Chinese tech giant ByteDance has signed an agreement to sell a majority stake in its video platform TikTok to a group of U.S.

Content moderation has always been a nightmare for Meta. Its new content-moderation policy is a huge change — and it could be an improvement. Mark Zuckerberg's "apology tour" from the past few years ...

Spare a thought for the people of Coulsdon, England, who say they’re being categorically oppressed by the heavy hand of algorithmic censorship for no reason other than the seemingly innocuous spelling ...

Social media platforms commonly use artificial intelligence for content moderation, with the AI software itself relying on algorithms to screen content posted by social media users. Ultimately, the AI ...

Oracle has begun auditing TikTok's algorithms and content moderation models, according to a new report from Axios out this morning. Those reviews began last week, and follow TikTok's June announcement ...

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Utilizing regulatory powers under its UDAP law, the Missouri Merchandising Practices Act (the “MMPA”), Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced a new rule, codified as 15 C.S.R § 60-19, that ...

Earlier this month, Facebook’s algorithm flagged 21 posts from the Auschwitz Museum as going against its community standards — and now its parent company Meta is eating crow. In a Facebook post, the ...

Meta AI recognized a hateful account and vile comments that Meta has allowed to persist on Instagram Meta AI struggled to explain why the anti-LGBTQ account Gays Against Groomers has not been removed ...

The Supreme Court issued a ruling today calling into question state laws that block social media companies from making moderation decisions. But in the decision, TikTok caught a stray. The Court did ...

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YouTube commentator AugieRFC faced a temporary channel shutdown due to a false child safety strike, suspected to be a glitch ...