New tools from Meta aim to combat 'sextortion'

@Instagram is aiming to make it harder for potential scammers and criminals to coerce teens into sending nude photos and extort them for money.
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New:
* Nudity protection feature in Instagram DMs
* Signals to detect potential sextorters & prevent teen account interaction
* Pop-up warnings for people engaging with suspected sextorters
* More industry signal sharing about sextortion via Lantern
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Odd that the Reuters Institute is promoting this The Australian piece given there is not a lick of evidence in the underlying story to back up the claim.

Shockingly untrue. Meta didn’t share people’s private messages with Netflix. The agreement allowed people to message their friends on Facebook about what they were watching on Netflix, directly from the Netflix app. Such agreements are commonplace in the industry.

Earlier today, a technical issue caused people to have difficulty accessing some of our services. We resolved the issue as quickly as possible for everyone who was impacted, and we apologize for any inconvenience.

We're aware people are having trouble accessing our services. We are working on this now.

So what you're saying is the 𝒏𝒆𝒘𝒔 𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒖𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒚 is opposed to the age appropriate design code in California?

POLITICO on a federal legislative approach to AI and elections: 'Congress continues to dither'

We’re making even more data from our platforms available to academic researchers in a way that respects people’s privacy

Hearing a chirping noise while scrolling through your Facebook Feed on your iPhone? It’s not you, it’s us! And it’s an unfortunate technical error that we're in the process of fixing.

'When Super Bowl teams are invited to the White House, do they typically have a plus one?'

But as University of California, Irvine, psychologist Candice Odgers once put it, 'You can hate social media, but it is not the case that it is driving teen suicide, depression, and anxiety.'

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As Nick Clegg told Good Morning America's George Stephanopoulos, in this year of elections globally, Meta is taking steps to label more AI-generated imagery.
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Since its launch, we’ve labeled photorealistic images created using Meta AI so people know what they're looking at.
In the coming months, we'll also label images created elsewhere when we can detect industry standard indicators that they're AI-generated.
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Meta and @MissingKids are expanding Take It Down, a service Meta helped found that empowers young people to stop the online spread of their nude images and videos, to dozens more languages and countries around the world.
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