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In the first known study to estimate social media platform-specific advertising revenue from youth, researchers at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard University revealed social media giants made nearly $11 billion in advertising revenue from U.S.-based users younger than 18 last year. Read More.

'Congressional districts are apportioned to states based on the population of citizens and NONCITIZENS,' warns GOP rep. Thomas Massie. Read More.

Facebook introduces a confusing new setting as the walls close in on Zuckerberg’s data machine. Read More.

With Taiwan’s elections just two weeks away, concerns about Chinese interference in the elections have become more prominent. Read More.

In a year-end report, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts spoke on his "go-slow" approach to dealing with matters concerning artificial intelligence. Read More.

On Saturday, popular account Libs of TikTok announced its suspension from Facebook. Read More.

The confetti has settled, the fireworks have faded, and a crisp, new year stretches before us like an unfurled scroll. 2023,with its triumphs and trials, is now etched in memory, a chapter closed and sealed. But as we stand at the threshold of 2024, a thrilling anticipation hums in the air. For within this blank page lies the potential for countless stories, the promise of uncharted journeys, and the chance to make our dreams dance with reality. Read More.

A new study has found that only 3.4 percent of American journalists are Republicans. Read More.

Apple has discreetly updated its legal guidelines. Now, the company requires U.S. law enforcement agencies to obtain a court order first before gaining access to specific aspects of Apple customer data. According to Apple’s updated guidelines, the company will only release customer data about push notifications with law enforcement “in response to a search warrant issued upon […] Read More.

Google has filed an application with the US Patent and Trademark Office for a tool that would use machine learning (ML, a subset of AI) to detect what Google decides to consider as “misinformation” on social media. Read More.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn dedicated his book about the end state of communism ‘to all those who did not live to tell it.’ Read More.

Michael Shellenberger’s ‘Twitter Files’ reporting exposed a world of government-tech coordination he didn’t know existed. Read More.

“I'm just devastated,” Dick Smothers, told the AP of his former co-host and partner. “Every breath I’ve taken, my brother’s been around.” Read More.

Harvard Corporation members Tracy Palandjian and Paul Finnegan (both right) met with four professors from the school at Bar Enza in Cambridge. Read More.

Major mining pools filtering transactions from sanctioned addresses would mean a whole new era for Bitcoin, with protocol-level censorship. Read More.