CategorySocial Media
A Potential Chink in Google’s Armor: Loss of Legal Immunity
Part 3: Currently, Google is legally protected from the consequences of frequent copyright violation
The Utter Dependence of Online Businesses on Google
Part 2: An SEO business needs to please Google or else it is dead in the water
The Evilization of Google—And What to Do About It
Part 1: Understanding Google's dominance over the internet
Wikipedia Cofounder on Wikipedia, AI, Bias, and Human Knowledge
In the podcast, Sanger explains Wikipedia’s early attempts to reflect a neutral point of view, It was, he says, just a dream
US judge finds that Google’s online ad tech monopoly is illegal
Snapchat Has Been Totally Exposed
Employees admit the harms of the camera app
Facebook Ends Fact-Checking, Moves to Community Notes Format
Top executive admits that there was "too much political bias" at Facebook, Instagram, Threads…
Are We Experiencing a Universal Cognitive Decline?
People are increasingly having trouble reading, focusing, and solving complex problems.A new study shows that people are struggling more than ever to read, concentrate, and solve problems. The research comes just a few months after Oxford’s indicative decision to make “Brain Rot” its 2024 “Word of the Year.” Common experience itself lends itself to the conclusion that we are struggling to focus, that our attention is fragmented, and that simply thinking about one issue for more than a few seconds is difficult. The Financial Times reported that intelligence and reasoning capacities have declined since the early 2010s. While the COVID-19 pandemic is commonly blamed for the plummet and is indeed responsible for much of the cognitive decline, the downward trend preceded the crisis according to the study. John Burn-Murdoch reports: Read More ›
Stop Moaning About the ‘Mainstream Media’. You Are the Media Now
Social media have become much more important, relative to traditional news media and we are only beginning to grasp the profound implications
A Careful Autopsy on Legacy Mainstream Media
The new digital world is horizontal. You — not just a White House press correspondent — can watch a top-level White House meeting from anywhere in the world
TikTok Is Banned in the U.S. No It’s Not. Yes It Is. No It’s Not…
The political stew aside, we need to look at the key ways TikTok differs from typical social media
TikTok Is Not Just Overgrown Chatting and Email
Foreign adversary’s AI-empowered threats to national security tip Supreme Court scales against TikTokSocial media like TikTok today interconnect active speakers and active viewers in all directions. The system monitors and stores all the communications, extracting volumes of data for each individual user. In China where the law allows it, the government can scan and analyze not only the speakers and viewers but can also retrieve specific facts about all of them. The government can restrict messages based upon speaker, viewer, and content — and use AI to craft and send personalized, tailored messages aiming to influence users’ buying and voting decisions, not to mention their psychological well-being. TikTok and the First Amendment Broad-band internet services, multi-billion-dollar social media, and expanding central government are merging into a muscular octopus of surveillance, data Read More ›
Trudeau Resigns: Canada’s Media Control Bills Are Stymied For Now
Is the Woke war on reality beginning to stall? In Canada, it is a war not only on math, science, and biology, but also history
Facebook Fact-checkers, Facing Doom, Call Urgent Meeting
One possible interpretation is that Zuckerberg was as afraid of these freelance censors as anyone else and saw a chance to neutralize the threat
Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook To Lighten Up on Censorship
He wants to move away from moderation and more towards a Community Notes approach
Is Bluesky Any Better than X? Social Media’s Real Problem Remains
Whatever platform it is, social media will always have toxicity
Australia’s Social Media Ban and Children’s Mental Health
An Australian psychiatrist hopes that his job might become easier in the future due to Australia's coming ban on underage use of social media
Australia’s Social Media Ban: The Law of Forbidden Fruit
Where minors are concerned, restrict and talk — but don’t ban