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Scams enhanced by artificial intelligence (AI) have the potential to reach a new level of deception with the introduction of features such as ChatGPT 4o, that allow users to create convincing, photorealistic images, including fake documents, and realistic deepfake voices.聽 聽 A panel of Virginia Tech experts, including computer ethics educator Dan Dunlap, digital literacy educator Julia Feerrar, cybersecurity researcher Murat聽Kantarcioglu, and criminologist Katalin Parti, discussed the implications of this ever-advancing technology.

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A journalist was inadvertently added to a group chat on the encrypted app Signal between high-level U.S government officials planning a military operation. Virginia Tech cybersecurity and social platform experts France B茅langer, Aaron Brantly, Jimmy Ivory and Anthony Vance explain what Signal is, how it works, and how such a breach of national security could happen.

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Social media influencers (SMIs) pose psychological, health and security risks and need tighter regulation, a new study finds.

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Social media company Meta will end its fact-checking programs, with platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, and Threads shifting to a crowdsourcing model similar to X's Community Notes. Virginia Tech experts Megan Duncan, Cayce Myers, and Julia Feerrar offer insights as to how effective crowdsourced fact-checking could be, and how users can guard against misinformation.

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Various emerging technologies (from cloud and edge computing and applied AI to virtual reality and blockchain) increasingly complicate cyber risk management. And intensifying this dynamic are 鈥渞isk entanglement,鈥� the 鈥渋nterconnectedness (鈥榥ot Internet鈥�) of things鈥� and, more simply, bad actors.

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KINGSTON, R.I. 鈥� Jan. 14, 2025 鈥� Meta, the social networking giant that owns Facebook, Instagram and Threads, has announced that it will end its fact-checking program to moderate user content and replace it with a 鈥渃ommunity notes鈥� model.In a video on Jan. 7, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the changes would reduce mistakes caused by the system the company created to moderate its platforms, while simplifying moderation policies and restoring 鈥渇ree expression on our platforms.

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Meta will discontinue its fact-checking partnerships and introduce user-generated 鈥渃ommunity notes鈥� for content moderation on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads, aligning with similar changes made by... ...

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A federal court has ruled that Google illegally abused its market power to suppress competition in internet search engines. ...

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The Australian government has introduced legislation to set 16 as the minimum age for social media use, with penalties up to 50 million AUD ($32.5 million) for platforms failing to enforce the... ...

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Online e-cigarette retailers are not consistently adhering to laws aimed at preventing the sale of vaping products to minors, including regulations on age verification, shipping methods and flavor restrictions, report researchers at the Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science at University of California San Diego.

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New research from the University of Notre Dame analyzed the AI bot policies and mechanisms of eight social media platforms: LinkedIn, Mastodon, Reddit, TikTok, X (formerly known as Twitter) and Meta platforms Facebook, Instagram and Threads. Then researchers attempted to launch bots to test bot policy enforcement processes.

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A coalition of over a dozen states and the District of Columbia has聽filed lawsuits against TikTok, claiming the platform鈥檚 algorithm and design features intentionally addict children, causing mental... ...

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