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Khushi, Amity Law School INTRODUCTION The rapid digitisation of society has fundamentally altered the relationship between individuals, information, and memory. In the contemporary age of social media, where information is not only created but permanently archived, the law faces an unprecedented challenge: how to reconcile the individual’s right to control personal information with the public’s i…

Platform says it will reward original creators as it penalises ‘aggregators’ for flooding timelines with ‘stolen posts’ Business live – latest updates Elon Musk’s X has reduced payments to users who post clickbait and recycle news stories as it warned account holders against “flooding the timeline” with low-quality content. Nikita Bier, X’s head of product , wrote on the social media platform tha…

Social media giants Meta and YouTube have been found liable by a California jury for negligence that caused harm to a young woman’s mental health. The landmark decision is among the first of many similar cases, and could be the beginning of a trend that may force major changes in how social platforms work. The companies have been ordered to pay $3 million in compensatory damages, which are meant …

Every few years, a social media platform claims to have reinvented social media․ Moltbook is not a small tweak, though․ Where human influencers have been the center, artificial intelligence gets its own moment․ Bots post, answer each other and debate topics. Humans watch the interactions, participate and sometimes build bots. You can think of it… The post What Is Moltbook? Inside the Social Netwo…

People who lose their jobs often post about it before they file paperwork. They vent, ask connections for leads, or just announce they’re unemployed. These posts, scattered across millions of social media users, turn out to predict official unemployment claims up to two weeks before government data arrives. Researchers from New York University, the World Bank, and the University of Oxford built a…

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TikTok has transformed from an entertainment hub to an unexpected contender in the world of search engines. A recent study conducted by Adobe delves into the changing dynamics of consumer behavior. Quick Take: The study reveals TikTok’s newfound significance as a search engine. The app’s journey from a viral video platform to a preferred search… TikTok Takes Center Stage with Its Emergence as a S…

This episode explores Broken Code: Inside Facebook and the Fight to Expose its Harmful Secrets , a new book by Wall Street Journal technology reporter Jeff Horwitz . His relentless coverage of Meta, including first reporting on the documents brought forward by whistleblower Frances Haugen in the fall of 2021, has been pivotal in shedding light on the complex interplay between social media platfor…

Disciplines Communication Technology and New Media | Social Media Publication Date 2022 Document Type Article DOI 10.25778/6tqj-8z41 Abstract With the emergence of new technology, communication is now easier than ever. With popular dating apps such as the infamous social interactive platform, Tinder, forming romantic relationships online now offers individuals a new way to personalize their datin…

DMRC’s Dr Tim Graham has been awarded an ARC Discovery Early Career Research Award for his project Combatting Coordinated Inauthentic Behaviour on Social Media. Project summary: Online disinformation is a global problem that threatens national security and is harmful to society. However, current methods are not suited to detect... The post DMRC’s Dr Tim Graham awarded an ARC DECRA 2022 appeared f…

[This is a joint post with Grant Storey, a Princeton undergraduate who is working with me on a tool to help users understand Facebook’s targeted advertising.] Facebook announced two days ago that it would make its ads indistinguishable from regular posts, and hence impossible to block. But within hours, the developers of Adblock Plus released an […] The post Can Facebook really make ads unblockab…