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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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Internal docs show how antivax activists flooded vaccine content on Facebook with negative comments, despite Zuckerberg's push to promote COVID-19 vaccines — Company documents show antivaccine activists undermined the CEO's ambition to support the rollout by flooding the site …
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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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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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| 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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| Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
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 …
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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 … | Politico: |
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.| Andrea Park / FierceBiotech: |
Rune Labs, whose software aggregates brain data from multiple sources into an integrated environment, raises $22.8M Series A led by Eclipse Ventures — Deciphering the inner workings of the brain to get to the root of neurological conditions like Parkinson's disease and multiple sclerosis … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Roboflow, which provides tools for developers to build computer vision models, raises $20M Series A led by Craft Ventures — The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility. Register now! — Roboflow, a Des Moines …
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