Twitter isn’t interested in how the “synthetic or manipulated” media is created, but if it has the potential to cause harm it’ll be removed.
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Twitter admits to raid on users’ phone numbers
It relates to Twitter’s contact upload feature, which allows users to find others via contact info such as email or phone number.
Twitter gave access to student’s account to his college
Twitter admitted it broke the rules when it handed over control of the student’s account to college administrators.
15 NFL teams’ Twitter hijacked in lead-up to the Super Bowl
“We are here to show people that everything is hackable,” says hacking group OurMine, back to spread its unwelcome spiel on hacked accounts.
Facial recognition firm sued for scraping 3 billion faceprints
A potential class action says Clearview AI is breaking biometrics privacy law by ransacking social media so police can match photos with IDs.
Teen entered ‘dark rabbit hole of suicidal content’ online
Molly Russell’s grieving father has backed a psychiatrists’ report, saying that tech companies must be forced to hand over anonymized data.
Apps are sharing more of your data with ad industry than you may think
Apps like Grindr, Tinder and Happn are (over-)sharing data about sexuality, religion, and location with a shadowy network of data brokers. And it’s not just dating apps that are doing it…
Twitter trolls attack epileptics with seizure-inducing images
They hijacked the Epilepsy Foundation’s hashtags and name during national epilepsy awareness month, when the most people follow the feed.
Jack Dorsey wants a decentralised Twitter
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has announced a research effort to explore a decentralised version of the microblogging platform.
Twitter says it won’t delete tweets from those who have died
It “was a miss on our part”, Twitter said.