Twitter’s new picture permission policy was aimed at combating online abuse, but US activists and researchers said Friday

Even the social network admitted the roll out of the rules, which say anyone can ask Twitter to take down images of themselves posted without their consent, was marred by malicious reports and its teams’ own errors. It was just the kind of trouble anti-racism advocates worried was coming after the policy was announced this…

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Instagram’s parent-company Meta is being probed by a consortium of US states

Facebook is battling one of its most serious reputational crises yet after a whistleblower leaked reams of internal documents showing executives knew of their sites’ possibility for damage, prompting a renewed US push for regulation. “Facebook, now Meta, has failed to protect young people on its platforms and instead chose to ignore or, in some…

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