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https://www.reuters.com/technology/meta-adds-measures-protect-teens-harmful-content-facebook-instagram-2024-01-09/

I wish they’d formally separate Reels from Instagram. I hate how Reels now dominate my Instagram feed and they’re people or things I don’t even follow.

Just me or has there been a dramatic escalation of fake AI-generated scam ads on Facebook and Instagram today? Ive seen Mary Fowler arrested, Hamish Blake video selling weight loss, and Mark Latham dead!

Stop clicking on them. :wink:

landslide of support in the House – 352 Congress members voted in favor of the bill and only 65 voted against –

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Hopefully it gets passed. ByteDance should not be allowed to own TikTok due to its connections with the CCP.

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Bruce Wolpe, a Senior Fellow (non-resident) at the United States Studies Centre in Canberra, has written an opinion piece for The Age and SMH websites, on the bill that passed the House.

US Congress passes bill that could ban TikTok if it’s not sold to non-Chinese ownership within 6 months:

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Wow, more than half the US population (approx 330 mil) uses TikTok? I’ve never used it. Anything good on it usually gets uploaded to YouTube anyway.

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I think it’s a generational thing. I’ve never signed up for it either.

I get the feeling my generation (Gen Why) is increasingly over social media. Many of my peers have left it altogether; I’m only on socials to share my radio show at this point.

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Yeah, I’m only on FB for school reunions and as a way for people to contact me. I never post or interact in any other way on it.

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Interesting. But I think the opposition should focus on their own messy backyard first.