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Senate Intelligence Committee Calls On FTC To Investigate TikTok For ‘Deception’

Forbes Social Media

The committee cited BuzzFeed News reporting that China-based employees at TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, had repeatedly accessed sensitive US user data.

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Senate Subpoenas X, Snap, Discord CEOs To Testify On Child Safety

Forbes Social Media

The Senate Judiciary Committee subpoenaed the CEOs of Snap, X and Discord to testify about child exploitation online, the committee said Monday, accusing the social media companies of repeatedly refusing to voluntarily agree to let the CEOs appear.

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U.S. Senator Mark Warner Urges Tech Companies To Fight Russian Propaganda In Ukraine—Russian Officials Punish Those That Do

Forbes Social Media

Senate Intelligence Committee sent letters to Alphabet, Meta, Reddit, Telegram, TikTok and Twitter as Russian officials limit access to Facebook. The chairman of the U.S.

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Social Media Liability Bill Passed California State Committee - Are Teens Actually ‘Addicted’ To Social Media?

Forbes Social Media

If passed into law, AB 2408 would allow parents and the state Attorney General to sue social media companies on behalf of children who are harmed as a result of a social media addiction.

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How Twitter & Facebook are making social media ads more transparent

Sherrilynne Starkie

And so are the possible ramifications for the global technology companies whose products and platforms are being used to spread fake news – loss of trust among users, reputational damage, increased regulation, reduced access to markets, and more. Facebook announced it’s testing new ‘Trust Indicators’.

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Dems Call Senate Committee Hearing On Section 230 A Partisan Sham

Forbes Social Media

“What we’re seeing is an attempt to bully the CEOs of private companies into carrying out a hit job on a presidential candidate by making sure they push out foreign and domestic misinformation meant to influence the election.”.

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Core Values Are Stupid Until They’re Not

Ignite Social Media

Have you been in those groupthink exercises where a well-intentioned committee of some sort throws out grand words and tries to massage them into sentences that include each person’s most important adjectives? When core values become core, however, is when the company repeatedly takes actions based on them. Can you relate?

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