Social media's financial crime blind spot

IT'S TUESDAY, AND THIS IS DIGITAL POLITICS. I'm Mark Scott, and Oct 19 was my first day at the Christchurch Call Foundation, an organization set up in the wake of the 2019 terrorist attack to combat violent extremist content online. I'm overseeing this project that looks at algorithmic and AI harms. It brings together my interests of data access, research and platform design.

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— Financial scams that target children are widely accessible across major social media platforms despite policymakers' focus on these online harms.

— The Western world's digital antitrust enforcers are not equipped to tackle the growing market concentration within the AI infrastructure stack.

— Women and men consume news differently across social media.

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