The European Union has approved a copyright overhaul that aims to give more protection to artists and news organizations but which critics say will stifle freedom of speech and online creativity and punish smaller web companies.
Internet
Apr 15, 2019
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Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp were temporarily down early Sunday.
Internet
Apr 14, 2019
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US adults appear to be sticking with Facebook, Twitter and other online platforms despite controversies over privacy and misinformation, according to a study released Wednesday by the Pew Research Center.
Internet
Apr 11, 2019
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The crime of human trafficking—defined by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security as modern-day slavery that "involves the use of force, fraud, or coercion to obtain some type of labor or commercial sex act—is notoriously ...
Machine learning & AI
Apr 9, 2019
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Tech giants like Facebook and Google came under increasing pressure in Europe on Monday when countries proposed stricter rules to force them to block extreme material such as terrorist propaganda and child porn.
Internet
Apr 9, 2019
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The rapid evolution of social media platforms has left their uses, and users, in a constant state of transition. In many research fields, analyzing data involving social media can be a daunting task—it is difficult to measure ...
Social Sciences
Apr 8, 2019
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A landmark report produced for the European Commission "Competition policy for the digital era" co-authored by an Imperial academic has been published
Internet
Apr 5, 2019
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Australia's Parliament passed legislation on Thursday that could imprison social media executives if their platforms stream real violence such as the New Zealand mosque shootings.
Internet
Apr 4, 2019
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Australia pledged Saturday to introduce new laws that could see social media executives jailed and tech giants fined billions for failing to remove extremist material from their platforms.
Internet
Mar 30, 2019
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Hollywood's power as a global entertainment machine is far from dead and buried but it has been knocked for a six by the extraordinary rise of social media entertainment over the past 10 years.
Social Sciences
Mar 28, 2019
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