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EU demands answers over ‘Instagram pedophile network’

A senior official says he will confront Mark Zuckerberg over reports his platform facilitated child sex abuse. The European Union’s Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton has called on social media giant Meta, the owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, to take “immediate action” against child pornography on its platforms. Breton …

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China deletes 1.4 mln social media posts in crackdown on non-state approved accounts

China’s cyberspace regulator said 1.4 million social media posts have been deleted following a two-month probe into alleged misinformation, illegal profiteering, and impersonation of state officials, among other “pronounced problems.” The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) said in a statement on Friday it had closed 67,000 social media accounts and …

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G7 calls for developing global technical standards for AI

Leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) nations on Saturday called for the development and adoption of technical standards to keep artificial intelligence (AI) “trustworthy”, saying governance of the technology has not kept pace with its growth. While the G7 leaders, meeting in Hiroshima, Japan, recognised that the approaches to …

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Five key takeaways from OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman’s Senate hearing

ChatGPT creator and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman urges lawmakers to regulate artificial intelligence during a hearing. Sam Altman, the chief executive of ChatGPT’s OpenAI, testified before members of a Senate subcommittee on Tuesday about the need to regulate the increasingly powerful artificial intelligence technology being created inside his company and …

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Police across the world take down dark web drug marketplace: Europol

Law enforcement agencies around the world seized an online marketplace and arrested nearly 300 people allegedly involved in buying and selling drugs, European Union law enforcement agency Europol said Tuesday. The worldwide operation targeting the “Monopoly Market,” coordinated by Europol, is the latest major takedown of sales platforms for drugs …

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Brazil unblocks Telegram

The messaging app will still be fined $200,000 for each day it fails to provide authorities with data on alleged neo-Nazis. A Brazilian judge on Saturday suspended an injunction that saw the Telegram messaging app blocked across the entire country. The service was blocked after the Brazilian authorities requested user …

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Big Tech crackdown looms as EU, UK ready new rules

TikTok, Twitter, Facebook, Google, and Amazon are facing rising pressure from European authorities as London and Brussels advanced new rules Tuesday to curb the power of digital companies. They’re among those on a list of the 19 biggest online platforms and search engines that the European Union’s executive arm said …

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