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fromInsideHook
16 hours ago

Why Would Amazon Remove All of James Bond's Guns?

There are a few iconic things that will always signal we're watching a James Bond movie: A Martini, shaken not stirred; our hero behind the wheel of a gorgeous Aston Martin; and, of course, an opening sequence that features 007 pointing a gun directly at the audience and shooting, with a classic theme song blaring as a blood red animation drips down the screen.
Film
fromFuturism
4 hours ago

OpenAI's Sora 2 Already Melting Down Into Outrageous Drama

It's becoming increasingly clear that OpenAI put staggeringly little thought into the rollout of Sora 2, its latest text-to-video generating app, a "move fast and break things" approach that has resulted in plenty of drama. Last week, the Sam Altman-led company released the TikTok-style app that churns out endless feeds of low-rent and mind-numbing AI slop. It's an " unholy abomination" that intentionally encourages users to generate deepfakes of others,
Artificial intelligence
Marketing
fromExchangewire
7 hours ago

Navigating Brand Safety in 2025: Insights from the Ad Industry

Brand safety remains crucial in 2025; advertisers must balance risk, contextual targeting, and platform choices to protect reputation and reach premium audiences.
Artificial intelligence
fromThe Verge
8 hours ago

Sora provides better control over videos featuring your AI self

Sora adds user controls to limit how AI-generated deepfake doubles appear, offering content and appearance restrictions while risks of misuse and weak safeguards remain.
Digital life
fromSocial Media Today
1 day ago

Threads Makes it Easier to Hide Unwanted Post Replies

Threads users can hide replies from a post's options menu; hidden replies are visible only to the hider and the reply author and can be unhidden.
#bluesky
#ai-generated-video
Artificial intelligence
fromApp Developer Magazine
9 months ago

Huawei improves censoring with co-developed DeepSeek model

Huawei developed DeepSeek-R1-Safe to filter politically sensitive and harmful online content, aligning model behavior with Chinese regulatory requirements while preserving operational performance.
#tiktok
#ai-video-generation
fromElectronic Frontier Foundation
1 week ago

Tips to Protect Your Posts About Reproductive Health From Being Removed

Meta has been getting content moderation wrong for years, like most platforms that host user-generated content. Sometimes it's a result of deliberate design choices-privacy rollbacks, opaque policies, features that prioritize growth over safety-made even when the company knows that those choices could negatively impact users. Other times, it's simply the inevitable outcome of trying to govern billions of posts with a mix of algorithms and overstretched human reviewers.
US politics
Video games
fromwww.mercurynews.com
4 days ago

Roblox curbs on sensitive' games criticized by advocacy groups

Roblox's parental-approval policy classifies equality and human-rights topics as sensitive, prompting criticism that it limits creative expression and harms representation.
#abortion-access
fromJezebel
2 weeks ago
US politics

Crucial Information About Abortion Access Is Getting Censored on Social Media

fromJezebel
2 weeks ago
US politics

Crucial Information About Abortion Access Is Getting Censored on Social Media

#youtube
fromFast Company
5 days ago
Digital life

From Khan Academy to Skibidi Toilet: The inside story of how YouTube's creators saved the platform

fromFast Company
5 days ago
Digital life

From Khan Academy to Skibidi Toilet: The inside story of how YouTube's creators saved the platform

fromZDNET
5 days ago

This silent Android feature scans your photos for 'sensitive content' - how to disable it

Without directly naming SafetyCore, Google explained that the optional setting can blur photos that may contain nudity and display a warning before you view or share them. Sensitive Content Warnings appears to use SafetyCore to analyze images locally on your device. Google has emphasized that SafetyCore runs entirely on your phone -- images don't leave your device, and Google doesn't know if nudity was flagged.
Gadgets
fromThe Verge
5 days ago

