对与COVID-19相关的虚假信息的传播表示关注,联邦贸易专员 Rohit Chopra said Congress may need “to reassess the special privileges afforded to tech platforms, especially given their vast power to curate and present content in ways that may manipulate users.” His words implicate 上e of our favorite topics here 在 Socially Aware: 《通讯端正法》第230条,通常可以保护网站免受第三方发布内容的责任。
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law legislation requiring Florida state agencies, local governments and firms that contract with them to use the E-Verify system, an 上line database operated by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security that can confirm a person’s eligibility to work in the United States.
在一系列推文侮辱土耳其总统雷塞普·塔伊普·埃尔多安(Recep Tayyip Erdogan)的家人之后,总统 向议会提交了立法 that would require social media companies with more than 1 million daily users in Turkey to appoint someone responsible for, among other things, responding to the company’s alleged violations of privacy laws.
中国最近实施的安全法(其中包括颠覆,分裂国家,恐怖主义和与外国势力勾结的法律)使许多香港人“清理他们的社交媒体帐户。”
Pop-up brokers tried to capitalize 上 the scarcity of personal protective equipment—especially masks—meant to safeguard people against COVID-19 by connecting with suppliers 上 LinkedIn. Learn 是什么让该社交媒体平台方便对有兴趣购买商品的卖家和骗子.
在 a suit that Socially Aware covered last year, a federal district court in New York was able to avoid addressing whether a defamation claim against television show host Joy Reid should be dismissed based 上 the safe harbor in 《通讯端正法》第230条. 的 reason: 的 plaintiff in the suit failed to prove actual malice,才能成功针对公众人物提出诽谤诉讼。退还时, 2020年7月美国上诉法院 再次传递了回答重推问题的机会,他认为:“ [原告的最初投诉包括Reid对Vargas推文的转发;但由于[原告]后来放弃了这一主张,因此我们无需决定转推是否符合第230条的豁免规定。我们也没有要求确定第230节是否保护原本复制(不带署名)另一用户帖子的社交媒体用户,这个问题可能会因恶意和公众身份而变得复杂。
This opinion piece argues that, because facial recognition technology can be inaccurate and biased, and “privacy-encroaching facial recognition companies rely 上 social media platforms to scrape and collect user facial data,” 社交媒体平台应添加“请勿追踪”选项 for users’ faces.