China seems to be flooding Twitter with porn tweets mentioning places where people are protesting, overwhelming Twitter’s radically reduced anti-propaganda team (Joseph Menn/Washington Post)

Olivia Solon / Bloomberg:
The UK’s ICO plans to ensure porn websites and adult-only services are verifying users’ ages, expanding on its Age Appropriate Design Code and Children’s Code  —  The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office has pledged to crack down on porn sites and other adult-only services to ensure they are taking steps …

Joseph Menn / Washington Post:
Mozilla’s Firefox and Microsoft’s Edge plan to stop trusting new certificates from TrustCor, after a report revealed TrustCor’s ties to a US defense contractor  —  TrustCor Systems is what’s known as a root certifcate authority, a key position in the internet infrastructure that guarantees a website is genuine

Olivia Solon / Bloomberg:
TikTok and Bumble plan to use StopNCII.org’s database of hashes of nude images and videos to block revenge porn; Meta has been using it since last year  —  The UN’s 16 days of activism against gender-based violence is on now, and “revenge porn” is in focus.  But first…  Today’s must-reads:

Yashu Gola / Cointelegraph:
Dogecoin surged by nearly 75% on Saturday after Elon Musk took control of Twitter, its biggest daily gain since April 2021, as it rallied 150% since October 25  —  DOGE price could drop 60% by the end of this year as it reaches its most overbought level since April 2021.  —  5093 Total views

Reuters:
Major advertisers say they suspended marketing campaigns from Twitter because their promoted tweets appeared alongside tweets soliciting or selling child porn  —  Some major advertisers including Dyson, Mazda and chemicals company Ecolab have suspended their marketing campaigns or removed …

TechCrunch:
A look at Unstable Diffusion, which is trying to monetize AI porn generators; the group migrated from a subreddit to Discord, where it has over 45,000 members  —  Of course, it’s an ethical minefield  —  When Stable Diffusion, the text-to-image AI developed by startup Stability AI …