Category: Media & Big Tech

Twitter to Offer Ad Revenue Share to Select Content Creators

July 14, 2023
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Twitter said on Thursday that select content creators on the social media platform will be eligible to get a part of the advertising revenue the company earns. The content creators will get a share of revenue from ads displayed in their replies, Twitter said, adding that to be eligible the creators should be verified users…

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Meta Vows to Deal With ‘Hate Speech’ in Upcoming Vote on Changing Australia’s Constitution

July 14, 2023
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Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta (formerly Facebook) will provide a “one-off funding boost” to third-party fact-checkers in the lead-up to a national referendum on whether to change the Australian Constitution. The tech giant will work with RMIT CrossCheck to monitor “misinformation trends” leading up to the contentious Indigenous Voice to Parliament proposal, and will share guidance on…

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Google Rolls out AI Chatbot Bard to Europe and Brazil and Adds More Features

July 13, 2023
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LONDON—Google said Thursday that it’s rolling out its AI-powered chatbot Bard across Europe and in Brazil, expanding its availability to hundreds of millions more users. The company also said it’s adding more features to Bard as it scrambles to keep up with rival Microsoft—which uses OpenAI’s popular ChatGPT service in its Bing search engine—in the…

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Google Being Sued Over New AI Data-Scraping Privacy Policy

July 13, 2023
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One week after Google updated its user privacy policy to allow data scraping from millions of users for artificial intelligence (AI) training purposes, the tech giant is now facing a class-action lawsuit. Google, its parent company Alphabet, and Google’s AI subsidiary DeepMind, were accused in a July 11 filing in a federal court in San…

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Congressman Reads History of the Epoch Times on House Floor

July 13, 2023
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Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) spoke on the House floor on Thursday about the origins of The Epoch Times, shedding light on its ongoing mission to provide uncensored information to readers around the world despite facing oppression by the Chinese communist regime. Mr. Norman began his speech by telling the story of John Tang, founder of…

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‘Highest Principles of Journalism’: Congressman Reads History of The Epoch Times on House Floor

July 13, 2023
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Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) spoke on the House floor on Thursday about the origins of The Epoch Times, shedding light on its ongoing mission to provide uncensored information to readers around the world despite facing oppression by the Chinese communist regime. Mr. Norman began his speech by telling the story of John Tang, founder of…

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WeChat Warned It Could Be Banned After Refusing to Appear at Government Inquiry

July 12, 2023
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WeChat is facing a potential ban in Australia after the company refused to appear before a federal government inquiry into foreign interference. The chair of the Select Committee on Foreign Interference through Social Media, Sen. James Paterson, said in a press conference on July 11 that the refusal showed how little regard WeChat and its parent company…

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WeChat Warned It Could Be Banned After Refusing to Appear at Australian Govt Inquiry

July 12, 2023
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WeChat is facing a potential ban in Australia after the company refused to appear before a federal government inquiry into foreign interference. The chair of the Select Committee on Foreign Interference through Social Media, Sen. James Paterson, said at a press conference on July 11 that the refusal showed how little regard WeChat and its parent company…

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More Job Cuts Hit Microsoft Workers After Massive January Layoffs

July 11, 2023
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Microsoft announced a new round of job cuts internally on July 10 after laying off 10,000 employees between January and March. The company confirmed the layoffs to GeekWire, which broke the news first but did not provide any further details. “Organizational and workforce adjustments are a necessary and regular part of managing our business. We…

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[PREMIERING NOW] Stella Morabito: Technocratic Totalitarianism, The Impulse to Conform, and AstroTurf Mobs Versus Organic Protest

July 11, 2023
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“It doesn’t matter what your politics are. People want friends. People want family. They want strong relationships. Nobody wants to be lonely. And that’s why what I call the ‘weaponization of loneliness’ is so effective.” In this episode, I sit down with Stella Morabito, a senior contributor at The Federalist. She’s a former CIA intelligence…

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