Sunday, October 30, 2022

Twitter's head of safety and integrity says it has not changed content policies but had been subject to "an organized effort to make people think we have" (Dan Milmo/The Guardian)

Dan Milmo / The Guardian:
Twitter's head of safety and integrity says it has not changed content policies but had been subject to “an organized effort to make people think we have”  —  Platform says 300 accounts carried out 50,000-plus tweets in ‘organised effort to make users think firm has changed content policy’



Some teens are using TikTok to self-diagnose mental illnesses, as health providers worry about inaccurate information and accounts encouraging harmful behavior (Christina Caron/New York Times)

Christina Caron / New York Times:
Some teens are using TikTok to self-diagnose mental illnesses, as health providers worry about inaccurate information and accounts encouraging harmful behavior  —  While social media can help people feel less alone, using it to evaluate symptoms has several downsides.



Elon Musk shared a lurid, baseless conspiracy theory on Twitter about the attack on Nancy Pelosi's husband Paul Pelosi, in response to a Hillary Clinton tweet (Rachel Sharp/The Independent)

Rachel Sharp / The Independent:
Elon Musk shared a lurid, baseless conspiracy theory on Twitter about the attack on Nancy Pelosi's husband Paul Pelosi, in response to a Hillary Clinton tweet  —  Billionaire peddled the conspiracy theory on Twitter just days after he completed his takeover of the social media platform



Sources: Apple plans to launch M2-based versions of the 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros in early March 2023; M2 Max will have 12 CPU cores and 38 GPU cores (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple plans to launch M2-based versions of the 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros in early March 2023; M2 Max will have 12 CPU cores and 38 GPU cores  —  Apple's next group of Macs probably won't launch until early next year, which means it will have fewer new devices to sell in the holiday quarter.



Inside the US National Cyber Mission Force, which has been deployed to 20 countries since 2018 to battle state-backed Russian, Chinese, and North Korean hackers (Gordon Corera/BBC)

Gordon Corera / BBC:
Inside the US National Cyber Mission Force, which has been deployed to 20 countries since 2018 to battle state-backed Russian, Chinese, and North Korean hackers  —  Russia failed to take down Ukrainian computer systems with a massive cyber-attack when it invaded this year, despite many analysts' predictions.



Analysis reveals how Google's ad business funnels revenue to prolific purveyors of health, election, and climate disinfo in Europe, Latin America, and Africa (ProPublica)

ProPublica:
Analysis reveals how Google's ad business funnels revenue to prolific purveyors of health, election, and climate disinfo in Europe, Latin America, and Africa  —  Google is funneling revenue to some of the web's most prolific purveyors of false information in Europe, Latin America and Africa, a ProPublica investigation has found.



Docs: Israeli AI chip startup Hailo is pursuing an urgent IPO via a SPAC merger at a valuation of less than $500M; it was last valued at $1.2B in 2024 (Meir Orbach/CTech)

Meir Orbach / CTech : Docs: Israeli AI chip startup Hailo is pursuing an urgent IPO via a SPAC merger at a valuation of less than $500M; ...