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Month: January 2025

Internet

French researchers aim to ease X refugees’ path with ‘HelloQuitX’

January 16, 2025 Tech Xplore

French researchers have developed an application to help users migrate their whole online community from Elon Musk’s X to rival social platforms such as Bluesky or Mastodon.This article was originally published on this website.

Internet

Meta’s fact-checking and diversity rollbacks represent ‘dangerous retreat’ from corporate responsibility

January 15, 2025 Tech Xplore

Meta, the corporation that owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has announced that it not only plans to replace its professional fact-checking system with user-contribution, but also cut down on many of its diversity schemes in […]

Internet

US Supreme Court weighs Texas age-check for porn sites

January 15, 2025 Tech Xplore

The US Supreme Court grappled with a challenge on Wednesday to a Texas law requiring pornographic websites to verify visitors’ ages, part of a growing effort to limit access by minors to online sexual content.This […]

Internet

Meta shift from fact-checking to crowdsourcing: Competing approaches in fight against misinformation

January 15, 2025 Tech Xplore

Meta’s decision to change its content moderation policies by replacing centralized fact-checking teams with user-generated community labeling has stirred up a storm of reactions. But taken at face value, the changes raise the question of […]

Internet

A possible TikTok ban is just days away. A list of similar apps available

January 14, 2025 Tech Xplore

With a possible TikTok ban just days away, many U.S. users are looking for alternative social media platforms to help them keep up with pop culture or provide the type of entertaining videos that popularized […]

Internet

How Britain got its first internet connection

January 13, 2025 Tech Xplore

British computer scientist and Internet Hall of Fame inductee Peter Kirstein died in January 2020 at the age of 86, after a nearly 50-year career at UCL. A few years before he died, he was […]

Math

Mathematical technique ‘opens the black box’ of AI decision-making

January 13, 2025 Phys Org

Western researchers have developed a novel technique using math to understand exactly how neural networks make decisions—a widely recognized but poorly understood process in the field of machine learning.This article was originally published on this […]

Internet

Meta abandons racial diversity programs in further right-wing shift

January 11, 2025 Tech Xplore

Social media giant Meta announced Friday it is dismantling its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs across the company, marking another major shift in strategy as it aligns with politically conservative priorities.This article was originally […]

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How Meta’s fact-checking program works

January 10, 2025 Tech Xplore

Internet giant Meta’s fact-checking program aims to counter false information on its social platforms—Facebook, Instagram and Threads—with the help of media organizations, including AFP.This article was originally published on this website.

Internet

Meta policy reversal puts question mark on future of fact-checking

January 10, 2025 Tech Xplore

Media outlets around the world have been left scratching their heads over the future of their fact-checking operations after Meta’s shock announcement that it will halt its US program.This article was originally published on this […]

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