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Internal docs show Facebook's weak response after staff flagged human traffickers and drug cartels using its platform for recruitment in developing countries — Employees raised alarms about how the site is used in developing countries, where its user base is already huge and expanding
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Adam Mosseri faces criticism after comparing social media to cars, saying “cars create way more value than they destroy”, even though people die in accidents — - Facebook Instagram chief Adam Mosseri came under a flurry of criticism after comparing the value of social networks to society to that of cars.
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Apple and Google remove jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny's tactical voting app from their stores, bowing to Russian pressure — Alphabet's Google (GOOGL.O) and Apple (AAPL.O) have removed jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny's tactical voting app from their stores, his team said on Friday …
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| Karen Hao / MIT Technology Review: |
Internal Facebook report: Eastern European troll farms reached 140M US users/month before the 2020 election; 75% of these users didn't follow any of their Pages — In the run up to the 2020 election, the most highly contested in US history, Facebook's most popular pages for Christian … | Haroon Siddique / The Guardian: |
Sir Clive Sinclair, the creator of the landmark ZX Spectrum who helped popularize the home computer, dies at age 81 — Creator of the landmark ZX Spectrum and the less commercially successful C5 died after a long illness — Sir Clive Sinclair, the inventor and entrepreneur who was instrumental …
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| Byron Tau / Wall Street Journal: |
How law enforcement's ability to track people via commercially available data blurs the line between investigative due diligence and warrantless surveillance — Agencies' growing use of purchased data without warrants raises new legal questions — In January 2020, a 14-year-old girl …
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Telegram has exploded as a hub for criminals to buy, sell, and share stolen data and hacking tools as it becomes an alternative to the dark web — New research shows growing network of hackers sharing data leaks on encrypted messaging app — Telegram has exploded as a hub for cybercriminals looking … | Reuters: |
Facebook says it will use the same tactics that it uses to remove bot networks to target real-user accounts engaging in tactics like mass reporting — Facebook (FB.O) is taking a more aggressive approach to shut down coordinated groups of real-user accounts engaging in certain harmful activities …
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DHS: American extremists used TikTok in the lead-up to the Jan. 6 riots to recruit new members and share “tactical guidance” for terrorist and criminal activity — Extremists foreign and domestic have used the video platform, DHS says. The app says it has “absolutely no place” for violence and hate.
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Inside the r/aznidentity subreddit, an unofficial hub of “Men's Rights Asians” subculture, which has gained notoriety by harassing Asian women — They became notorious for trying to harass Asian women off the internet. The racial trauma of the past year has only emboldened them.| Kenrick Cai / Forbes: |
Glean, an enterprise search engine startup cofounded by Google and Facebook veterans, emerges from stealth with $55M in funding across two rounds — When Arvind Jain left his cushy tech job to cofound cloud data management company Rubrik, he ran into a familiar problem: search.
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| Bloomberg: |
Digital identity management firm ForgeRock closed up 46% in its NYSE debut for a market cap of ~$2.9B, after raising roughly $275M in its IPO — - Tech consulting, running shoes deliver 45% returns in listings — ForgeRock CEO sees demand increasing further across sectors
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