Google is blocking AI searches for Trump and dementia

Google appears to have blocked AI search results for the query "does trump show signs of dementia" as well as other questions about his mental acuity, even though it will show AI results for similar searches about other presidents. When making the search about President Trump, AI Overviews will display a message that says, "An AI Overview is not available for this search":
US politics
Public health
fromElectronic Frontier Foundation
5 days ago

Decoding Meta's Advertising Policies for Abortion Content

Meta's advertising policies impose stricter rules on abortion-related paid content—especially medication abortion—and in practice create barriers that often prevent promotion of such posts.
Mobile UX
fromTechCrunch
6 days ago

Hinge is taking a fairer approach to account banning | TechCrunch

Hinge will flag and remove specific profile violations rather than ban entire accounts, keep profiles hidden until fixed, notify users, and still ban repeat offenders.
#youtube-settlement
#misinformation
US politics
fromsfist.com
1 week ago

YouTube Accounts Previously Banned for Misinformation Could Now be Reinstated

YouTube is offering a limited pilot allowing some permanently banned creators, including those removed for COVID-19 and 2020 election misinformation, to apply for reinstatement.
#ai-generated-music
#ai-generated-content
fromComputerworld
1 week ago
Artificial intelligence

It's time to push back against the AI internet

Most new online content is generated by AI or bots, and content companies must prioritize blocking low-quality AI-generated material.
fromFast Company
1 month ago
Artificial intelligence

What is AI slop? A technologist explains the pros and cons of this form of content

AI slop—low- to mid-quality AI-generated media—floods social platforms, exploits attention economics, and displaces higher-quality, accurate content.
Music
fromLos Angeles Times
1 week ago

Spotify says it removed millions of 'spammy' AI-generated music tracks

Spotify removed over 75 million AI-generated spam tracks, tightened impersonation enforcement, introduced spam filters, and will require artist authorization and labeling for AI vocal usage.
#teen-safety
fromTechCrunch
1 week ago
Privacy technologies

Meta rolls out Teen Accounts on Facebook and Messenger globally | TechCrunch

fromTechCrunch
1 month ago
Artificial intelligence

Meta updates chatbot rules to avoid inappropriate topics with teen users | TechCrunch

fromTechCrunch
1 week ago
Privacy technologies

Meta rolls out Teen Accounts on Facebook and Messenger globally | TechCrunch

fromTechCrunch
1 month ago
Artificial intelligence

Meta updates chatbot rules to avoid inappropriate topics with teen users | TechCrunch

Venture
fromAlleywatch
1 week ago

Vylit Raises $2.7M for its AI-Powered Creator Monetization Platform

Vylit is an 18+ social-meets-creator platform using AI discovery, built-in monetization, and safety tools to let anyone earn from content without prior followings.
fromObserver
1 week ago

The New Patronage: A.I., Algorithms and the Economics of Creativity

The cost of making high-quality media is collapsing. The cost of getting anyone to care about it is not. As generative A.I. turns production into a near-commodity, cultural power is shifting from studios and galleries to the platforms that allocate attention and the algorithms that determine who gets paid. The new patrons are not moguls with checkbooks; they are recommendation systems tuned for engagement and brand safety.
Media industry
Privacy technologies
fromMedium
1 month ago

Child Safety vs. Corporate Profits Online

Publicly traded social gaming platforms prioritize monetization over child safety, causing inadequate moderation, adult sexual content, and weak age verification.
US politics
fromTechCrunch
1 week ago

YouTube will reinstate accounts banned for spreading misinformation | TechCrunch

YouTube will allow creators previously terminated for repeated COVID-19 and election integrity policy violations that are no longer in effect to rejoin the platform.
US politics
fromBusiness Insider
1 week ago

Mark Zuckerberg wrote the playbook for Big Tech leaders dealing with Republicans. Google paid attention.

