Preliminary findings:

🚫TikTok & Meta failed to grant researchers adequate access to public data.

🚫Meta failed to provide simple ways to notify illegal content and to allow users to challenge moderation decisions.

This is a duty, not a choice.

link.europa.eu/JYQrBX

A new report finds corporations like Kroger and McDonald's are using digital loyalty programs to track your data and potentially charge you more.

It's a tactic known as surveillance pricing.

Former FTC Chair Lina Khan explains. https://youtu.be/-cbtUYshYM8?si=GPRt5_WnLehnjgWR

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Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains. n.pr/3L5exuu

And one more thing: The Washpost editorial fails to mention that Amazon is a ballroom donor.

Guess who founded Amazon? Guess who owns the Washpost?

The Plot to Enslave America

Federal Judges— or staff, but same-same— used "AI" to summarize & draft rulings, issued them w/o checking the work, leading to basic factual errors, & thus undermining the facticity & validity of the rulings entire.

Gee. Who Could Have Foreseen. *stares directly into the camera like in the office*

I know this is obvious. And I know we all know this.
But if the President can raise taxes because an advert annoyed him, without even consulting Congress, then the US constitution is simply not functioning as intended.

WUT?!!

newrepublic.com/article/2005...

All the news that the oligarchs deem fit

The video 🇨🇦

Well, well, well...

The last time the White House was razed was in 1812.
Both times it was commanded by a King with unchecked power of destruction.

📰 @stevenwaldman.bsky.social has taken a look at @localnewsini.bsky.social’s new report on the State of Local News. And he’s deeply worried. www.editorandpublisher.com/stories/were...

Lankford was in the Senate when the Intelligence Committee wrote its giant report concluding that Russiagate was not a hoax, and it's criminal negligence by CNN to let him say this on air with no pushback.

I can answer this one: no, A.I. is already being enshittified

"Catalytic converters that cost $1,200 or $1,500 are about to cost over $2,500 thanks to tariffs."

My @northeasternu.bsky.social colleague @wihbey.bsky.social, author of the new book "Governing Babel," writes for @time.com that we need to find a way to regulate social media while still preserving the First Amendment. time.com/7326940/amer...