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From Prof. Michael McConnell: Meta Oversight Board Steps Up To Protect Conservative Political Speech

I'm delighted to pass along this item from my Hoover Institution colleague Michael McConnell, who is also a professor at… The post From Prof. Michael McConnell: Meta Oversight Board Steps Up To Protect Conservative Political Speech appeared first on Reason.com.

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Meta bans accounts tracking jets of Musk, Trump and Zuckerberg

Elon Musk and Taylor Swift have both threatened to sue the college student behind the jet tracker project

The Independent UK

Meta Revives Controversial Facial Recognition Program In Effort To Combat Celebrity Scam Ads

Meta already uses an AI-driven ad review system, but the rise of more sophisticated deepfake technology has made scams harder to detect.

International Business Times

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'Hide and Seek with a Cop' Halloween Event Triggers Hundreds of Internet Jokes: 'Can Criminals Play?'

An Oregon police department's Facebook invitation to play hide-and-seek with uniformed and armed cops drew both criticism and praise from social media users.

Latin Times

Is Meta Stock A Buy? Facebook Parent Reports Q3 Results Wednesday

Meta stock is surging to another strong year but faces a test when it reports third quarter results Wednesday.

Investors Business Daily

One simple prompt can make AI images come alive in Facebook Messenger and Instagram

Using Messenger you can now create images and animate them with ease!

TechRadar

Republican Mark Robinson suggested ‘deadbeat’ parents should be sterilized in racist social media posts

Candidate for governor of North Carolina is also taking heat after a CNN report unearthed a ‘Black Nazi’ porn profile

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Thai island for sale at B1.8bn

Posts on Facebook made headlines on Wednesday as they advertised part of Koh Kham island in the eastern province of Trat for sale at 1.8 billion baht.

Bangkok Post

I fell for a Coldplay concert ticket scam on Facebook – here’s how to avoid my mistake

IN FOCUS: Someone on your social media has tickets to a massive gig but they can’t make it any more – seems legit. Except, in Kate Solomon’s case it wasn’t, and revealed a new frontier of scamming that social media platforms are struggling to get a grip on

The Independent UK

Potential tech giant tax welcomed by news outlets, despite lingering questions

A joint select committee has called for the creation of a new ‘Digital Affairs Ministry’ and suggested a big tech tax. Crikey asked media industry figures how they felt about the proposal.

Crikey

Should a big tech tax fund news? A new report reopens debate on platforms and media

Meta’s announcement nearly eight months ago that it would no longer do commercial deals under the News Media Bargaining Code has led to much speculation as to how the government would respond.

The Conversation

Analyst revises Meta stock price target ahead of earnings

This is what could happen next to Meta Platform shares.

The Street

Elon Musk’s pro-Trump Pac pouring millions into Facebook ads instead of X

America Pac is targeting users interested in the Boy Scouts of America, Kelsey Grammer, Kid Rock and Joe Rogan

The Guardian - US

Meta is reviving facial recognition for Facebook and Instagram three years after it shut down the tool—this time, to fight back against scammers

Meta says early testing has been promising.

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Labor concerned Meta may ‘sidestep obligations to pay for news’ as media bargaining code fight reignites

Social media company tells parliamentary committee Facebook and Instagram bring value to news outlets

The Independent UK

Genocide row MSP will not contest SNP expulsion

John Mason was expelled from the party following his comments he made about the conflict in Gaza.

International Business Times

Meta Resumes Facial Recognition Tech To Combat Celeb-bait Scams

The company will enroll around 50,000 public figures to launch a global trial in December, excluding major jurisdictions where it lacks regulatory clearance, such as Britain, European Union, South Korea, and Texas and Illinois in the United States.

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The Cockatoo Who Lived In A Sydney Coles For 4 Weeks Feasting On Brioche & Is Finally Free

Mickey the Cockatoo is Sydney's newest celebrity. He's been trapped in a Coles for 4 weeks, and needs to be freed. He loves eating brioche.

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The Independent UK

Meta to scan people’s faces to check whether they are AI

The tech giant said it would use the technology as a new way of identifying fake celebrity endorsement adverts on its platforms.

The Guardian - AU

Meta to use facial recognition technology in fight against celebrity investment scam ads

Social media company says it has seen ‘promising results’ in detecting the scam ads, which have included deepfake images of Gina Rinehart and Guy Sebastian

PC Gamer

Twitch silently stopped sign ups from both Israel and Palestine for over a year, gets caught out, says it was all 'to prevent uploads of graphic material'

"We deeply regret this unacceptable miss, and the confusion it has caused."

International Business Times

Police In Mozambique Disperse Vote Protest

Riot police in the Mozambican capital Maputo fired tear gas Monday to disperse a crowd protesting against alleged electoral fraud, days after two opposition allies were shot dead.

Latin Times

Beware: US Election Disinformation Masked As 'Breaking News

The misuse of the term, typically deployed by media outlets to relay major news developments, is part of a persistent assault on reality across tech platforms that researchers say have relaxed their guardrails against false information in a crucial election year.

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Watch My Chemical Romance play The Black Parade album in full at When We Were Young festival

Emo kings My Chemical Romance performed their iconic Black Parade album in full for the first time since 2007 at this weekend's When We Were Young festival

LiveScience

'I'd never seen such an audacious attack on anonymity before': Clearview AI and the creepy tech that can identify you with a single picture

"Concerns about facial recognition had been building for decades. And now the nebulous bogeyman had finally found its form: a small company with mysterious founders and an unfathomably large database."

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