Big Tech denies systemic conservative bias while blaming the Biden administration and issuing letters that politically aid Republicans without admitting major wrongdoing.
US politics
fromwww.mediaite.com
1 week ago

Google Admits to Congress The Biden Admin 'Pressed' YouTube to Censor COVID 'Misinformation'

The Biden administration pressured Google and YouTube to remove content labeled COVID-19 misinformation, and Google now urges reinstatement of conservatives removed under scrapped rules.
fromPinkNews | Latest lesbian, gay, bi and trans news | LGBTQ+ news
1 week ago

Harry Potter star says OnlyFans account got her barred from fan convention

"I found out that I didn't get booked for a Harry Potter convention recently, as I'm now doing OnlyFans. They explained it was because it's a 'family show and OnlyFans is affiliated with porn,'" she wrote. "This was baffling to me as some actors who do conventions (most actors, actually) have done TV and films in which they've done sex scenes and nudity. I'm just playing with my hair!"
Film
fromTheregister
1 week ago

China tells grumps, trolls, and AIs to behave online

The administration's announcement of the campaign explains it will target social media platforms, short video services, the livestreaming platforms used by Chinese e-commerce sites to host infomercials and even delve into comments left across the internet. Some of the material Beijing wants to root out - such as content that incites violence - would likely fall foul of content moderators in many nations.
World news
Artificial intelligence
fromFuturism
1 week ago

xAI Workers Leak Disturbing Information About Grok Users

xAI's Grok chatbot is being used for sexually explicit content, including AI-generated child sexual abuse material, amid company turmoil and lax content controls.
#tiktok-shop
UK politics
fromTESLARATI
2 weeks ago

UK Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey accuses Elon Musk of "crimes" on X

Sir Ed Davey urged Ofcom to investigate Elon Musk for alleged breaches of the Online Safety Act and hosting harmful content on X.
fromWIRED
2 weeks ago

I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley. I Was Wrong

For decades, Mark Lemley's life as an intellectual property lawyer was orderly enough. He's a professor at Stanford University and has consulted for Amazon, Google, and Meta. "I always enjoyed that the area I practice in has largely been apolitical," Lemley tells me. What's more, his democratic values neatly aligned with those of the companies that hired him. But in January, Lemley made a radical move. "I have struggled with how to respond to Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook's descent into toxic masculinity and Neo-Nazi madness," he posted on LinkedIn. "I have fired Meta as a client."
US politics
Artificial intelligence
fromBusiness Insider
2 weeks ago

Behind Grok's 'sexy' settings, workers review explicit and disturbing content

xAI's Grok is intentionally designed to enable provocative sexual content, resulting in worker exposure and instances of AI-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM).
Information security
fromAxios
2 weeks ago

Rise of the new radical internet

Closed gaming forums and pseudonymous gaming spaces facilitate radicalization, hate, and exploitation, while platform moderation and research visibility remain insufficient to protect vulnerable young users.
Privacy professionals
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

Parents outraged as Meta uses photos of schoolgirls in ads targeting man

Meta used parents' Instagram photos of schoolgirls, including minors' faces and names, to promote Threads to an unrelated 37-year-old, without parents' awareness.
Public health
fromElectronic Frontier Foundation
2 weeks ago

Companies Must Provide Accurate and Transparent Information to Users When Posts are Removed

Meta's DOI policy and enforcement are overly broad and opaque, causing removal of reproductive health content and disproportionately impacting marginalized voices.
Film
fromRoger Ebert
2 weeks ago

The First Responders of the Internet: Lili Reinhart on "American Sweatshop" | Interviews | Roger Ebert

Content moderation desensitizes and damages workers’ mental health, leading one moderator to obsessively investigate a traumatizing video.
Privacy technologies
fromThe Verge
2 weeks ago

Google is partnering with StopNCII to combat nonconsensual images

Google will use StopNCII.org's image and video hashes to proactively identify and remove non-consensual intimate imagery from search results.
Film
fromThe Verge
2 weeks ago

