The problem of piracy has increased rapidly in the last few years. Piracy of movies has a big share in this. This is a big concern for the entertainment and media industry. This industry is facing huge loss of business due to piracy. The measures taken to deal with this problem seem to have failed….
Hundreds of workers are being laid off at ByteDance, which runs the social media platform TikTok. This includes a large number of workers of this firm in Malaysia. It has increased the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in content moderation and hence has taken this step. Two sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters…
Elon Musk, owner of microblogging site Twitter, has accused Apple of threatening to block Twitter from the App Store. Musk said that Apple has stopped advertising on Twitter and that pressure is being put on content moderation. Apple has not confirmed this. However, it is normal for the company to do so as it enforces…
Yoel Roth, former security head of microblogging site Twitter, believes that Twitter is not safe under the leadership of new owner Elon Musk. He said that the company does not have enough staff to ensure safety. Roth resigned earlier this month. However, after Musk took over Twitter, Roth tweeted that the safety of the platform…
Billionaire Elon Musk is facing difficulties after taking over the microblogging site Twitter. The European Union (EU) has warned Musk of banning Twitter if it does not follow strict rules on content moderation. This is indicating increasing strictness of regulators on Twitter. EU Industry Chief Thierry Breton said this during a video call meeting with…
American company Apple, which makes the worldwide popular iPhone, plans to restore its advertisements on microblogging site Twitter. Advertisements of e-commerce company Amazon may also appear again on Twitter. Twitter told advertising agencies last week that it would give incentives to companies that advertise more on its platform. Twitter has described this offer as the…
iPhone maker Apple and Alphabet, which runs Internet search engine Google, have warned Amazon over the availability of obscene photographs accessible to children on the popular Kindle app for book reading. These companies have asked Amazon to strengthen its content moderation. Reuters sent questions to spokespersons for these three companies regarding users’ ability to access…
American devices and technology company Apple has increased efforts to prevent fraudulent transactions through its App Store. The company said that due to the increase in digital threats, it has taken measures to protect users from scams and phishing attacks. Apple has prevented fraudulent transactions worth about seven billion dollars on the App Store between…
Social media app Koo is being shut down. This Indian startup was started about four years ago to compete with micro blogging platform Twitter (now called X). It will be shut down after acquisition talks with big internet and media companies failed. Koo was started by Aprameya Radhakrishna and Mayank Bidawatka. It provided services to…
