As we work through those numbers on SNAP and talk about social media, some of those social media companies need to prepare themselves. Thousands of plaintiffs complaints out there, millions of pages of internal documentation and transcripts of countless hours of deposition set to land in U.S. courtrooms that could threaten the future of the business model for some of those social media companies. That is the focus of a new documentary released on October 30th called Can't Look Away The Case Against Social M ...

(Bloomberg) -- The US Supreme Court declined a chance to open social media companies to lawsuits over content recommended by their algorithms, turning away an appeal that accused Meta Platforms Inc.’s Facebook of radicalizing a man who killed nine South Carolina churchgoers. The rebuff ends a lawsuit filed by the daughter of Reverend Clementa Pinckney, one of the nine people murdered by white supremacist Dylann Roof in 2015 at a historically Black church in Charleston, South Carolina. Two lower courts had ...

Algorithms must be disclosed and you must have the option given to you upfront to switch your algorithm. There should be a B ya, bring your own algorithm. There should be an algorithm store.If you could say, I want one that just gives me a chronological feat. I want one that is from the highest quality sources. And then you should be required to show what the default algorithm is doing.And if you don't do that, I think you should lose your section 230 because an algorithm is more powerful than an editor at ...

Free speech doesn't allow you to go online and broom a child for sexual >> No, it does not. >> Okay. Free speech doesn't allow you to go on the internet and basically incite somebody to kill another person, right.>> Absolutely not. >> So, if it's illegal offline, it should be illegal online. Agreed.Whatever the law is. >> Yes, sir. >> Just because you're online doesn't give you a get out of jail free card.>> No, sir. So if a parent is worried about a child being bullied on a website, what rights do they hav ...