American Sweatshop depicts content moderation as the hell it is

American Sweatshop examines the psychological toll on content moderators who ingest horrific online material to keep the internet functioning.
#social-media
fromFortune
2 weeks ago
Digital life

Some conservatives, claiming they're at 'war,' comb social media for liberals celebrating Charlie Kirk's death, trying to get them fired over speech | Fortune

Social media dominated public response to Charlie Kirk's killing, amplifying polarization, algorithmic harms, and global consequences from platform policies.
fromWRAL.com
3 weeks ago
Media industry

Widespread availability of graphic Charlie Kirk shooting video shows content moderation challenges

Graphic videos of Charlie Kirk's shooting spread widely and persistently across major social media platforms despite content moderation efforts.
fromFortune
2 weeks ago
Digital life

Some conservatives, claiming they're at 'war,' comb social media for liberals celebrating Charlie Kirk's death, trying to get them fired over speech | Fortune

fromWRAL.com
3 weeks ago
Media industry

Widespread availability of graphic Charlie Kirk shooting video shows content moderation challenges

Artificial intelligence
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

ChatGPT developing age verification system to identify under-18 users after teen death

OpenAI will restrict ChatGPT responses for suspected under-18 users, using age-prediction technology or ID verification and applying stricter safety measures including blocking sexual content.
Artificial intelligence
fromThe Verge
2 weeks ago

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will stop talking about suicide with teens

OpenAI will build age-prediction and apply stricter, teen-specific rules for ChatGPT, limiting flirtatious or self-harm content and escalating parental contact for suicidal ideation.
Artificial intelligence
fromThe Atlantic
2 weeks ago

The Strange and Erotic World of Elon Musk's Chatbot

Grok chatbot generated violent, racist, and sexualized content; xAI updated Grok's system prompt to ban child sexual abuse material while expanding sexual content parameters.
Public health
fromFortune
2 weeks ago

Facebook, TikTok and even LinkedIn are censoring abortion content even when it's just medical information, rights groups say | Fortune

Abortion-related informational content and accounts are being removed or suspended on social platforms, often due to over-enforcement and automated moderation, chilling vital information.
Information security
fromWIRED
2 weeks ago

Matthew Prince Wants AI Companies to Pay for Their Sins

Cloudflare enables websites to block unauthorized AI scraping via a pay-per-crawl model while evolving content-moderation stances and protecting sites from abuse and DDoS attacks.
Public health
fromwww.orlandosentinel.com
3 weeks ago

Abortion advocates raise alarm about social platforms removing posts in apparent overreach

Social media platforms are over-enforcing moderation and removing abortion-related informational content, causing chilling effects and difficult appeals.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
3 weeks ago

Navigating Algospeak on Social Media

Algorithmic social-media censorship forces users into coded language, suppresses open sexual discourse, and undermines accurate communication and healing around sexuality.
US politics
fromThe Verge
3 weeks ago

Elon Musk is trying to silence Microsoft employees who criticize Charlie Kirk

Elon Musk urged Satya Nadella to investigate Blizzard employees flagged for criticizing Charlie Kirk, prompting Microsoft to review employee conduct.
Social media marketing
fromAP News
3 weeks ago

Widespread availability of graphic Charlie Kirk shooting video shows content moderation challenges

Graphic videos of Charlie Kirk's public shooting spread rapidly across major social platforms and remained accessible despite moderation efforts and ambiguous policies.
Artificial intelligence
fromFuturism
3 weeks ago

It Turns Out That Google's AI Is Being Trained by an Army of Poorly Treated Human Grunts

Large-scale AI models depend on thousands of hidden, low-paid human contractors who perform hazardous moderation and labeling work essential to model performance.
fromTechCrunch
3 weeks ago

Mastodon rolls out quote posts with protections to prevent 'dunking' | TechCrunch

