on social media through TikTok influencers and video.

CBC News

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Modi's party betting on influencers to court young voters in India

India's six-week-long election is still underway and the next round is due to take place on Saturday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is widely expected to win a third term in office. His party is keen to court younger voters and in order t...

France 24

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Monitoring the growing risk of AI content on social media

Social media platforms have started to label AI-generated content, but experts say more needs to be done to make users aware of how to tell fact from fiction.

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Reddit forges pact with OpenAI

Reddit announced a partnership with OpenAI to bring its content to the chatbot ChatGPT and other products.

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TikTok sues U.S. government over law forcing sale or ban

TikTok sued the U.S. government over a new law that will force its Chinese parent company ByteDance Ltd. to divest the popular video app or face a ban across the country.

Bloomberg

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Indian journalists turn to YouTube as press freedom declines

Since Narendra Modi's election, India's standing in RSF's press freedom rankings has steadily declined. In 2023, the country found itself ranked 161st out of 180 nations. Now, some journalists, including some former star presenters, are ...

France 24

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Report recommends no smartphones before age of 13

A French team of experts led by addictologist Amine Benyamina delivered a report on children and screens to President Macron. The report contains 29 recommendations, among those are no screen at all under the age of six, no phone before ...

France 24

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Biden to sign law that could ban TikTok in U.S.

U.S. President Joe Biden is expected to sign a law that sets a January 2025 deadline for Chinese parent company ByteDance to sell its U.S. operation. Lawmakers behind the ban have warned of national security risks from the popular social...

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TikTok raises concerns about bill passed by U.S. House

TikTok on Sunday reiterated free speech concerns about a bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives that would ban the popular social media app in the U.S. if its Chinese owner ByteDance did not sell its stake within a year.

Reuters

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IDF soldiers chronicle Gaza destruction on social media

Since the start of the war in Gaza over six months ago, Israeli soldiers have filmed and posted hundreds of videos of destruction in Gaza online, with many mocking the destruction of the enclave. The IDF says it's addressing the issue wi...

France 24

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TikTok became a 'battlefield' in Russia's war with Ukraine

A TikTok video portraying luxury cars and glamorous homes doesn't seem out of the norm. But when the subject is a former defense minister of Ukraine, and an AI voiceover falsely claims he misused Western funds to fund a lavish lifestyle,...

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Trump's media company valued at $8 bn on debut

Trump Media & Technology Group shares surged more than 36% in their debut on the Nasdaq that comes more than two years since its merger with a blank-check firm was announced.

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China criticizes U.S. plan to force sale of TikTok

China says it opposes a US plan to force the sale of TikTok by its Chinese parent company ByteDance. Beijing says it will take all necessary measures to protect the rights and interests of overseas Chinese companies. It comes after the U...

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U.S. House votes in favor of TikTok crackdown

The U.S. House of Representatives has overwhelmingly passed a bill that would give TikTok's Chinese owner ByteDance about six months to divest the U.S. assets of the short-video app or face a ban. The move is the greatest threat to the a...

Reuters

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Trump challenges Biden to debate 'any time, any place'

Trump called for a debate between who he calls 'Crooked Joe' and 'Honest Don' as they both are on the path to securing their party's nominee and headed full steam to a rematch in November.

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U.S push to ban TikTok gains momentum

A bipartisan House panel unanimously voted to essentially ban the social media platform if it doesn’t break ties with its Chinese parent company, ByteDance. Now the bill will progress to the Senate, if it passes, the President said he wo...

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Meta to stop paying for news content in Australia

Meta Platforms says it will stop paying Australian news publishers for content that appears on Facebook, setting up a fresh battle with Canberra which had led the world with a law that forces internet giants to strike licensing deals.

Reuters

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A.I. experts urge action against deepfakes

Hundreds of technology and artificial intelligence experts are urging governments globally to take immediate action against deepfakes — AI-generated voices, images, and videos of people — which they say are an ongoing threat to society.

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Facebook turns 20: How the social media giant changed the world

In 2004, a social network, named “TheFacebook”, was launched by 19-year-old Mark Zuckerberg and his college roommates at Harvard University. Over the past two decades the platform has been credited with revolutionising how we interact on...

Al Jazeera

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Senators tell tech CEOs their ‘product is killing people’

U.S. senators grilled leaders of the biggest social media companies and said Congress must quickly pass legislation, as one lawmaker accused the companies of having "blood on their hands" for failing to protect children.

Reuters

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Tech leaders grilled on child exploitation crisis

Tech leaders, including Meta's Mark Zuckerberg, TikTok's Shou Zi Chew and X's Linda Yaccarino, are answering hard questions from the U.S. Senate as a bipartisan group of lawmakers is pushing for legislation aimed at protecting minors onl...

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Elon Musk lifts X ban on far-right conspiracist Alex Jones

Elon Musk has reinstated far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on the social media platform X, a year after vowing never to let him return. Jones, who claimed that a December 2012 school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, that killed 2...

France 24

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Musk threatens X lawsuit against media watchdog

On the same day Elon Musk's second rocket failed after reaching space, the tech mogul announced he'll be delivering a 'thermonuclear lawsuit' to a liberal media watchdog group.

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IBM pulls advertisements from X over antisemitic posts

IBM says it will no longer advertise on the social media platform X, formerly Twitter, after a media watchdog report said the company's ads were appearing alongside antisemitic posts.

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How social media is being used to spread war misinformation

Open-source intelligence (OSINT) has become instrumental in piecing together what’s happening in both the Israel-Hamas war and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But the technique is also being co-opted by anonymous accounts with questionable...

CBC News

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Meta, Instagram sued for being too addictive

Dozens of U.S. states on Tuesday filed lawsuits against Meta Platforms and its Instagram unit, accusing them of fuelling a youth mental health crisis by intentionally making their social media platforms addictive.

Reuters

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Disinformation spreads rapidly amid Israel-Hamas war

As the war between Israel and Hamas unfolds across the Gaza strip, Israeli and Hamas forces are also fighting each other on another battlefield: social media. With each party seeking to sway public opinion in its favour, it has become in...

France 24

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Palestinians accuse social media of restricting posts

Palestinians say that social media platforms are now restricting posts campaigning for Palestinians or criticising Israel. Al Jazeera’s Nida Ibrahim has been speaking to social media influencers and journalists in the occupied west bank.

Al Jazeera

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Meta takes steps to remove Hamas disinformation

Meta said on Friday it was taking steps to remove content that supported Hamas and spread Hamas-related disinformation. It comes after the European Union reprimanded social media companies for not doing enough to tackle disinformation.

Reuters