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New Facebook, Instagram claims fuel child safety push |
A former Meta staffer alleged the company's top executives dismissed warnings about teens on Instagram facing sexual advances and bullying. | The allegations from Arturo Béjar, a former Facebook engineer who later returned to the company as a consultant, came before a Senate subcommittee Tuesday. Senators on both sides of the aisle doubled down on the need for Congress to take urgent action, specifically rallying around the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA). "No parent or child can trust Facebook, or Meta, after this whistleblower's powerful account, laying bare their denial and deception," said Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), chair of the subcommittee and a lead sponsor of KOSA. "Congress must act. It must pass the Kids Online Safety Act," Blumenthal added. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), the ranking member of the subcommittee, said Congress should have taken action "years ago." Béjar alleged Meta executives know about the harm to kids and potential mitigation solutions but chose not to act. "We cannot trust them with our children and it's time for Congress to act," Béjar said. Meta pushed back strongly on Béjar's allegations and assessment. Company spokesperson Andy Stone said that there have been changes made to Meta-owned platforms as a result of surveys like the ones Béjar highlighted. Read more in a full report at TheHill.com. |
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Political advertisers will not be allowed to use Meta's new generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools, the company said on Monday. Meta began rolling out its generative AI features for advertisers, which can create multiple backgrounds and versions of ad text and automatically adjust image and video sizing, in early October. However, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram said in a note on Monday that they cannot … |
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| Coinbase adds former defense secretary, congresswoman amid crypto scrutiny |
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Trading platform Coinbase said Tuesday it has added four Washington, D.C., heavyweights at a tense moment for the cryptocurrency industry. |
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As more than 300 banking and investment executives gathered in Hong Kong to discuss "living with complexity" in the financial world, they ended up trading trepidations about an uncertain future. "My biggest fear is there's one more geopolitical escalation and there's a market event," Christian Sewing, chief executive officer of Deutsche Bank, said Tuesday at the Global Financial Leaders' Investment Summit in Hong Kong. … |
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New alerts on Waze warn of accident-prone roads |
Waze, a crowd-sourced navigation app, is rolling out a new safety feature that alerts drivers when they are approaching a particularly accident-prone portion of the road, The Verge reported. |
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YouTube tests AI-generated comment summaries |
YouTube is testing out a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool that would generate summaries of the comment sections beneath videos and organize them by topic, Mashable reported. |
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Upcoming news themes and events we're watching: |
- The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions subcommittee on primary health and retirement security will hold a hearing on potential harms of artificial intelligence in health care on Wednesday at 2:30 p.m.
- The Senate will hold the fifth and sixth AI Insight Forums in two sessions — one about elections and another about privacy and liability — Wednesday.
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Two key stories on The Hill right now: |
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Former President Trump's attorney Alina Habba went after New York Attorney General Letitia James on Monday, saying she's "just not that bright." James … Read more |
| Special counsel David Weiss on Tuesday appeared in a closed-door meeting with congressional investigators probing his leadership of the Hunter Biden … Read more |
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