Tag: Facebook Inc

Big Tech Is Getting Clobbered on Wall Street. It’s a Good Time for Them.

Tim Cook, Apple’s chief executive, has a longstanding philosophy that Apple should continue to invest for the future…

Facebook Has Been Monetizing Searches for the Buffalo Shooting Video

People searching on Facebook for footage of Saturday’s racist shooting rampage in Buffalo, N.Y., may have come across…

Livestreams of Mass Shootings: From Buffalo to New Zealand

Many of the sites tried taking down the videos as they were uploaded but were overwhelmed. Facebook said…

Livestreams of Mass Shootings: From Buffalo to New Zealand

Many of the sites tried taking down the videos as they were uploaded but were overwhelmed. Facebook said…

After Buffalo Shooting Video Spreads, Social Platforms Face Questions

“This spreads like a virus,” Ms. Hochul said, demanding that social media executives evaluate their policies to ensure…

Appeals Court Revives Texas Law Targeting Social Media Companies

A Texas law prohibiting large social media companies from removing political speech became the first of its kind…

In the Philippines, a Flourishing Ecosystem for Political Lies

CAVITE, Philippines — Arnel Agravante, a YouTuber in the Philippines, told his followers last October that he knew…

An Unsteady Moment for Tech

We are in an odd moment for technology. Can you feel it? The powerful forces of unstoppable change…

As Europe Approves New Tech Laws, the U.S. Falls Further Behind

In just the last few years, Europe has seen a sweeping law for online privacy take effect, approved…

E.U. Takes Aim at Social Media’s Harms With Landmark New Law

The European Union was nearing a deal on Friday on landmark legislation that would force Facebook, YouTube and…

Barack Obama’s New Role: Fighting Disinformation

Republicans, for their part, accuse the companies of suppressing free speech by censoring conservative voices — above all…

A.I. Is Mastering Language. Should We Trust What It Says?

But as GPT-3’s fluency has dazzled many observers, the large-language-model approach has also attracted significant criticism over the…