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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Meta's new policies for contractors and staff moderating Facebook and Instagram allow dehumanizing speech, like “a trans person isn't a he or she, it's an it” — “A trans person isn't a he or she, it's an it,” reads a new guideline telling moderators what is now allowed on Facebook and Instagram
More: Washington Post and KFF Health News
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| Sam Biddle / The Intercept: |
A look at Meta's convoluted or contradictory hate speech examples for user content moderators, allowing derogatory remarks about races, nationalities, and more — Meta is now granting its users new freedom to post a wide array of derogatory remarks about races, nationalities, ethnic groups …
More: Electronic Frontier Foundation and New York Times
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| Jason Koebler / 404 Media: |
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X: @zaidjilani and @redsteeze
Forums: r/transgender, r/LGBTnews, r/AnythingGoesNews, r/technology, and Beehaw
| Colby Hall / Mediaite: |
More: The National Pulse, Salon, Gizmodo, and The Hill
| Joseph Cox / Wired: |
A hack of data company Gravy reveals Candy Crush, Tinder, and thousands of other apps are used to collect user location data; app developers may not even know — A hack of location data company Gravy Analytics has revealed which apps are—knowingly or not—being used to collect your information behind the scenes.
More: XDA Developers, Pixel Envy, and Notebookcheck
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Forums: Hacker News, Hacker News, r/Android, and Slashdot
| Kevin Purdy / Ars Technica: |
The Linux Foundation launches an initiative to fund developing Chromium projects in a “neutral space”, with support from Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Opera — But it's really a “neutral space” for funding and support, corralling together some big names with a stake in the future of Chrome's open source roots, Chromium.
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Forums: r/programming, r/browsers, and Ars OpenForum
| Politico: |
In a weird X Spaces chat, Elon Musk and Alice Weidel, a co-chair of the German far-right party AfD, pushed disinformation about Hitler, migrants, war, and more — God! Martians! A “communist” Hitler! It was heavy on oddness and light on policy as the X owner and the AfD co-leader hit it off.
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Elon Musk and his right-wing allies discussed how to destabilize the UK Labour government and remove PM Keir Starmer, beyond Musk's aggressive X posts — Technology billionaire interested in building support for another political party, notably Reform UK
More: BBC, Mediaite, Axios, Financial Times, GB News, Social Media Today, Reuters, Semafor, Deccan Herald, The i Paper, Moneycontrol, Business Standard, Daily Express, Republic World, The Indian Express, Sky News, The Times, Daily Express, Telegraph, The Irish Times, CBS Chicago on YouTube, Mediaite, The Independent, New York Times, The US Sun, Fortune, The Mirror, and Financial Times
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Forums: r/politics, r/LabourUK, and r/unitedkingdom
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Court docs: Mark Zuckerberg approved the Meta team that trains AI Llama models to use data from LibGen, a “links aggregator” to pirated, copyrighted material — Counsel for plaintiffs in a copyright lawsuit filed against Meta allege that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave the green light …
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Forums: r/technews, r/technology, r/libgen, r/ABoringDystopia, r/law, r/technology, and Slashdot
| Automattic: |
Automattic plans to cut its WordPress contributions to ~45 hours per week “due to the lawsuits from WP Engine”, focusing mostly on security and critical updates — Automattic has always been deeply committed to the success of WordPress, dedicating significant resources and talent to its development for almost two decades.
More: TechCrunch and WinBuzzer
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| Jaiveer Singh Shekhawat / Reuters: |
Frank McCourt's Project Liberty says it made a formal bid to ByteDance to acquire TikTok's US assets, aiming to keep the app alive without its current algorithm — Entrepreneur and former Los Angeles Dodgers owner Frank McCourt's Project Liberty and its consortium of partners in The People's Bid … | Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Disney, Fox, and WBD say they have agreed to discontinue their Venu Sports streaming joint venture and will focus on existing products and distribution channels — The sports-focused streaming service will not move forward, the companies said Friday. — Venu is dead.
More: 9to5Mac, The Verge, ESPN Press Room U.S., IndieWire, New York Post, Wall Street Journal, CNN, Variety, Awful Announcing, The TV Answer Man!, Barron's Online, Deadline, USA Today, DeepNewz, Sports Media Watch, TVLine, Sportico, and Radio & Television …
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
X says it is rolling out labels for parody or satire accounts to distinguish them and “increase transparency”; accounts have to apply the labels themselves — X said today that it will now label parody or satire profiles to differentiate them from other accounts.
More: Engadget, PCMag, Mashable, and Gamereactor UK
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
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