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The social media platform formerly known as Twitter has officially transitioned its website address from Twitter.com to X.com, closing a chapter in its history. This final change comes after the billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk acquired the platform back in 2022 and initiated a rebranding process, renaming it simply "X". Musk posted the news of the switch with a minimalist post on the platform that read "All core systems are now on X.com". Typing "twitter.com" in a web browser now redirect users to the platform’s new URL address. The address redirect followed several changes including the sign...
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For the second day in a row, the shares of US video game retailer GameStop Corp and movie theatre chain AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc have seen their prices soaring by more than 70% - and the reason is a single social media post. This is what market experts call a "meme rally", involving retail market traders flocking into "meme stocks", buying up the shares of companies with cult-like social media followers. They hit the 'buy' button based on sympathy or trends on social media, rather than profit, income or any other indicator of how the investment is about to perform. Following a relatively...
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TikTok will begin labelling content created using artificial intelligence (AI) when content is uploaded from outside its platform. TikTok says its efforts are an attempt to combat misinformation from being spread on its social media platform. “AI enables incredible creative opportunities, but can confuse or mislead viewers if they don’t know (the) content was AI-generated,” the company said in a prepared statement Thursday. "Labeling helps make that context clear – which is why we label AIGC made with TikTok AI effects and have required creators to label realistic AIGC for over a year". The mo...
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Social media platform TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance are suing the United States over a law that would force the company to sell the popular video-sharing app or face a ban. The lawsuit filed on Tuesday may be setting up what could be a protracted legal fight over TikTok's future in the US. The popular social video company alleged the law, which president Joe Biden signed as part of a larger $95 billion foreign aid package, is so "obviously unconstitutional" that the sponsors of The Protecting Americans From Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act are trying to portray t...
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A new lawsuit asks whether social media users can control what they see on their Facebook feeds. Last week, the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University filed a lawsuit against Meta, Facebook's parent company, on behalf of a professor who wants to release a tool to empower social media users. University of Massachusetts Amherst professor Ethan Zuckerman would like to release a tool called "Unfollow Everything 2.0". This browser extension "would allow Facebook users to automatically unfollow their friends, groups, and pages, and, in doing so, to effectively turn off their newsfee...
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Jack Dorsey has left Bluesky, the decentralised social media platform that he helped start. Dorsey, who also founded Twitter (now X), revealed he was no longer on Bluesky’s board after an X user asked him. Dorsey replied a simple “no” on Saturday. A day later, Bluesky said in a statement that it thanked him for “his help funding and initiating the bluesky project. Today, Bluesky is thriving as an open source social network running on atproto, the decentralised protocol we have built. “With Jack’s departure, we are searching for a new board member for the Bluesky public benefit company who shar...
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Children under three years old should not have any screen time and up to age six it should be “strongly limited,” according to an expert panel commissioned by French President Emmanuel Macron. The panel also said on Tuesday that children under the age of 11 should not be allowed a mobile phone and anyone under 13 should not own a phone with internet access. Meanwhile, social media use should be forbidden for anyone under 15 and those above that age should only have access to ethical platforms such as Bluesky. The experts said social media can be a “risk factor” for depression and anxiety, and ...
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This June, some 365 million people will be eligible to vote in the EU Elections, including many young voters for whom social media is a vital resource for campaigning. Four countries – Belgium, Germany, Malta and Austria – will allow 16-year-olds to vote, in Greece the minimum age to vote is 17. Five years ago, when the last EU vote was held, the regulatory landscape for online platforms was quite different: there were fewer rules on combating misinformation, and the AI Act did not yet exist. We take a look at how platform regulation in the EU has changed in 2024, compared to the last election...
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French President Emmanuel Macron said in a speech this week that he would like to see Europe create a “digital majority” of 15, meaning that before that age, parents would control access to the “digital space”. France enacted a law in July 2023 that requires online social network service providers operating in France to refuse children under 15 unless expressly authorised by one of their parents or guardians. Failure to comply with this obligation could result in the social platform being fined up to one per cent of its worldwide sales. “Does anyone send their child into the jungle at 5, 10 or...
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TikTok has voluntarily suspended the rewards functions in its TikTok Lite app in the wake of European Commission investigations, the social media announced today (24 April). The suspension will start as of today for an initial period of 60 days for new users and by the end of the week for all other users in France and Spain. The roll-out in other member states has been paused as well. "TikTok always seeks to engage constructively with the EU Commission and other regulators. We are therefore voluntarily suspending the rewards functions in TikTok Lite while we address the concerns that they have...
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