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Tech giants must obey UK’s online safety laws, says minister
Peter Kyle said the UK needed to legislate more frequently to deal with developments in the technology.
UK will not pit AI safety against investment in bid for growth, says minister
Peter Kyle is set to unveil the Government’s AI action plan on Monday.
UK going ‘backwards’ on online safety, Molly Russell’s father tells Starmer
Ian Russell called on Sir Keir Starmer to act urgently in order to protect young people online.
Swinney voices concern at Meta changes and will ‘keep considering’ use of X
Facebook and Instagram will move away from using third-party fact checkers to flag misleading content.
X boss Linda Yaccarino praises Meta’s decision to scrap fact checkers
The social media executive said it was ‘validating’ to see Mark Zuckerberg and Meta follow X in introducing user-based checks on content.
Meta criticised over ‘chilling’ content moderation changes
The social media giant has announced it is ending third-party fact-checking and loosening its content moderation systems.
Meta ends fact-checking on Facebook and Instagram in favour of community notes
Mark Zuckerberg admitted the move will mean more ‘bad stuff’ on his social media platforms, which are used by billions of people.
Clegg leaves Meta role as Republican promoted ahead of Trump presidency
Former deputy prime minister Sir Nick Clegg said his time with Facebook’s parent company had been the ‘adventure of a lifetime’.
Australia plans to tax digital platforms that do not pay for news
They include Meta, Google-owner Alphabet and ByteDance, the Chinese owner of TikTok.
OpenAI hit by outage after ‘technical issue’ impacts Meta social media apps
OpenAI said it is working to fix the issue.