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The Foundation’s report, in collaboration with Bright Data, found that platforms, despite restricting hashtag searches for dangerous content, see personalized AI recommender systems still amplifying harmful content after viewing. 

Bright Data was awarded the Data for Good title, for the work done by The Bright Initiative, in Snowflake’s prestigious Data Drivers Award 2024.

A federal judge in California dismissed a lawsuit filed by Elon Musk’s X against Israel’s Bright Data, in a case that involved the scraping of data.

Predatech’s British Data Awards, names Bright Data and The Bright Initiative the 2024 Data for Good winners.

Social media companies are still pushing “harmful content to literally millions of young people”, Ian Russell, the father of Molly Russell, has said.

CyberWell has launched what it describes as the “world’s first” live and open database of antisemitic content generated across Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube.

Understanding data and making it a positive force in society will be the focus of a virtual workshop for Queen Mary University of London students run by Bright Data, an industry-leading web data platform, as part of its Bright Initiative.