Elon Musk has suggested that all users of social media platform X could be required to pay to use the service in an effort to stop bots on the site. Speaking during a livestreamed conversation on artificial intelligence (AI) with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday, the billionaire said the company is “moving towards […]
TikTok has been fined 345 million euro (£296 million) by Ireland’s data watchdog following an investigation into how the social media platform processed children’s data. The fine was imposed on TikTok Technology Limited (TTL) by the Data Protection Commission (DPC) after the probe into how certain privacy settings and features complied with obligations under the EU’s General […]
The European Union has targeted Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Google parent Alphabet, Facebook owner Meta and TikTok parent ByteDance under new digital rules aimed at reining in the market power of online companies. The six companies were classed as online “gatekeepers” that must face the highest level of scrutiny under the 27-nation bloc’s Digital Markets Act. […]
TikTok has confirmed that its first European data centre in Ireland is now operational and the social media giant has begun to migrate European user data to the site, as part of its ongoing response to data privacy concerns around the app’s links to China. The centre in Dublin is the first of three in […]
Elon Musk has said his social network X, formerly known as Twitter, will give users the ability to make voice and video calls on the platform. Mr Musk, who has a history of making proclamations about coming features and policies that have not always come to fruition, did not say when the features would be […]
Users of the social media platform X will not be able to block people from seeing their posts or commenting on them in future, Elon Musk has said. Mr Musk, owner of the platform which was formerly named Twitter, said users will still be able to block someone from sending them direct messages (DMs). In […]
Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta is keeping its promise to block news content in Canada on its platforms in response to a new law that requires tech giants to pay publishers for linking to or otherwise repurposing their content online. Google’s owner Alphabet has said it plans to do the same, although it does […]
Amazon-owned Twitch has said it is expanding its ban on livestreams of gambling content on the platform. The company said it will now prohibit streams of online casinos Blaze and Gamdom, adding to the four sites it banned last October when its new gambling policy went into effect. Twitch announced the restrictions after controversy broke […]
X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, has threatened to sue a group of independent researchers whose research documented an increase in hate speech on the site since it was purchased last year by Elon Musk. A lawyer representing the social media site wrote to the Centre for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) on […]
TikTok has launched text-only posts as the video platform takes on rival social media giants in the race to innovate. The new format will allow users to create text-based content to share stories, ideas, poems, recipes or other written content, the app said. People can add colours, stickers, hashtags and sounds to their text post, […]
