TikTok has risen to stratospheric popularity while getting in the crosshairs of regulators around the world. Now, its sister app, TikTok Lite, is the new subject of scrutiny. The platform, a smaller-scale version of the ByteDance-owned TikTok launched in Spain and France last month, rewards users with “points” for the time they spend watching or […]
Alex Popken was a longtime trust and safety executive at Twitter focusing on content moderation before leaving in 2023. She was the first employee there dedicated to moderating Twitter’s advertising business when she started in 2013. Now, she’s vice president of trust and safety at WebPurify, a content moderation service provider that works with businesses
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An independent Russian news site has reported that a court in Russia convicted the spokesperson of U.S. technology company Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, of justifying terrorism and sentenced him to six years in prison in absentia A court in Russia on Monday convicted the spokesperson of U.S. technology company Meta, which owns Facebook
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RIO DE JANEIRO — Conservative Brazilians heaped praise Sunday on Elon Musk at a rally in support of far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro, whose legal troubles are mounting in tandem with the billionaire entrepreneur’s feud with the South American nation’s Supreme Court. “Brazil Thanks Elon Musk,” read one giant sign in English at the rally
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TikTok is preparing to remove a key executive responsible for convincing the US government that the company was doing enough to stave off national security concerns about its connections to China, according to people familiar with the matter. Erich Andersen, the US-based general counsel for TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance Ltd., has led
The US House on Saturday put legislation forcing TikTok’s Chinese parent ByteDance Ltd. to divest its ownership stake on a fast-track to become law, tying it to a crucial aid package for Ukraine and Israel. A massive lobbying effort led by TikTok Chief Executive Officer Shou Chew failed to overcome a bipartisan coalition worried about
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The New Yorkers who could decide Donald Trump’s fate were vetted in real time on Friday by the former president’s defense team. As the potential alternate jurors were being questioned by prosecutors seeking to convict Trump of illegally paying hush money to a porn star, and by defense attorneys trying to keep him out of
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HONG KONG — Apple said it had removed Meta’s WhatsApp messaging app and its Threads social media app from the App Store in China to comply with orders from Chinese authorities. The apps were removed from the store on Friday after Chinese officials cited unspecified national security concerns. Their removal comes amid elevated tensions between
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Generative AI is advancing so quickly that the latest chatbots available today could be out of date tomorrow. Google, Meta Platforms and OpenAI, along with startups such as Anthropic, Cohere and France’s Mistral, have been churning out new AI language models and hoping to persuade customers they’ve got the smartest, handiest or
NEW YORK (AP) — When the first batch of potential jurors was brought in for Donald Trump‘s criminal trial this week, all the lawyers had to go on to size them up — at first — were their names and the answers they gave in court to a set of screening questions. Then the lawyers
