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A Tiktoker brings the latest news.
Young people on TikTok learn about what's happening from a hodgepodge of alternative sources, from news commentary influencers to purportedly on-the-ground "citizen journalists."
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Bill Gates, Founder of Breakthrough Energy and Co-Chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, speaks onstage at The New York Times Climate Forward Summit 2023 at The Times Center on September 21, 2023 in New York City.
Bill Gates speaks onstage at The New York Times Climate Forward Summit 2023 at The Times Center on September 21, 2023 in New York City.
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New court documents argue that Meta misled the public and its users about the amount of harmful content on its platforms.
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A shadowed hand holds a phone on which the TikTok musical-note logo is displayed, in front of the United States flag.
TikTok and the US flag.
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Meta made a quiet policy update last year allowing advertisers on Facebook and Instagram to say the 2020 election was rigged. The company has made one thing clear: you can’t use their ad systems to question the legitimacy of the American election system — unless you have a credit card, in which case they’re happy to…

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AI-generated images of Israel-Hamas conflict
Adobe Stock is selling user-uploaded AI-generated images of the Israel-Hamas conflict.
Gizmodo : Politics

Republican lawmakers pounding the well-worn TikTok ban drum are using flaming hot tensions over the conflict in Israel to try, once again, to knock the app offline. The new line of attacks, based on shoddy data analyses, claims TikTok is boosting anti-Israel content in order to brainwash a generation of gullible…

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X creators whose posts were amended or corrected in Community Notes are no longer eligible to receive ad revenue share, owner Elon Musk said on Sunday.

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Experts say there has been an unprecedented number of fake claims about the Israel-Hamas war circulating online. Bellingcat's open-source investigators showed us how they find out the truth.

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An unorthodox group of 7 users is now the most dominant news source for information about the Israel-Hamas war on X (formerly Twitter), according to a new report from the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public. Dubbed the “New Elites” of X, the report found these users racked up 1.6 billion views on…