AvatarThe Washington PostAvatarAvatar1 day agoAI hustlers stole women’s faces to put in ads. The law can’t help them.verified_publisherThe Washington Post - By Nitasha Tiku and Pranshu VermaMichel Janse was on her honeymoon when she found out she had been cloned. The 27-year-old content creator was with her husband in a rented cabin in snowy Maine when messages from her followers began trickling in, warning that a YouTube commercial was using her likeness to promote erectile …
AvatarThe Washington PostAvatarAvatar1 day agoPrincess Catherine cancer video spawns fresh round of AI conspiraciesverified_publisherThe Washington Post - Tatum HunterWhen Catherine, Princess of Wales, released a video statement last week sharing that she had been diagnosed with cancer, some users on social media said they regretted engaging in wild speculation about her prolonged public absence. But others jumped immediately to a new conspiracy: The video was …
AvatarThe Washington PostAvatarAvatar1 day agoMeta is failing to curb anti-trans hate, new report saysverified_publisherThe Washington Post - Taylor LorenzThe LGBTQ advocacy group GLAAD issued a report Wednesday documenting dozens of anti-trans posts on Facebook, Instagram and Threads, Meta’s primary social media outlets, and calling on the company to better enforce its policies against such posts. Some of the posts were made by high-profile political …
AvatarThe Washington PostAvatarAvatar2 days agoHow apps are turning you into an unpaid lobbyistverified_publisherThe Washington Post - Shira OvideImagine seeing a message on your Ford’s dashboard screen: The automaker wants you to support the government’s new electric vehicle proposal. That sounds weird, right? But TikTok is essentially using that tactic. If you opened the app in recent weeks, TikTok may have urged you to contact Congress to …
AvatarThe Washington PostAvatarAvatar2 days agoTrump’s Truth Social surges in DJT stock debut, but questions remainverified_publisherThe Washington Post - Drew HarwellFormer president Donald Trump’s social media start-up surged Tuesday in its first day of trading as a public company, a stock-market debut that helped deliver the Republican presidential candidate a multibillion-dollar paper fortune. Trump Media & Technology Group, which owns the social network …
AvatarThe Washington PostAvatarAvatar3 days agoU.S., Britain sanction China for broad 14-year hacking campaignverified_publisherThe Washington Post - Ellen NakashimaThe Justice Department on Monday unsealed an indictment charging seven Chinese state-sponsored hackers with a broad 14-year campaign to target U.S. and foreign critics, businesses and political officials to advance Beijing’s economic espionage and political spying goals. In tandem, the Treasury …
AvatarThe Washington PostAvatarAvatar3 days agoTrump Media soars in first day of public tradingverified_publisherThe Washington Post - Drew HarwellFormer president Donald Trump’s social media start-up surged in its first day of trading as a public company Tuesday, a stock-market debut that helped deliver the Republican presidential candidate a multibillion-dollar fortune. The newly merged Trump Media & Technology Group, which owns the social …
AvatarThe Washington PostAvatarAvatar3 days agoMusk tried to ‘punish’ critics, judge rules, in tossing a lawsuitverified_publisherThe Washington Post - By Will Oremus and Taylor TelfordA federal judge in California on Monday threw out the entirety of a lawsuit by Elon Musk’s X against the nonprofit Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), ruling that the lawsuit was an attempt to silence X’s critics. “X Corp.’s motivation in bringing this case is evident,” U.S. District Judge …
AvatarThe Washington PostAvatarAvatar3 days agoFlorida latest to restrict social media for kids as legal battle loomsverified_publisherThe Washington Post - By María Luisa Paúl and Cristiano Lima-StrongFlorida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday signed strong restrictions against children using social media, following other Republican-led states amid a national push to crack down on minors’ access to online platforms over safety fears. “You can have a kid in the house safe, seemingly, and then you have …
AvatarThe Washington PostAvatarAvatar3 days agoE.U. probes Google, Apple, Meta under its new competition lawverified_publisherThe Washington Post - Eva DouThe European Commission has opened investigations into Google, Apple and Meta under a powerful new competition law that went into effect this month, in a signal of Brussels’s intention to move swiftly to rein in Big Tech. The probes come just days after the three companies gave day-long …
AvatarThe Washington PostAvatarAvatar3 days agoGen Z embraces side hustles because ‘loyalty is dead’verified_publisherThe Washington Post - Danielle AbrilNatalie Fischer is obsessed with making money online. Even though the 25-year-old has a master’s degree and landed a data analytics job that paid six figures, the Seattle-area resident has always had online side hustles. At one point, she was working up to an extra 30 hours a week by offering tips …
AvatarThe Washington PostAvatarAvatar4 days agoNeed to get to the airport? Soon you can take an air taxi.verified_publisherThe Washington Post - Edward RussellLast November, a small, white, oblong helicopter with four passenger seats and six whirring electric engines took off from the Downtown Manhattan Heliport. Several people, including Mayor Eric Adams, watched as the air taxi known as an eVTOL — an electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft — flew …