San Francisco, June 8 (Ians) Meta-owned Instagram’s recommendation algorithms are allegedly promoting networks of pedophiles who commission and sell child sexual abuse content on the popular image sharing platform, the media reported.
In a tweet, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said that the findings are “extremely concerning”.
According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, the platform “helps connect and promote a vast network of accounts openly devoted to the commission and purchase of underage-sex content”.
This was revealed during a joint investigation by The WSJ and researchers at Stanford University and the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
“The Meta unit’s systems for fostering communities have guided users to child-sex content” while the social networking platform has claimed it is “improving internal controls”.
Accounts found by the researchers are advertised using blatant and explicit hashtags like #pedowhore, #preteensex, and #pedobait.
When researchers set up a test account...
In a tweet, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said that the findings are “extremely concerning”.
According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, the platform “helps connect and promote a vast network of accounts openly devoted to the commission and purchase of underage-sex content”.
This was revealed during a joint investigation by The WSJ and researchers at Stanford University and the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
“The Meta unit’s systems for fostering communities have guided users to child-sex content” while the social networking platform has claimed it is “improving internal controls”.
Accounts found by the researchers are advertised using blatant and explicit hashtags like #pedowhore, #preteensex, and #pedobait.
When researchers set up a test account...
- 6/8/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
Prince Harry has landed his second new role in as many days — this time signing up to join a high-powered Aspen Institute commission on what it calls “information disorder.”
Prince Harry is one of 15 commissioners to join the not-for-profit’s initiative, which will consist of a six-month study into the “modern-day crisis” of mis- and disinformation in America.
The commission is co-chaired by journalist Katie Couric, cybersecurity expert Chris Krebs, and Rashad Robinson, the president of Color Of Change. Other commissioners include former Facebook executive Alex Stamos and James Murdoch’s wife Kathryn Murdoch.
It comes as Prince Harry has done little to hide his disdain for certain sections of the press, telling Oprah Winfrey this month that British tabloids are “bigoted” and create a “toxic environment” of “control and fear.”
His wife, Meghan Markle, added that press reporting is amplified by social media. “It was like the Wild, Wild West.
Prince Harry is one of 15 commissioners to join the not-for-profit’s initiative, which will consist of a six-month study into the “modern-day crisis” of mis- and disinformation in America.
The commission is co-chaired by journalist Katie Couric, cybersecurity expert Chris Krebs, and Rashad Robinson, the president of Color Of Change. Other commissioners include former Facebook executive Alex Stamos and James Murdoch’s wife Kathryn Murdoch.
It comes as Prince Harry has done little to hide his disdain for certain sections of the press, telling Oprah Winfrey this month that British tabloids are “bigoted” and create a “toxic environment” of “control and fear.”
His wife, Meghan Markle, added that press reporting is amplified by social media. “It was like the Wild, Wild West.
- 3/24/2021
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
San Francisco/New Delhi, Jan 7 (Ians) As Big Tech miserably failed to spot, act and tackle the US Capitol chaos going viral and being live-streamed, voices grew louder on Thursday to remove President Donald Trump altogether from digital platforms for inciting the mob and staging the coup, saying blocking him for couple of hours won't be enough.
Several tech leaders and social activists called on Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to move beyond labelling Trump messages, and aggressively curb his posts amplifying and endorsing violence.
"Twitter and Facebook have to cut him (Trump) off. There are no legitimate equities left and labeling won't do it," Alex Stamos, Facebook's former chief security officer, said in a tweet.
"You've got blood on your hands, (Jack) and Zuck. For four years you've rationalized this terror. Inciting violent treason is not a free speech exercise. If you work at those companies,...
Several tech leaders and social activists called on Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to move beyond labelling Trump messages, and aggressively curb his posts amplifying and endorsing violence.
"Twitter and Facebook have to cut him (Trump) off. There are no legitimate equities left and labeling won't do it," Alex Stamos, Facebook's former chief security officer, said in a tweet.
"You've got blood on your hands, (Jack) and Zuck. For four years you've rationalized this terror. Inciting violent treason is not a free speech exercise. If you work at those companies,...
- 1/7/2021
- by IANS
- GlamSham
Exclusive: Deadline has the first look at PBS’ trailer for Niall Ferguson’s Networld, a three-episode series exploring the origins of social networks. Check it out above.
The series is written and hosted by Ferguson, a bestselling author and host known for nonfiction work like the International Emmy-winning documentary The Ascent of Money.
Premiering on March 17, the show is inspired by Ferguson’s book, The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook. It combines history and network science to chart the demise of early Silicon Valley visions of a connected, utopian world and the onset of an anxiety-provoking blend of fake news, extreme views and manipulation of public opinion in another election year.
With the influence of such digital platforms as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat and TikTok continuing to grow as ethical and legal questions about them multiply, the show tells the origin story of social networking.
