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IA in the News: Tech CEOs defend themselves in front of US authorities

The CEOs of tech giants Facebook, Twitter and Google faced a grilling from US politicians yesterday. Lawmakers tried to make them acknowledge their companies’ roles in fuelling deadly violence at the ...

IA in the News: Facebook, Google and Twitter CEO’s grilled by US Congress over spread of disinformation

The CEOs of tech giants Facebook, Google and Twitter faced some tough questions in the US Congress on Thursday as they appeared in a virtual hearing held by the Energy and Commerce Committee and two ...

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg suggests small Section 230 law reform

Mark Zuckerberg says a key internet law should be reformed to force big tech companies to identify and remove unlawful content – but insists Facebook still shouldn’t be held liable if posts ...

IA in the News: AWS urges US court to throw out Parler breach of contract lawsuit

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has urged the United States District Court to dismiss Parler’s application to have its service reinstated on its public cloud platform.

IA in the News: LEGO and Legislation

LEGO plans to increase its UK and Danish workforce to support the expansion of digital services. In an interview with the BBC, CEO, Niels Christansen, said that users upload one of their LEGO ...

Black and LGBT Edinburgh University students attacked in Zoom meeting

The University of Edinburgh student union event on Sunday was interrupted by racist slurs, the chanting of homophobic slogans, and pornography.

Zara McDermott says she contemplated suicide aged 14 during revenge porn ordeal

Zara McDermott has told how revenge porn made her consider suicide after a boy shared naked pictures of her around their school when she was just 14.

US Section 230: New report calls conservative claims of social media censorship ‘a form of disinformation’

An article in the Washington Post, by Cat Zakrzewski, reports that New York university researchers have found no evidence that technology firms are biased against content posted online by ...

UK Government’s Response to Online Harms Whitepaper

The Government’s final response to the consultation of the Online Harms White Paper was published last month, outlining in further detail how the new regulatory framework will tackle illegal and ...

Tory MP calls for ‘cyber-flashing’ to be made a criminal offence

A Conservative MP has called for ‘cyber-flashing’ to be made a criminal offence to stop Britons sending X-rated snaps to strangers using the AirDrop function on their iPhones.