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Los Angeles County agreed to pay $5 million to the top executive of an election software company who had been arrested and charged in 2022 with mishandling voter data in a case that prosecutors dropped a few weeks later, the executive’s lawyer said this week. The payment, which settles a lawsuit filed last year, is…

CNN  —  Just because it’s on the internet doesn’t make it true. It seems so simple, but if everyone knew that, Facebook and Google wouldn’t have to pull bogus news sites from their advertising algorithms and people wouldn’t breathlessly share stories that claim Donald Trump is a secret lizard person or Hillary Clinton is an…

Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg will be deposed as part of a Texas lawsuit accusing the Facebook and Instagram parent of using facial recognition technology without customer consent. A Texas state appeals court upheld a lower court’s decision requiring Zuckerberg to give testimony in the case. The lawsuit, originally filed in 2022, accused Meta of “secretly…

News outlets are experiencing major losses in visitor traffic – and hits to their revenue – as Facebook and Instagram parent Meta pivots away from the news business, according to a report. Despite its massive base of more than three billion users, Mark Zuckerberg’s social-media apps accounted for just 33% of overall social media traffic…

Social media company X is in the process of hiring 100 content moderators for a new office in Austin, Texas that will focus on fighting child abuse content, a goal it hopes to complete by the end of the year, an X executive said on Saturday. The Elon Musk-owned company announced the new “Trust and…

Microsoft said Thursday that it would eliminate 1,900 roles in its video game division, including at Activision Blizzard, which it acquired for $69 billion three months ago. The job cuts will be made at the video game giant Activision, the maker of hit games like Call of Duty and Guitar Hero, as well as Xbox,…