Instagram suppresses Palestinians; Don’t use AI to write your closing argument in court!; Elon Musk gets fined; Using VR to help people who hoard — NEWS ROUNDUP

Last week, we looked at how Twitter is creating more chaos in the Israel / Palestine conflict. Now, a look into how things are going on Instagram (not great!): https://www.404media.co/instagram-palestinian-arabic-bio-translation/

Why I’m not expecting my friends to make social media posts about Israel: https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/israel-hamas-conflict-social-media-pressure-rcna119596

A far-right Twitter troll was sentenced to seven months in prison for his 2016 election tweets: https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/19/23923733/douglass-mackey-twitter-troll-2016-election-voting-conspiracy

Former Fugees rapper Pras is in a whole lot of very serious legal trouble. So why did his legal team use his trial to boost their AI platform? https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/convicted-fugees-rapper-pras-michels-lawyer-used-ai-draft-bungled-clos-rcna120992

Elon Musk talked a big game on keeping child exploitation off Twitter…now he’s being fined for doing such a bad job of it: https://apnews.com/article/twitter-esafety-fine-child-sexual-exploitation-feb129047a29eca1f950e815484f08b2

VR might help people with hoarding disorder: https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2023/10/vr-hoarding-disorder.html

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