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LinkedIn’s new anti-slop button is coming to every platform (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-05 | tags: linkedin, ai content, anti-slop button

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Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: shieldstral, multimodal safety, nvidia gpu

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Telegram CEO says an extortionist planted CSAM in a chat to get it pulled from the App Store (theverge.com)

2026-08-04 | by Emma Roth | tags: telegram, app store, csam

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AI Images Are Everywhere. Here’s What They Do to Our Brains, and What We Can Do. (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-02 | tags: machine learning, neural networks, feed algorithms

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A Week in Matrix (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-01 | tags: matrix, element web, draupnir

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Full school day cellphone bans are more popular than ever (theverge.com)

2026-07-29 | by Lauren Feiner | tags: pew research center, silicon valley, the verge

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Meta won’t have to face the next planned social media addiction trial (theverge.com)

2026-07-22 | by Lauren Feiner | tags: meta, facebook, social media

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YouTube Cracks Down on ‘Off-Putting Content’ and AI Slop (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-20 | tags: youtube, content moderation, google

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TikTok is testing an AI likeness detection tool (theverge.com)

2026-07-17 | by Jay Peters | tags: tiktok, ai likeness detection, jumio

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Judge: Trump can’t deport researchers just for working in content moderation (arstechnica.com)

2026-07-15 | tags: boasberg, content moderation, department

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Discord admits AI moderation bug wrongfully banned users over harmless images (techcrunch.com)

2026-07-07 | by Lauren Forristal | tags: account, automated, discord

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Meta has been secretly relying on Google's AI for customer service, ad tools, and content moderation – then got cut off (techspot.com)

2026-06-29 | get Google AI Customer Service Tool → | tags: meta, google, financial times

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Substack’s new ‘Reply Rules’ feature lets creators control how people respond (techcrunch.com)

2026-06-03 | by Lauren Forristal | get Substack Reply Rules Guide → | tags: substack, reply rules, ai filtering

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Plex adds new social features ahead of a major price hike for its lifetime pass (techcrunch.com)

2026-06-03 | by Lauren Forristal | get Plex Media Server → | tags: plex, letterboxd, reddit

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‘We’re Just Getting the Crumbs Here’: Contractors Protest Layoffs at Meta’s European Headquarters (wired.com)

2026-05-29 | by Joel Khalili | get Meta Contractors Protest Hoodie → | tags: meta, covalen, ireland

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'We’re Just Getting the Crumbs Here': Striking Contractors Protest Layoffs at Meta’s European Headquarters (wired.com)

2026-05-29 | by Joel Khalili | get Meta Protest T-Shirt → | tags: meta, covalen, content moderation

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LinkedIn Is Fighting Back Against AI Slop — and AI Comments (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-05-19 | by Jason Feifer | get LinkedIn AI Comment Filter → | tags: linkedin, ai detection, content moderation

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Trump administration defends right to ban content moderation experts from US (theverge.com)

2026-05-13 | by Lauren Feiner | get Content Moderation Expert Guide → | tags: content moderation, silicon valley, citr

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Why preprint servers are increasing moderation — and what that means for researchers (feeds.nature.com)

2026-04-30 | by Ryan | get Preprint Server Moderation Guide → | tags: preprint servers, peer review, scholarly communication

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Trump Admin Closes Investigation Into Alleged Backdoor for WhatsApp: Report (gizmodo.com)

2026-04-28 | get WhatsApp Privacy Shield → | tags: trump administration, whatsapp, meta

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‘It’s Undignified’: Hundreds of Workers Training Meta’s AI Could Be Laid Off (wired.com)

2026-04-28 | by Joel Khalili | get AI Training Data Collection Kit → | tags: meta, ai models, covalen

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AI failure could trigger the next financial crisis, warns Elizabeth Warren (theverge.com)

2026-04-22 | by Lauren Feiner | get AI Safety and Monitoring Kit → | tags: ai industry, elizabeth warren, private credit funds

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Meta isn't setting its Oversight Board free just yet (engadget.com)

2026-04-16 | get Meta Oversight Board Mug → | tags: meta, oversight board, mark zuckerberg

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Google Play Store abruptly delists popular horror game that’s been up for months (androidauthority.com)

2026-04-10 | get Horror Game Controller → | tags: google play store, doki doki literature club, serenity forge

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Nvidia's own DLSS 5 announcement video gets taken down by YouTube in Italy due to a copyright strike — local TV channel sent a copyright strike to every YouTube video for using the trailer it used for its own broadcast (tomshardware.com)

2026-04-06 | by Jowi Morales | get DLSS 5 Gaming Monitor → | tags: nvidia, dlss 5, youtube

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The Facebook insider building content moderation for the AI era (techcrunch.com)

2026-04-03 | by Rebecca Bellan | get AI Content Moderation Tool → | tags: facebook, content moderation, ai chatbots

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The former Facebook insider building content moderation for the AI era (techcrunch.com)

2026-04-03 | by Rebecca Bellan | get AI Content Moderation Tool → | tags: facebook, content moderation, ai chatbots

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Meta agrees to ‘reduce’ Instagram’s PG-13 rating references (theverge.com)

2026-03-31 | by Emma Roth | get Instagram Safety Parental Control → | tags: meta, instagram, mpa

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Meta misled users about its products’ safety, jury decides (theverge.com)

2026-03-24 | by Lauren Feiner | get Meta Safety Awareness Kit → | tags: meta, facebook, privacy

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Meta will move away from human content moderators in favor of more AI (engadget.com)

2026-03-19 | get AI Content Moderation Tool → | tags: meta, content moderation, llm