Pew Fact Sheet: “Digital news has become an important part of Americans’ news media diets, with social media playing a crucial role in news consumption. Today, half of U.S. adults get news at least sometimes from social media. News consumption on social media. When it comes to where Americans regularly get news on social media,… Continue Reading
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Social Media at War
LawFare, Online Platforms’ Responses to Terrorism – “These tensions are not new, but the current Israel-Hamas conflict is testing companies in novel ways. Platforms began to aggressively address terrorist material online in response to the Islamic State’s surge of digital activity from 2013 to 2017. But the Islamic State, despite producing a slew of creative… Continue Reading
Israel-Gaza crisis: X fails to remove 98% of posts reported by the CCDH for hate and extremism
Center for Countering Digital Hate: “Elon Musk’s X (previously Twitter) continues to host the overwhelming majority of a sample of posts that breach platform rules for promoting antisemitism, Islamophobia, anti-Palestinian hate and other hateful rhetoric in the wake of the Israel-Gaza crisis, the Center for Countering Digital Hate has found. The CCDH’s study, published Tuesday… Continue Reading
How Much Your Social Media Profile Data Is Worth on the Dark Web
MakeUseOf: “Key Takeaways Hackers often sell stolen data from social media accounts on the dark web, making it a valuable marketplace for criminals. LinkedIn accounts have the highest value on the dark web due to the professional information they contain, while Reddit accounts are the least valuable. To protect your social media profile data from… Continue Reading
Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, November 11, 2023
Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, November 11, 2023 Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the… Continue Reading
Paying for News: What Google and Meta Owe US Publishers — Draft Working Paper
Paying for News: What Google and Meta Owe US Publishers — Draft Working Paper, Working Paper #1 Patrick Holder, Haaris Mateen, Anya Schiffrin, Haris Tabakovic Overview – Paper “This paper estimates the payment that Facebook and Google Search platforms would owe to news publishers for the use of news content, if the Journalism Competition &… Continue Reading
The new Twitter is changing rapidly – study it before it’s too late
Nature: Social-media researchers overemphasized the platform now called X for years. But now, as it rapidly changes into something new and frightening, we risk paying too little attention. “Last month, my team at the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public in Seattle looked at data from X (formerly Twitter) to find the most… Continue Reading
LinkedIn created AI-powered chatbot that can help job seekers find a job
CNBC: LinkedIn said it surpassed 1 billion members and debuted an AI chatbot billed as a “job seeker coach” and other generative AI tools for Premium members. For months, LinkedIn has been unveiling AI tools as the company focuses on automated recruiter messages and job descriptions. Two weeks ago LinkedIn announced nearly 700 job cuts,… Continue Reading
I changed these 11 Facebook settings, and you should too
PC World, Jared Newman: “Whether you love spending time on Facebook or merely do so out of obligation, there are lots of ways to make the experience more tolerable. I’ve been spending a bit more time on the site lately, having been roped into a handful of Facebook Groups that I need to keep tabs… Continue Reading
New on LLRX October 2023 – 10 articles and 6 columns
Articles and Columns for October 2023 Research Guide: Law of Armed Conflict – Jerry Lawson A Compilation of State Licensed Lawyer Databases – Toby Lyles AI in Banking and Finance – October 31, 2023 – This semi-monthly column by Sabrina I. Pacifici highlights news, government documents and reports, industry white papers and academic papers on… Continue Reading
Mastodon Is the Good One
404 Media: “Earlier this week, friend of 404 Media Katie Notopoulos, who is a great journalist and internet knower, wrote an article for MIT Tech Review that you should read, called “How to fix the internet.” The article grapples with 40 years of internet history, Elon Musk, “hellsites,” AI, and disinformation. It ultimately comes to… Continue Reading
Elon Musk Broke All the Tools Historians Need to Archive Tweets About Israel-Gaza War
404 Media: “…When Elon Musk began requiring people to pay steep fees to access the Twitter API earlier this year, he broke a series of tools used by researchers and archivists that could be used to accurately save tweets with metadata. We are now in a situation where the best way to archive “official” information… Continue Reading
