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Content moderation issues are taking center stage in the presidential election campaign

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How much of the low turnout should be attributed to the teens, and how much should be attributed to other factors — like that pandemic, for example? In the moment, Trump versus the TikTok teens offered a canvas that anyone could project their hopes and LOLs onto. Or was it something else? Sarah Holder / Bloomberg).

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TikTok is having a monster 2020

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Here are Katie Roof and Zheping Huang in Bloomberg : The company owes much of its success to TikTok , now the online repository of choice for lip-synching and dance videos by American teens. The ambitious company is also pushing aggressively into a plethora of new arenas from gaming and search to music. Two, TikTok keeps finding new users.

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Mark Zuckerberg on why he doesn’t want to “put an Apple Watch on your face”

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Now, a deal with TikTok could mean it needs the law, too. Teen girls are dominating TikTok , going from zero followers to hundreds of thousands in a matter of days. Facebook published its “responsible innovation principles” on Wednesday — they’re meant to address the many concerns related to the development of AR glasses.

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The massive Twitter hack could be a global security crisis

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The suit alleges that Google violated wiretapping and privacy laws. Trending down : Hong Kong activists worry Apple may be censoring the voting platform PopVote, which was developed for the opposition’s primaries — an unofficial election that also served as a protest against the city’s national security law imposed last month by Beijing.

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TikTok’s biggest problem is outside its control

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Law enforcement authorities are using a company called Dataminr to help monitor social media related to protests. Stylistically, they’re laws. Rascally TikTok teens are trying to pull one over on the president again. Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms. ?? The Hill ). That is not a typo.

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How tech companies are fighting antitrust efforts with front groups

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According to Romm, American Edge is set up to ”navigate a thicket of tax laws in such a way that it can raise money, and blitz the airwaves with ads, without the obligation of disclosing all of its donors.”. Might that mislead people about the identity, purpose, or origin of the entity that American Edge represents?

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Trump’s latest attack on Section 230 is really about censoring speech

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One is that there are genuine, good-faith reasons to call for Section 230 reform, even though they’re often drowned out by bad tweets that misunderstand the law. Goodman, a law professor at Rutgers University specializing in information policy, approaches the problem from another angle. Barrett writes (PDF): Ellen P.