On January 31, 2025 (KST), JYP Entertainment (JYPE)’s new boy group KickFlip held a 41-minute long YouTube live from their practice room. The livestream started off like all idol livestreams do, with the members greeting their fans and interacting with fan comments. KickFlip on “Idol Radio” | @idolradiokorea/X It was toward the end of the livestream when KickFlip members […]
Telegram reportedly ‘inundated’ with illegal and extremist activity
A New York Times analysis of more than 3.2 million Telegram messages from 16,000 channels found that the messaging platform has been “inundated” with illegal and extremist activity. Specifically, The Times found 1,500 channels operated by white supremacists, two dozen channels selling weapons, and at least 22 channels where MDMA, cocaine, heroin and other drugs were […]
Google’s Jigsaw open sources Altitude to help online platforms weed out extremist content
Google’s incubator subsidiary Jigsaw has open sourced a counterterrorism tool designed to help smaller companies address extremist content shared through their online platforms. While most of the big tech companies, including Meta, X and Google itself, are well-versed in moderating content to weed out illegal or toxic content, the resources required to do this are […]