Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos weigh in on the latest online trust and safety news and developments:
The attention grabbing 404 Media headline “Has Facebook Stopped Trying?” could be on to something. Alex discusses significant disinvestment in trust and safety at Facebook with lots of junk spreading (such as AI-generated Shrimp Jesus) and a sextortion challenge. – Jason Koebler/ 404 MediaYouTube announced it is testing a feature for users to add notes under videos with context or fact checks. – YouTubeThe U.S. military ran a covert anti-vaccine influence operation on social media intended to discredit China’s COVID vaccine in the