Mastodon, an open source, decentralized alternative to X, is rolling out a somewhat controversial feature by adding quote posts, which will launch next week. The feature, which allows a user to quote someone else's post and re-share it with their own response or commentary, has contributed to a culture of " dunking " on X, where users often deride other people by responding with snark or insulting humor. To address this concern, Mastodon says it's implementing quote posts with safety controls.
Online Community Development
Mental health
fromAxios
3 weeks ago

America's digital morgue pumps collective trauma into daily life

Continuous online exposure to graphic violence, amplified by lax moderation on platforms like X, is reshaping how millions process trauma and experience the world.
Artificial intelligence
fromUX Magazine
1 month ago

The Price of the Mirror: When Silicon Valley Colonizes the Human Soul

AI's visible intelligence depends on low-paid Global South workers who perform traumatic judgment labor while industry profits and keeps them invisible.
Digital life
fromMashable
3 weeks ago

How to stop videos from autoplaying on X

Disable autoplay on X to prevent videos from automatically playing and reduce exposure to disturbing video content.
Digital life
fromPoynter
3 weeks ago

The human cost of witnessing violence online - Poynter

Early, accidental exposure to graphic violence online can produce lasting vicarious trauma, and social platforms enable rapid, wide distribution of such harmful content.
#graphic-violence
fromForbes
3 weeks ago

How Can Social Media Companies Help Stop The Spread Of Extremism?

Over the past 15 years, I briefed each of these companies about this complex issue. The first such briefing, back in December 2010, focused on my research on how Al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups were using YouTube to radicalize young people in the West. At Google's invitation, I met with senior Google representatives, including its head of public relations and policy, senior policy manager, senior policy counsel and free speech attorney, at the company's Washington, D.C., office.
World news
Artificial intelligence
fromCreative Bloq
4 weeks ago

AI regulation is coming to videos, here's how you can handle it

Creators must prioritise authentic, high-quality video content and responsible AI use as platforms increase enforcement against low-quality or duplicate AI-generated material.
#meta
Media industry
fromThe Verge
1 month ago

Wikipedia is under attack - and how it can survive

Wikipedia editors rapidly update pages, but Musk's alleged Nazi-salute gesture prompted delayed inclusion, a contested edit, and debate over biographies-of-living-persons standards.
US news
fromThe Verge
1 month ago

Pornhub will only have to pay $5 million to settle CSAM, exploitation allegations

Pornhub and parent Aylo will pay $5 million and implement policies to address allegations of CSAM and nonconsensual content.
#openai
fromTechCrunch
1 month ago
Artificial intelligence

OpenAI to route sensitive conversations to GPT-5, introduce parental controls | TechCrunch

fromFuturism
1 month ago
Privacy technologies

People Are Furious That OpenAI Is Reporting ChatGPT Conversations to Law Enforcement

fromFuturism
1 month ago
Artificial intelligence

OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police

fromTechCrunch
1 month ago
Artificial intelligence

OpenAI to route sensitive conversations to GPT-5, introduce parental controls | TechCrunch

fromFuturism
1 month ago
Privacy technologies

People Are Furious That OpenAI Is Reporting ChatGPT Conversations to Law Enforcement

fromFuturism
1 month ago
Artificial intelligence

OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police

fromwww.bbc.com
1 month ago

Kick accuses French authorities of politicising streamer's death

"This is not about creator safety, customer safety, or the well-being of the industry, but rather a politicised narrative that takes advantage of a tragic personal loss," Kick told BBC News.
France news
US politics
fromSocial Media Today
1 month ago

Meta Shares Latest Data on Policy Enforcements and Content Trends

Enforcement mistakes fell over 75% weekly in the U.S.; 97.8% of US views lacked external links; 74% of 300+ recommendations showed implementation or progress.
France news
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

France to sue Kick for alleged negligence over livestream death

France will sue Kick for alleged negligence after a 46-year-old streamer died during a 12-day livestream; authorities opened investigations into content moderation and DSA compliance.
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