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ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>AFP: Albania to shut down TikTok in coming days. “Albanian authorities said Thursday they were moving to shut down TikTok in the coming days, following through on a ban announced in December.”</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/23/afp-albania-to-shut-down-tiktok-in-coming-days-2/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/23/afp-albania-to-shut-down-tiktok-in-coming-days-2/</a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>Gizmodo: Reddit Accused of Cracking Down on Luigi Mangione Content. “Slate recently noted that some forums on Reddit had been getting censored for their discussion of the accused killer. A moderator for one long-running subreddit, /r/popculture, was suspended by the platform after failing to quell the ongoing discussion of Mangione. The action followed an unusual warning from the site’s […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/17/gizmodo-reddit-accused-of-cracking-down-on-luigi-mangione-content/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/17/gizmodo-reddit-accused-of-cracking-down-on-luigi-mangione-content/</a></p>
Calishat<p><a href="https://researchbuzz.masto.host/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> <a href="https://researchbuzz.masto.host/tags/YouTube" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>YouTube</span></a> <a href="https://researchbuzz.masto.host/tags/gambling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gambling</span></a> <a href="https://researchbuzz.masto.host/tags/SportsBetting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SportsBetting</span></a> <a href="https://researchbuzz.masto.host/tags/BannedContent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BannedContent</span></a> </p><p>'YouTube will only allow references to online gambling sites that “meet local requirements,” which suggests some wiggle room. It also excludes videos that show online sports betting or in-person gambling, so all the sponsorships for ESPN BET that pervade sports videos will remain unscathed; YouTube is really targeting the shadier online slot machine websites. '</p><p><a href="https://gizmodo.com/youtube-bans-creators-from-talking-about-some-gambling-sites-2000572042" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">gizmodo.com/youtube-bans-creat</span><span class="invisible">ors-from-talking-about-some-gambling-sites-2000572042</span></a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>Pioneer Press: Minnesota bill would ban using AI to create sexually explicit images of real people. “A bipartisan group of Minnesota state senators is pushing for more restrictions on convincing computer-generated sexually explicit images of real people. Under a new bill, companies that provide artificial intelligence-generated ‘deepfakes,’ or photorealistic videos or images of people, would […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/26/pioneer-press-minnesota-bill-would-ban-using-ai-to-create-sexually-explicit-images-of-real-people/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/26/pioneer-press-minnesota-bill-would-ban-using-ai-to-create-sexually-explicit-images-of-real-people/</a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>Reuters: New downloads of DeepSeek suspended in South Korea, data protection agency says . “South Korea’s data protection authority on Monday said new downloads of the Chinese AI app DeepSeek had been suspended in the country after DeepSeek acknowledged failing to take into account some of the agency’s rules on protecting personal data.”</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/18/reuters-new-downloads-of-deepseek-suspended-in-south-korea-data-protection-agency-says/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/18/reuters-new-downloads-of-deepseek-suspended-in-south-korea-data-protection-agency-says/</a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>Ars Technica: X is reportedly blocking links to secure Signal contact pages. “X, the social platform formerly known as Twitter, is seemingly blocking links to Signal, the encrypted messaging platform, according to journalist Matt Binder and other firsthand accounts.”</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/18/ars-technica-x-is-reportedly-blocking-links-to-secure-signal-contact-pages/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/18/ars-technica-x-is-reportedly-blocking-links-to-secure-signal-contact-pages/</a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>Mashable: Instagram blocked LGBTQ+ content by accident, Meta claims. “Instagram recently blocked teen users from viewing the results for numerous LGBTQ+ terms by accident, according to a spokesperson for Meta, the platform’s parent company. The restrictions were reported by User Mag, which found that teen users searching for content related to dozens of hashtags including <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://rbfirehose.com/tag/lesbian/" target="_blank">#lesbian</a>, <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://rbfirehose.com/tag/bisexual/" target="_blank">#bisexual</a>, […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/01/08/mashable-instagram-blocked-lgbtq-content-by-accident-meta-claims/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/01/08/mashable-instagram-blocked-lgbtq-content-by-accident-meta-claims/</a></p>