The metaverse’s merging of the physical and digital worlds offers exciting new opportunities for brands to forge connections with consumers across a wide range of sectors, including retail, gaming, ...

Neither founder took a meeting with the major VC firms. They dropped out of college in France, taught themselves everything ...

Now, she’s vice president of trust and safety at WebPurify, a content moderation service provider that works with businesses to help ensure the content people post on their sites follows the rules.

Is it possible for people with alcohol use disorders to heal, resolve their drinking problems, and then safely continue to drink in moderation? It's a controversial idea, but some experts say that for ...

Irina Raicu is the director of the Internet Ethics program at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. Views are her own. On the first Friday in February, the High Tech Law ...

Social platform Bluesky is open-sourcing its moderation tool Ozone, allowing users to choose exactly how the content on their timelines is moderated. With the introduction of Ozone, Bluesky is ...

Instagram failed to remove 93% of hateful and extremist content reported by the ADL’s researchers, a figure the watchdog said ...

A lighting flare, fired by Israel forces in the sky, is viewed in the northwest of Gaza on October 31, 2023. We’ve all seen a proliferation of sensational, divisive, and false content online relating ...

The Supreme Court will rule this year on the constitutionality of a pair of bills from Florida and Texas that would drastically reduce social media platforms’ discretion in removing user content. The ...

Climate change articles trigger some of the most heated discussions on Ars Technica. Unlike discussions about which virtual keyboard is better or which approach to cloud storage makes the most sense, ...