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TikTok’s search engine repeatedly delivers misinformation to its majority-young user base, report says

By Emma Tucker, CNN When a TikTok user searches the social media app for information on top news stories, ranging from Covid-19 vaccines to school shootings, nearly 20% of the videos presented as search results contain misinformation, according to a research report published Wednesday. Researchers at NewsGuard, a journalism and technology tool that tracks online

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The 40-year evolution from :-) to 😂

By Jennifer Korn, CNN Business At 11:44 a.m. on September 19, 1982, Scott Fahlman made internet history by stitching together a colon, a hyphen and a close parenthesis. Fahlman, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University, posted “: – )” on the school’s online bulletin board, a primitive kind of social network accessible only

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Federal appeals court upholds controversial Texas social media law restricting content moderation

By Brian Fung, CNN Business A federal appeals court on Friday upheld a controversial Texas law that restricts the ability of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to moderate content on their platforms, setting up a potential Supreme Court showdown while also renewing uncertainties about how tech platforms may operate in the state in the future. The

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