Despite year-old promises to fix its “Up Next” content recommendation system, YouTube is still suggesting conspiracy videos, hyperpartisan and misogynist videos, pirated videos, and content from hate groups following common news-related searches.
We know our data has been left vulnerable, or sold, or misused. But do we really understand what that means for our safety and security online — and when it actually matters?
How is it that moderators tasked with parsing abusive behavior miss a poorly photoshopped image of an infant with a bright red swastika on their forehead?
Both use the same online playbook — to starkly different ends.
Facebook provided developers with tools to build Facebook-compatible apps like Tinder, Grindr, and Pregnancy+. Those apps have been quietly sending sensitive user data to Facebook.
Some of these things may change your life.
The digital protest follows recent reports noting foreign misinformation campaigns were disproportionately directed at black users.
A seemingly endless parade of privacy scandals has dredged up an existential question for the company.
Estes gráficos confidenciais revelam por que o Facebook comprou o WhatsApp.
It’s hard to imagine how these hearings will result in anything more substantial than a few less-than-viral soundbites.
Welcome to the shameful, twisted beating heart of the internet. Terms are NSFW, obviously.
"You could grab a bottle for around $10 and skip the 2X+ price markup from Infowars," one lab review reads.
Video thumbnails of women engaging in sexual acts with dogs and horses were easily searchable on YouTube as of Monday morning. Some racked up millions of views.
From two llamas escaping an Arizona retirement community to fashion's most notorious optical illusion, February 26, 2015, was the day that everyone — everyone — came together online to cheer, then argue. One year later, the people who accidentally created a phenomenon remember the internet's perfect storm and what it wrought.
The company was obsessively tracking WhatsApp and saw not just a rising competitor but a potential Facebook killer.
After BuzzFeed News provided YouTube with dozens of examples of videos — with millions of views — that depict children in disturbing and abusive situations, the company is cracking down.
"What happens when anyone can make it appear as if anything has happened, regardless of whether or not it did?"
More than 70 deepfake videos — depicting graphic fake sex scenes with Emma Watson, Scarlett Johansson, and other celebrities — were easily searchable from the site's homepage using the search term "deepfake."
According to Twitter’s rules, “you may not promote violence against or directly attack or threaten other people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, or disease.”
Silicon Valley has sold us on a cashless, cardless, walletless, supposedly frictionless future — but as I learned living in it for a month, we're not quite there yet.
