From state capitols to Washington, D.C., lawmakers are scrambling to come up with regulations that can protect kids from the potential harms of social media, since the platforms have been unwilling to adopt reasonable safeguards themselves. In just the last few months, Florida passed a law banning children under age 14 from having a social media account, Iowa legislators backed a bill that would require children younger than 18 to get parental permission to set up and use a social media account,...
B.C. is putting its proposed online harms legislation on hold after reaching an agreement with some of the largest social media platforms to make people safer online.
Former President Trump fired back Wednesday after Jimmy Kimmel ripped him in jokes about his New York hush money criminal trial and his social media company’s plummeting stock. In a morning post on
The accountant hired to audit former President Donald Trump's social media company seemed to have a lot of trouble spelling his name, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.Ben F Borgers, the founder and managing partner of the accounting firm BF Borgers, spelled his name in 14 different ways in regulatory filings, the Financial Times reported, citing data it had reviewed from the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.Some variations, like Ben F Brogers and Ben F orgers, appeared to be...
Trump Media shares have plunged in the two days that Donald Trump has been in a New York court for jury selection in his criminal hush money trial.
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FEATURE (THE CONVERSATION) — The U.S. government moved closer to banning the video social media app TikTok on Apr. 23 after the Senate approved a $95 billion foreign aid bill. The bill includes a provision to force ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns TikTok, to either sell its American holdings to a U.S. company or […]
Roble Belko & Company Inc raised its stake in The Boeing Company (NYSE:BA – Free Report) by 155.3% during the fourth quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The institutional investor owned 822 shares of the aircraft producer’s stock after buying an additional 500 shares during […]
Paris Hilton wowed in head-to-toe pink as she attended the 2024 Variety Entertainment Marketing Summit at The Beverly Hilton hotel in Beverly Hills on Wednesday.
The unique relationship between social media and AI continues to develop in interesting ways, with Reddit’s recent deal with Google allowing their AI to train on its content, and tech companies’ sudden interest in once-popular social media sites like Photobucket. But there is a question looming in the background of these deals: Even if AI companies can train their models on social media, is doing so really such a good idea? AI companies have largely relied on the internet, especially...
Meta’s move into the open social web, also known as the fediverse, is puzzling. Does the Facebook owner see open protocols as the future? Will it embrace the fediverse only to shut it down, shifting people back to its proprietary platforms and decimating startups building in the space? Will it bring its advertising empire to […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Talks on forming a new right-wing coalition government in the Netherlands continue to be dogged by social media posts, particularly by far-right leader Geert Wilders. On Thursday Wilders refused to withdraw a post he had placed about the VVD’s junior immigration minister Eric van der Burg, describing him instead as someone “who has turned the Netherlands into one big refugee centre” and a “scary little man”. Earlier Van der Burg had said during a parliamentary debate that the decision not