platforms
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TikTok Removes Videos From Conservatives Containing False Voter-Fraud Allegations
Unlike other corners of the internet, TikTok is at its most elegant when its users lean into their most smooth-brained impulses. An infinite scroll of skateboarding parakeets, cottagecore witches hexing the moon and fun breakfast hacks is a balm to the soul in these fraught political times, and the mindlessness of the content is almost…
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Biden To Zuckerberg: You Wanna Go? Let’s Go You Cow-Handed Fussbudget!
U.S. Democratic presidential contender and former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden called the Silicon Valley set “creeps,” said that Facebook and “other platforms” should lose their Section 230 protections under the Communications Decency Act, and argued that Mark Zuckerberg should face lawsuits and possibly criminal charges over political ads smearing him in an interview with…
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Microsoft’s Brad Smith Calls For ‘Industrywide’ Plan To Fight Extremist Content After Christchurch
Microsoft has called for the tech industry to set a uniform approach to violent, extremist content following the sickening massacre of Muslims attending mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand by a white supremacist earlier this month. At least 50 people were brutally murdered, scores of others were injured, and footage live-streamed on Facebook by the shooter…