… Since 2021, amendments to the Indian IT rules have been building pressure on social media platforms. Companies have had to set up local offices, appoint grievance officers, and add AI labeling to comply with new rules. …
… By Indranil Ghosh Tech Giants Big Tech, big cons: Scammers are hiding in the apps that make your life easy In her new book “Bharat Bluff: Inside the Cons of India’s Internet Revolution,” writer Soumya Gupta explores how fraudsters are exploiting the trust people place in big tech platforms like Goo… …
… By Ananya Bhattacharya Tech Giants Big Tech, big cons: Scammers are hiding in the apps that make your life easy In her new book “Bharat Bluff: Inside the Cons of India’s Internet Revolution,” writer Soumya Gupta explores how fraudsters are exploiting the trust people place in big tech platforms lik… …
… In response, RedNote added translation features to the app. “RedNote’s U.S. expansion is a culmination of years of organically building a global footprint through the Chinese diaspora who already use and love the app,” Ivy Yang, founder of the New York-based consultancy Wavelet Strategy, told Rest … …
… Other top accounts in the country include traditional news brands like Kompas, Tribunnews, and Liputan6. “People pay a lot more attention to traditional news brands on Facebook than they do on TikTok,” journalist and digital strategist Nic Newman told Rest of World . …
… Countries including Malaysia, Indonesia, and several states in India are passing laws to keep young users off the platforms. …
… As a new child safety law comes into effect in Brazil from March, requiring platforms providing gambling, pornography, and other such content to verify ages, users are learning to circumvent the tech, Simone Lahorgue Nunes, founding partner at law firm Lahorgue Advogadas Associadas in Rio de Janeir… …
… Machine moderation is not new — it has been the majority of moderation across all platforms ever since the Oversight Board was founded — but the tools have gotten more sophisticated over time, Krishnaswamy acknowledged. …
… Thousands of lawsuits have been filed in the U.S. alone, and earlier, a court in New Mexico state ordered Meta to pay $375 million after the company was found to have concealed what it knew about child sexual exploitation on its platforms. …
… The harder — and more necessary — conversation is this: Instead of repeatedly fretting over how to keep children away from platforms, we should be demanding safer platforms. …