The series is written and hosted by Ferguson, a bestselling author and host known for nonfiction work like the International Emmy-winning documentary The Ascent of Money.
Premiering on March 17, the show is inspired by Ferguson’s book, The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook. It combines history and network science to chart the demise of early Silicon Valley visions of a connected, utopian world and the onset of an anxiety-provoking blend of fake news, extreme views and manipulation of public opinion in another election year.
With the influence of such digital platforms as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat and TikTok continuing to grow as ethical and legal questions about them multiply, the show tells the origin story of social networking.
- 2/7/2020
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
Sending a jolt through a luxurious and excessively polite afternoon in Beverly Hills, veteran journalist Katie Couric delivered a relentless series of hardball questions to Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg on Tuesday.
Speaking in conversation at the sixth annual Vanity Fair New Establishment summit at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Couric’s agenda for the panel, titled Putting a Best Facebook Forward, was unlike its predecessors, which mostly featured jokes about wealth taxes in between sips from mint-infused glass water canteens.
It played like a primetime inquisition, electrifying a sleepy audience taking refuge from the Los Angeles heat after lunch. The conversational volley inspired laughter, gasps and even feedback from the staffer writing teleprompter copy.
Couric immediately went in on Mark Zuckerberg’s just-unveiled plan to protect Facebook users from fake news and state-sponsored attacks ahead of the 2020 election, asking Sandberg if she really believed that...
Speaking in conversation at the sixth annual Vanity Fair New Establishment summit at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Couric’s agenda for the panel, titled Putting a Best Facebook Forward, was unlike its predecessors, which mostly featured jokes about wealth taxes in between sips from mint-infused glass water canteens.
It played like a primetime inquisition, electrifying a sleepy audience taking refuge from the Los Angeles heat after lunch. The conversational volley inspired laughter, gasps and even feedback from the staffer writing teleprompter copy.
Couric immediately went in on Mark Zuckerberg’s just-unveiled plan to protect Facebook users from fake news and state-sponsored attacks ahead of the 2020 election, asking Sandberg if she really believed that...
- 10/22/2019
- by Matt Donnelly
- Variety Film + TV
Spencer Mullen Aug 6, 2019
A Black Lady Sketch Show, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Stranger Things, and more in today's daily Link Tank!
Here's how using gender-neutral pronouns can change society for the better.
"Slowly but steadily, the use of gender-neutral pronouns like “they” and “them” to refer to people who prefer not to be gendered is becoming more widely adopted. Yet the practice has its opponents, and they’re particularly vocal. The controversial Canadian academic Jordan Peterson, for one, has railed against it as part of a greater campaign against political correctness. But as researchers show Monday in Pnas, using gender-neutral pronouns has less to do with political correctness and more to do with changing perceptions toward historically marginalized groups for the better."
Read more at Inverse.
A Black Lady Sketch Show is a hilarious and groundbreaking new comedy from HBO.
"On Friday, HBO aired the first episode of A Black Lady Sketch Show,...
A Black Lady Sketch Show, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Stranger Things, and more in today's daily Link Tank!
Here's how using gender-neutral pronouns can change society for the better.
"Slowly but steadily, the use of gender-neutral pronouns like “they” and “them” to refer to people who prefer not to be gendered is becoming more widely adopted. Yet the practice has its opponents, and they’re particularly vocal. The controversial Canadian academic Jordan Peterson, for one, has railed against it as part of a greater campaign against political correctness. But as researchers show Monday in Pnas, using gender-neutral pronouns has less to do with political correctness and more to do with changing perceptions toward historically marginalized groups for the better."
Read more at Inverse.
A Black Lady Sketch Show is a hilarious and groundbreaking new comedy from HBO.
"On Friday, HBO aired the first episode of A Black Lady Sketch Show,...
- 8/6/2019
- Den of Geek
Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg publicly addressed a damaging New York Times report that raised questions about her response to mounting evidence that the social network could be exploited to disrupt elections or to spread hatred and propaganda.
The executive said she and CEO Mark Zuckerberg have acknowledged, many times, that they were too slow to respond to Russian interference during the 2016 election. But she took issue with the Times report that she sought to downplay foreign involvement, and grew angry when Facebook’s chief security officer, Alex Stamos, had directed a team to scrutinize the extent of Russian activity on the platform.
“To suggest that we weren’t interested in knowing the truth, or we wanted to hide what we knew, or that we tried to prevent investigations, is simply untrue,” Sandberg wrote tonight in a Facebook post. “The allegations saying I personally stood in the way are also just plain wrong.
The executive said she and CEO Mark Zuckerberg have acknowledged, many times, that they were too slow to respond to Russian interference during the 2016 election. But she took issue with the Times report that she sought to downplay foreign involvement, and grew angry when Facebook’s chief security officer, Alex Stamos, had directed a team to scrutinize the extent of Russian activity on the platform.
