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An ex-Harvard professor says his AI could prevent the next world war. Critics say it could start one.
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An Iraqi historian was slain after being labeled a spy on Facebook. Exclusive emails show catastrophic delays in removing threatening posts.
A new report by one of Meta's largest global partners shows life-endangering oversights at scale in the company's content-moderation strategy.
Meta must 'unplug the hate machine' civil society groups say in open letter, citing Insider's reporting
A $1.6 billion lawsuit against Meta alleges its algorithm helped spread hate speech in Ethiopia. Insider reported that Meta's experts were ignored.
A professor was murdered after a Facebook post branded him a traitor. Was Facebook complicit in his death?
Facebook's "trusted partners" in Ethiopia say the platform was slow to reply to urgent hate speech warnings and allowed hateful content to stay online.
Meta is changing who handles content moderation in East Africa. It isn't changing the dismal state of how social media stays sanitized.
The firm is ending its partnership with a controversial outsourcing firm. Insider's reporting from last summer shows its new partner isn't any better.
I'm a Twitter employee. Here's what it's like at the company a day before Musk's purchase deadline.
Twitter is likely to be acquired by Elon Musk Friday. One employee describes how staff have reacted to his 'volatile' public comments about the sale.
Tech workers who were laid off at Peloton, Microsoft, Tesla, and elsewhere share exactly what went down
"I've never experienced such lack of empathy," says a former Coinbase program manager, who with thousands of others was impacted by Big Tech layoffs.
TikTok's content moderators watched beheadings, child sexual abuse, and other horrors. The aftermath is messy — and they say the company doesn't care.
Describing a culture of overwork and constant surveillance, moderators say their jobs left them traumatized. But TikTok was supposed to be different.
I'm a Twitter engineer who was at the all-hands with Elon Musk. Some of my colleagues are experiencing 'Musk-derangement syndrome,' but I found him motivating — here's why.
An engineer at the Twitter all-hands where Elon Musk addressed employees said his colleagues were freaking out but he didn't share their worries.
I'm a Twitter employee who was at the all-hands meeting after Elon Musk bought the company. I'm not freaking out like everyone else.
"Musk's a determinate optimist and a hardened pragmatist," the employee said. They continued, "He's a boss who understands the product."
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