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A Danish man has been sentenced to prison in a “historic” case after being found guilty of fraudulently profiting from royalties on hundreds of tracks on music streaming sites.In the country’s first case of its kind, the 53-year-old man from East Jutland, whom the Danish press has decided not to name, was convicted on Thursday of making at least 2m Danish kroner (£229,676) from artificially generated streams of “several hundred” music tracks.Prosecutors had said that the numbers of streams required to generate that amount…

Coined by the World Health Organization to denote a hypothetical future pandemic, "Disease X" is at the center of a blizzard of misinformation that American conspiracy theorists are amplifying – and profiting from.The falsehoods, including that the unknown pathogen indicates an elitist plot to depopulate the Earth, appeared to originate in the United States but spilled to Asia in multiple regional languages, AFP fact-checkers found.The fast-spreading misinformation, which experts say illustrates the perils of reduced…

The head of the United Nations on Friday called for technology firms to stop profiting from the proliferation of toxic content after accusing social media platforms of complicity in fuelling antisemitism, racism and anti-Muslim bigotry."Tech companies should assume their responsibilities and stop profiting from the amplification of toxic content of all kinds," U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said at the Munich Security Conference.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering…

The parent company of the adult entertainment site Pornhub admitted on Thursday to profiting from videos of sex trafficking victims and agreed to pay more than $1.8 million, according to federal prosecutors. Aylo Holdings will also make payments to the victims who appeared on its platforms and will be subject to an independent monitor for three years, under a prosecution agreement reached with the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York. “Motivated by profit, Aylo Holdings…

The FTC is free to limit how Meta profits off of children and tighten how the company uses user data. Meta had asked a federal judge to take over a dispute with the FTC, which the judge refused. This allows FTC to change a $5 billion settlement for the way they used data…

More than two dozen Democratic lawmakers on Tuesday accused X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, of failing to curb and profiting from misinformation and violent content related to the Israel-Hamas war. In a letter to X CEO Linda Yaccarino and owner Elon Musk, the lawmakers voiced concerns about the social media company’s “ongoing failure” to enforce its policies on “the promotion of misinformation and hateful, violent, and terroristic propaganda videos” since the outbreak of the conflict last month.…

November 21, 2023 @ 3:51 PM Over two dozen House Democrats signed an open letter on Tuesday to Elon Musk and X CEO Linda Yaccarino saying that their social media platform has become a “hotbed of misinformation and terrorist propaganda,” and the platform has been profiting off of related videos from Hamas since the Oct. 7 attacks on Israeli civilians.   Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) and Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) penned the open letter, published Tuesday and signed by another 25 Democratic colleagues, including Rep.…

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The US Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday accused Meta's Facebook of misleading parents about protections for children and proposed tightening an existing agreement on privacy to include a ban on making money from minors' data.Specifically, the FTC said Facebook misled parents about how much control they had over who their children had contact with in the Messenger Kids app and was deceptive about how much access app developers had to users' private data, breaching a 2019 agreement on privacy.The FTC's proposed changes…

The US Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday accused Meta's Facebook of misleading parents about protections for children and proposed tightening an existing agreement on privacy to include a ban on making money from minors' data. Specifically, the FTC said Facebook misled parents about how much control they had over who their children had contact with in the Messenger Kids app and was deceptive about how much access app developers had to users' private data, breaching a 2019 agreement on privacy. The FTC's proposed…