Las denuncias de sesgo contra plataformas digitales se multiplican en las elecciones de Brasil
Las denuncias contra Meta, Google y X por presuntos sesgos y contenidos engañosos trasladan la batalla entre Lula y Flávio Bolsonaro al terreno tecnológico.

The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.

Google LLC, founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, is one of the most influential technology companies in the world. Originally developed as a search engine...

ネットで拡散止まぬ誤報、 背景にFBとグーグルの資金
フェイスブックやグーグルなどのプラットフォームによる誤報の拡散は今や、世界中の情報生態系の深刻な悪化を招いている。しかも両社は、誤報やデマを拡散しているクリックベイト・ページ(釣り記事)の運営者に資金を提供しているのだ。

How Facebook and Google fund global misinformation
The tech giants are paying millions of dollars to the operators of clickbait pages, bankrolling the deterioration of information ecosystems around the world.

Privacy concerns with Google
Privacy concerns with Google include a wide range of issues and controversies related to collection, use, and sharing of user data across Google products, services, and platforms, including Google Search. Since the mid-2000s, civil liberties organizations and government regulators have criticized and taken action against Google related to Internet privacy issues in its data collection and data retention policies, web tracking practices, cooperation with intelligence agencies and law enforcement agencies, and other activities. These concerns are a frequent theme in criticism of Google.
Google’s new search redirects make links harder to check before you click
Google says its new opaque redirects tackle evolving abuse, but they also prevent users from checking a result’s destination by hovering over it.

Revealed: Google facilitated Russia and China’s censorship requests
An investigation has exposed the tech firm’s cooperation with autocratic regimes to remove unfavourable content

Google further buries search results under AI mode
You might have to do way more scrolling to get to links.

How Chrome tracks you and how to limit it | Proton
Learn how Chrome tracks your activity, what information it sends to Google, and which privacy settings can reduce tracking while you browse.

Google Search's guidance about AI-generated content | Google Search Central Blog | Google for Developers
In this post, we'll share more about how AI-generated content fits into our long-standing approach to show helpful content to people on Search.

Google News Is Boosting Garbage AI-Generated Articles
404 Media reviewed multiple examples of AI rip-offs making their way into Google News. Google said it doesn't focus on how an article was produced—by an AI or human—opening the way for more AI-generated articles.

Un quart des Français visitent les sites d’infos générées par IA recommandés par Google
14 à 16 millions d’internautes français consultent chaque mois l’un des 251 sites d’infos GenAI les plus recommandés par Google et identifiés par Next,…

ICCL report on the scale of Real-Time Bidding data broadcasts in the U.S. and Europe - Irish Council for Civil Liberties
New report: the $127 billion "Real-Time Bidding" online ad industry tracks & shares what people view online, and their locations, 178 Trillion times a year in the U.S. & Europe.

Once-in-a-generation moment to protect U.S. Privacy - Irish Council for Civil Liberties
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is considering new privacy rules. The ICCL & Open Markets & TACD make a major submission showing the need for action

GoogleとFacebookで「自分に関するすべてのデータ」を請求した結果
グーグルやフェイスブックの無料サービスを、私たちは日常的に使っている。だが、その「無料」の対価として、どれほどの個人データを提供しているかを実感する機会はほとんどない。実際にグーグルとフェイスブックへ情報開示を請求してみると、10年以上にわたる検索履歴や位置情報、行動記録までが詳細に保存されていた。ビッグテックは私たちのデータをどのように集め、広告収益へと変えているのか。その実態に迫る。※本稿は、朝日新聞編集委員の五十嵐大介『ルポ・シリコンバレー AIブームと米国社会の断層を歩く』(朝日新聞出版)の一部を抜粋・編集したものです。

I wonder what stage of platform decay Youtube is at where they've gone from A/B testing thumbnails and reclassifying views as the first frame of the video loading to A/B testing actual videos with the same URL?
Dear YouTube!
www.youtube.comIn an interview, Firefox's head says it like it is—Google deprecated its old extension system just to sabotage ad blockers arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/09/mozillas-head…
AI-related: semble.so/profile/aiueo.ooo/collections…
Both Kagi and DuckDuckGo work fine for this, if anyone needs another reason to switch primary search engines
Eli Mallon
Starting to get conspiratorial about how hard it is to Google atproto stuff. Why does "list of public atproto relays" not take me directly to pulsar.feeds.blue? For that matter, why does "pulsar.feeds.blue" not show up on Google whatsoever? There's no robots.txt, it's not that