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Facebook using artificial intelligence to combat terrorist propaganda
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 16.6.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, threat
Summary | Facebook uses artificial intelligence to get rid of terrorist propaganda on its platform. For instance, when a terrorist photo/video is uploaded, the system sees whether they match a known photo/video. Also, Facebook uses AI to analyze text.
Image Description | Digital image of the Facebook icon.
Image Tags | Facebook, logo
Rogue chatbots deleted in China after questioning Communist Party
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 3.8.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, censorship
Summary | A Chinese messaging app decided to shut down two chatbots that questioned the Communist Party. For instance, the robots said that democracy was a must, and that they didn't like the Communist Party.
Image Description | Smartphone screen displaying app icons, and icons of apps JOOX and QQ.
Image Tags | logo, smartphone
Farhad's and Mike's Week in Tech: A Snap and Google Tie-Up?
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 5.8.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, Google, Instagram, marketing, Snapchat
Summary | There is a rumor that Google might be interested in acquiring Snapchat. Instagram copies all features of Snapchat. Facebook has built a huge marketing company with Facebook itself and Instagram. Facebook is also working on improving its artificially intelligent chatbots so that they get better at understanding natural speech.
Image Description | Google and Snapchat logo.
Image Tags | Google, logo, Snapchat
Germany Tells Sites to Delete Hate or Pay Up
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 30.6.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, censorship, cyberbullying, Facebook, fake news, law, threat
Summary | Germany has the strictest policies when it comes to illegalizing slanderous, threatening, and extremist language from public spaces. Germany has just passed a law that allows them to fine Facebook as much as 57 million dollars if they do not remove offensive content quickly enough from the platform. While some may say this is censorship , German lawmakers claim that respectful online encounters are a necessity for free speech to thrive. Facebook is now working on improving the flagging process for offensive material and are also using artificial intelligence to remove fake news.
Image Description | Blurry man looking at a smartphone with the Facebook logo in the background.
Image Tags | Facebook, logo, male(s), smartphone
Facebook Will Use Artificial Intelligence to Uncover Extremist Posts
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 15.6.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, censorship, Facebook, politics, threat
Summary | Facebook has been urged by both users and politicians to do more to combat extremist content on their platform. It is Facebook's responsibility to monitor the content they allow so as not to provide a safe space for extremists. Facebook has announced that they plan to employ artificial intelligence to help them flag extremist content.
Image Description | An image of a man and blurry silhouettes standing under a Facebook logo.
Image Tags | Facebook, female(s), logo, male(s)
Gesucht: Putzkräfte fürs Netz
(Wanted: cleaning personnel for the net)
Newspaper | Die Zeit
Date | 10.5.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, cyberbullying, Facebook, fake news, law
Summary | Facebook is hiring thousands of people to check their platform for offensive content. Artificial intelligence and algorhythms have proven to be incapable of dealing with all nuances of human communication. They were not able to reliably identify cyberbullying content and fake news. Facebook is admitting the boundaries of technological possibilities and now hiring humans to do the job.
Image Description | Reuters image of a hand holding a smartphone in front of a screen showing the Facebook logo.
Image Tags | Facebook, hand(s), logo, smartphone
Facebook must show it can follow its own rules on child safety
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 7.3.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, censorship, Facebook
Summary | Facebook is struggling to comply to its own rules which prohibit all nudity from the platform. Their artificial intelligence software designed to take down all images of nudity works unreliably. Although Facebook is one of the safest spaces online, there are still problems.
Image Description | Reuters image of a lot of Facebook logos through a magnifying glass.
Image Tags | Facebook, hand(s), logo
Twitter brings IBM's AI machine Watson on board to fight abuse
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 23.3.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, cyberbullying, Twitter
Summary | Twitter are responding to growing criticism about the mass of abuse happening on the platform. The are launching a new artificial intelligence helper to detect abuse. His name is Watson and he is very good at understanding subtle meanings and intentions as well as analysis images.
Image Description | Reuters image of silhouettes holding smartphones in front of the Twitter logo,
Image Tags | hand(s), logo, smartphone, Twitter
Tackling abuse on social media is a monumental task - but billion dollar companies should be up to it
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 15.3.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, cyberbullying, law, social media, threat
Summary | Social media have a huge problem with trolling, cyberbullying, and sharing of criminal content. It is however extremely difficult for providers to find such content before it is reported or seen by many. Especially in verbal abuse, the line between joking and slander is blurred and human language is too messy to be able to flag down such instances with algorhythms.
Image Description | Getty image of the Facebook logo on a hand-held smartphone and a laptop and a photograph of a screen showing the Twitter logo.
Image Tags | Facebook, hand(s), logo, Twitter
Das ist an Messenger-Verschwörungstheorien dran
(This is the deal with messenger conspiracy theories)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 5.11.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, privacy, Snapchat, texting, threat, WhatsApp
Summary | A list of popular messengers is analyzed in terms of how well they protect their users' privacy. The safest one is Signal and many others have end-to-end encryption, for instance WhatsApp. They still collect the metadata though (interlocutors, time of interaction, location). Some even save the content that is sent around - most shockingly Snapchat which is popular becuase it supposedly leaves no trace. Some messengers supposedly have ties with national security ministries, like Telegram in Russia and Viber in Israel. Apple recently refused to work with the FBI in giving away a customer's personal information.
Image Description | Photograph of a smartphone screen with messengers and a video about messengers.
Image Tags | hand(s), logo, smartphone, WhatsApp
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