The UK’s proposed Online Safety Bill, while clearly well-intentioned, honestly feels like it’s probably doomed to be a somewhat embarrassing failure. I mean, most ...
November 30, 2022 at 8:22 am by Mike Sanders
It’s very easy to get angry at big-tech companies. Mostly because their total market dominance has largely wiped out much of their competition that once required them to ...
September 29, 2021 at 8:09 am by Mike Sanders
Microsoft Investigates Racist Bing Search Engine Results Ok. So I think it’s pretty fair to say that not many people use Bing. Despite Microsoft pushing us (rather hard) ...
October 13, 2018 at 9:43 am by Mike Sanders
Sims Community Manager Asks Fans To Stop Attacking The Staff The Sims 4 has had a bit of a bumpy road since it launched. To me, it epitomised everything that was going wrong ...
September 29, 2018 at 10:00 am by Mike Sanders
Nearly Half Of UK Internet Users Claim To Have Suffered ‘Harm’ The internet can be a fun place. Full of laughter, comedy, pathos and, of course, information. It ...
September 19, 2018 at 1:30 pm by Mike Sanders
EU Tells Internet Giants To Remove Bad Content Inside An Hour A major factor that social media and internet companies have had to deal with in recent years is hateful or ...
August 20, 2018 at 2:29 pm by Mike Sanders
Gab Ordered By Microsoft To Remove Anti-Semitic Content You may not have heard of Gab, but in terms of brand new social media platforms, it’s doing quite well. The ...
August 10, 2018 at 12:07 pm by Mike Sanders
Facebook Issue Infowars Alex Jones With 30 Day Ban You may or may not have heard of Alex Jones or Infowars. Perhaps you should consider yourself lucky if you haven’t. To ...
July 30, 2018 at 1:18 pm by Mike Sanders
Facebook Will Not Ban Hate or Conspiracy Theorist Pages Facebook has been fighting off bad news stories left, right and centre for the last 6 months. The social media site has ...
July 19, 2018 at 2:09 pm by Mike Sanders
Facebook Algorithm Finds the American Declaration Of Independence As Hate Speech With Independence day landing in America a couple days ago, the nation was celebrating the day ...
July 6, 2018 at 11:38 am by Mike Sanders
Facebook Shuts Down Over Half A Billion Fake Accounts Facebook has certainly been the focus of some intense scrutiny over the last year. That in no small part due to the way ...
May 16, 2018 at 10:47 am by Mike Sanders
Social Media Social Media has had a rough ride over the last couple years. Whether it’s election tampering, spreading hate speech or distributing fake news, they have ...
February 15, 2018 at 3:26 pm by Mike Sanders
Twitter Account Purges In November, Twitter announced its new rules to deal with the problem of abuse, hate speech and general behavior on their social media platform. As of ...
December 18, 2017 at 12:53 pm by Mike Sanders
Twitter starts removing ‘Verified’ ticks as new guidelines come into effect Social media, in general, has been under a lot of scrutinies recently. Specifically, in ...
November 16, 2017 at 1:03 pm by Mike Sanders
A UK government committee has ruled that the social media giants are “shamefully far” from addressing illegal, dangerous and hateful content. Evidence was found ...
May 1, 2017 at 8:33 pm by Mike Sanders
