Ben Goggin

Regular meth users say online platforms have fundamentally changed the experience of using, worsening parts of an already blazing global meth addiction problem.

Court records show that Wickr Me has become part of a toolkit used by people who exploit children. Law enforcement and child abuse experts say it’s not taking basic safety measures.

NBC News found that searches for two terms and hashtags related to abortion pills returned almost no new posts, indicating that the company is limiting what users can see.

Sammy’s Law, or the Let Parents Choose Protection Act, is being drafted by Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, adding to other legislative efforts directed at tech companies and backed by parents.

NBC News reported last week that a proposed law would force social media companies to provide more access to child surveillance apps.

The small social media platform backed by former President Trump’s media company was an echo chamber of anger leading up to an incident in Ohio that left one user dead.

Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn said in an interview that the overhauled version of his app is simpler and better.

The song was created by an artist who says his song was improperly copied, used and distributed.

The hourslong interview on a conspiracy theory website gave Ye a platform to make antisemitic statements with little challenge from the host.

The decision to shut down the app follows an NBC News investigation that revealed it had become a go-to tool for people trading child sexual abuse material.

A group of Twitter employees met over the weekend to accelerate plans to address the accounts that promote the sale of such material, a Twitter executive said.

Despite OpenAI’s effort to address concerns around academic cheating, ChatGPT itself will help you get around the company’s new AI detection technology.

Dorsey, the co-founder of Twitter and the head of Block Inc, has previously supported unconventional Democratic candidates.

Nawfal, who has rapidly gained online fame and been boosted by Elon Musk, denied any wrongdoing.

A doctored White House news release posted online falsely claimed that the Biden administration had authorized $8 billion in emergency aid to Israel on Saturday. The fact that it was faked didn’t stop it from being posted across the internet and rising to the top of Google search results. The faked document is one of the most far-reaching instances of misinformation to come out of the most recent violent conflict between Hamas and Israel. It fooled several online publications into writing full a…

Meta’s WhatsApp messaging company says that forwarded messages stoking fears about potential cyberattacks targeting Jewish people have no basis in reality. The warnings appear to have begun circulating Saturday on numerous online platforms. On Saturday evening, crypto influencer Scott Melker, who has almost 1 million followers on X, posted the warning asking that people share it. The warning says that hackers will try to get people to download a file through WhatsApp called “Seismic Waves CARD”…

The community fact-checking feature that Elon Musk has touted as a way to fight false and misleading information on X is struggling to keep up with a flood of content related to the Israel-Hamas war. The system, Community Notes, relies on approved volunteers to suggest notes to be appended to posts. Those posts are then voted on by other volunteers and eventually published after they reach a certain threshold of “helpful” votes from “people with different points of view,” according to X. The not…

A human rights watchdog group said Thursday that Israel’s military has used white phosphorus munitions in recent days in Gaza and Lebanon, weapons that can cause severe burns and are considered particularly dangerous for civilians due to their indiscriminate nature. Human Rights Watch said that videos recorded in Lebanon and Gaza on Tuesday and Wednesday showed airdropped white phosphorus artillery rounds — an assessment that was vehemently denied by Israeli officials. Human Rights Watch said th…

A human rights watchdog group said Thursday that Israel’s military has used white phosphorus munitions in recent days in Gaza and Lebanon, weapons that can cause severe burns and are considered particularly dangerous for civilians due to their indiscriminate nature. Human Rights Watch said that videos recorded in Lebanon and Gaza on Tuesday and Wednesday showed airdropped white phosphorus artillery rounds — an assessment that was vehemently denied by Israeli officials. Human Rights Watch said th…

Ella Irwin wasn’t always a public person. Before joining Twitter, she had worked in lower-profile roles, including in loss prevention at banks and then in trust and safety at companies like Google, Amazon and Twilio. That all changed in November 2022. Just five months after joining the company, she took on one of the most contentious jobs in all of tech: head of trust and safety for Twitter. She would last just seven more months. In June, Irwin resigned from the company after Musk publicly crit…