As a global election season widely expected to be mired in misinformation and falsehoods fast approaches, the big US-based tech platforms are walking back policies meant to curb them, stoking alarm."Social media companies aren't ready for the 2024 election tsunami," the watchdog Global Coalition for Tech Justice said in a report this month.
TikTok will now let users label posts that have been enhanced by AI in any way. The company is also working on tools that automatically detect AI-generated posts.
X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, will allow political ads heading into the 2024 election cycle for the first time since 2019, the company announced Tuesday. The update is the latest change, including that made to the brand name, made since billionaire Elon Musk bought the platform for $44 billion in October. While allowing…