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TikTok has released a new transparency report focused on providing specific information regarding detected influence operations that have been removed from its app. In addition to that, the report explains the company’s updated state-affiliated media policy.

 

This report is different from previous transparency reports that TikTok has put out from time to time in compliance with industry requirements. The current report includes details of 15 influence operations that TikTok claims to have disrupted. You can see case-by-case breakdowns of all detected groups along with the magnitude of their “covert operations” between April 1 - April 30, 2024.

 




The details consist of the number of profiles in and total followers of each group, and a brief description of each group’s intent as identified by TikTok. Elaborating on the collective intent of the detected groups, TikTok says that “a majority of these networks were attempting to influence political discourse among their target audience, including in relation to elections.”

TikTok’s Latest Transparency Report Provides Disclosure on Influence Operations of State-Affiliated Groups



A 2020 lawsuit put forth by Google account holders resulted in filing of a proposed class action settlement on Monday in a California federal court. The lawsuit accused Google of illegal tracking of users’ activity in Incognito mode. In the filed settlement, Google has therefore declared that it will destroy all the billions of records of web browsing data of its users collected from its private browser.

 

In addition to this, the proposed settlement requires Google to provide greater transparency regarding its data collection processes in Incognito mode and how the company will be putting limits on these processes in the future. Google will also need to de-identify any data that is not entirely deleted. Lastly, Google has also agreed to let users block third-party cookies by default in Incognito mode, so as to prevent tracking on outside websites as they browse privately.

Google Agrees to Destroy User Data Collected in Incognito Mode in a Proposed Settlement



GLAAD, the largest advocacy organization for LGBTQ+ , accuses Meta in its new report of allowing hate against the trans community to a dangerous extent on its platform.

 

In the report, GLAAD provides evidence that shows how Meta’s moderation system has enabled a large number of violent and hateful posts against trans people, that are potentially responsible for propaganda campaigns and offline violence. The evidence cited exhibits posts with anti-trans content posted to Facebook, Instagram, and Threads from June 2023 to March 2024 by anti-trans extremists.

 

The posts appear to consist of hateful language and slur, which GLAAD has reported to Meta via its standard reporting systems. However, the organization asserts that Meta’s systems either failed to recognize the reported content as problematic or refused to take it down, even though it clearly violated the company’s policy against hate speech. This in turn poses real-life harm to the LGBTQ+ community.

LGBTQ+ Advocacy Group GLAAD Expresses Angst against Meta for Enabling Anti-Trans Content

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