“To suggest that we weren’t interested in knowing the truth, or we wanted to hide what we knew, or that we tried to prevent investigations, is simply untrue,” Sandberg wrote tonight in a Facebook post. “The allegations saying I personally stood in the way are also just plain wrong.
- 11/16/2018
- by Dawn C. Chmielewski
- Deadline Film + TV
Google said it has terminated dozens of YouTube channels and other accounts spreading misinformation on behalf of the Iran’s state-owned broadcaster.
The announcement marks the third time this week that a major technology company has shut down abuse of its platform by foreign actors.
Google said it terminated 39 YouTube channels, 13 Google+ accounts and six blogs on Blogger that were linked to the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting. The YouTube channels reached about 13,466 viewers in the U.S.
“Actors engaged in this type of influence operation violate our policies, and we swiftly remove such content from our services and terminate these actors’ accounts,” wrote Kent Walker, Google’s senior vice president of global affairs.
In this case, Google’s own Threat Analysis Group, working together with the Alphabet-incubated security firm Jigsaw, and independent cybersecurity firm FireEye, to identify the influence operation tied to Iran. FireEye flagged some suspicious Google accounts,...
The announcement marks the third time this week that a major technology company has shut down abuse of its platform by foreign actors.
Google said it terminated 39 YouTube channels, 13 Google+ accounts and six blogs on Blogger that were linked to the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting. The YouTube channels reached about 13,466 viewers in the U.S.
“Actors engaged in this type of influence operation violate our policies, and we swiftly remove such content from our services and terminate these actors’ accounts,” wrote Kent Walker, Google’s senior vice president of global affairs.
In this case, Google’s own Threat Analysis Group, working together with the Alphabet-incubated security firm Jigsaw, and independent cybersecurity firm FireEye, to identify the influence operation tied to Iran. FireEye flagged some suspicious Google accounts,...
- 8/23/2018
- by Dawn C. Chmielewski
- Deadline Film + TV
Washington — Facebook said that it has removed more than two dozen pages and accounts that were involved in “coordinated inauthentic behavior,” including those that are trying to stoke political divisions, but it has yet to definitively determine whether Russian sources were behind the activity.
In a conference call with reporters, Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg said that it was still too early to judge whether the accounts were attempting to influence the midterm elections, although some of them were promoting events tied to polarizing political issues. One account was for a group, called Resisters, planning to protest a planned Unite the Right march in Washington next week. Called “No Unite the Right 2 — DC,” it was scheduled for Aug. 10-12.
“We’re still in the very early stages of our investigation and don’t have all the facts — including who may be behind this.” the company said in a statement. “But we...
In a conference call with reporters, Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg said that it was still too early to judge whether the accounts were attempting to influence the midterm elections, although some of them were promoting events tied to polarizing political issues. One account was for a group, called Resisters, planning to protest a planned Unite the Right march in Washington next week. Called “No Unite the Right 2 — DC,” it was scheduled for Aug. 10-12.
“We’re still in the very early stages of our investigation and don’t have all the facts — including who may be behind this.” the company said in a statement. “But we...
- 7/31/2018
- by Ted Johnson
- Variety Film + TV
Facebook, still grappling with the the fallout from the Cambridge Analytica data-privacy scandal, shared details of new measures it’s taking to prevent “foreign actors” from trying to affect U.S. elections leading up to the 2018 midterms.
The company last fall disclosed that Russia-linked content — designed to spread fear and sow discord among Facebook’s U.S. user base — reached an estimated 126 million Americans on the platform during the 2016 campaign season and into 2017. In addition to Facebook, content from Russian operatives also was spread via Twitter.
After taking fire from lawmakers over Facebook’s role in facilitating Russia’s social-engineering attempts in the 2016 election cycle, the social-media giant has tried be forthcoming about what it’s trying to do to address the complaints.
Clearly, in 2016, Facebook was unprepared for such surreptitious gaming of its platform by foreign powers. CEO Mark Zuckerberg, in an interview last week with CNN, said, “I...
The company last fall disclosed that Russia-linked content — designed to spread fear and sow discord among Facebook’s U.S. user base — reached an estimated 126 million Americans on the platform during the 2016 campaign season and into 2017. In addition to Facebook, content from Russian operatives also was spread via Twitter.
After taking fire from lawmakers over Facebook’s role in facilitating Russia’s social-engineering attempts in the 2016 election cycle, the social-media giant has tried be forthcoming about what it’s trying to do to address the complaints.
Clearly, in 2016, Facebook was unprepared for such surreptitious gaming of its platform by foreign powers. CEO Mark Zuckerberg, in an interview last week with CNN, said, “I...
- 3/29/2018
- by Todd Spangler
- Variety Film + TV
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