ICE wants to build a 24/7 social media surveillance team

ICE’s main investigative database, built by Palantir Technologies, already uses algorithmic analysis to filter huge ...

Suspected Chinese government operatives used ChatGPT to shape mass surveillance proposals, OpenAI says

Suspected Chinese government operatives asked ChatGPT to help write proposal for a tool to conduct large-scale surveillance ...

OpenAI bans suspected China-linked accounts for seeking surveillance proposals

OpenAI said on Tuesday it has banned several ChatGPT accounts with suspected links to the Chinese government entities after the users asked for proposals to monitor social media conversations. In its ...
The Conversation

Australia’s government says social media age checks ‘can be done’, despite errors and privacy risks

Lisa M. Given receives funding from the Australian Research Council. She is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and the Association for Information Science and Technology. The ...
TechCrunch

Jack Dorsey pumps $10M into a nonprofit focused on open source social media

Twitter co-founder and Block CEO Jack Dorsey isn’t just vibe coding new social apps, like Bitchat and Sun Day; he has also invested $10 million in an effort to fund experimental open source projects ...