The head of Facebook, and his Google and Twitter counterparts, could face a rough ride at the scene of the insurrectionists’ crime Mark Zuckerberg, the head of Facebook, could be in for a rough ride on Thursday when he testifies to Congress for the first time about the 6 January insurrection at the Capitol in …
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Latest top-spec handset has Hasselblad-branded camera, great screen and long battery life OnePlus’s latest 9 Pro Android phone takes the firm’s winning formula of slick speed and adds knowhow from the Swedish renowned camera manufacturer Hasselblad to try to improve things in the photography department. The £829 phone tops the Chinese brand’s line for 2021 …
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New lawsuit filed by Reporters without Borders says platform allows ‘disinformation and hate speech to flourish on its network’ Facebook has failed to live up to its promises of creating a “safe” and “error-free” online environment, according to a new lawsuit filed by the press freedom not-for-profit Reporters without Borders. Continue reading… New lawsuit filed …
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Exclusive: public figures considered to be permissible targets for otherwise-banned abuse, leaked moderator guidelines show Facebook’s bullying and harassment policy explicitly allows for “public figures” to be targeted in ways otherwise banned on the site, including “calls for [their] death”, according to a tranche of internal moderator guidelines leaked to the Guardian. Public figures are …
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Exclusive: users are allowed to praise mass killers and ‘violent non-state actors’ in certain situations Facebook users are permitted to praise mass murderers and “violent non-state actors” in certain situations, according to internal guidelines that underline how the tech corporation is striving to operate in repressive regimes. The leak also reveals that Facebook maintains a …
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The 300-page document for moderators defines which phrases are ethically unacceptable They run to more than 300 pages, envisaging and exemplifying some of the most borderline and ethically challenging uses of the world’s biggest social network by its 2.8 billion monthly users. Secret Facebook guidelines seen by the Guardian show how the company controls its …
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Owner will be able to take virtual reality tour of ‘Mars house’, their new living quarters In what might be most easily understood as the most expensive game of the Sims to ever be played, a “digital home” set within a Mars-like landscape has sold for $500,000 (£360,000) or 288 Ether, a cryptocurrency, in the …
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Comedians went virtual, Ai Weiwei went to Portugal – and Bake Off pledged the show would go on. In the first of a two-part series, cultural figures look back on a year that shook their industry ‘I’m optimistic – hell, yeah’: Part 2 of culture’s year of Covid Continue reading… Comedians went virtual, Ai Weiwei …
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This year non-fungible tokens burst into the mainstream after several digital images and animations sold for absurd amounts – so I entered the world of NFTs myself For years, I’ve kept an ever-growing record of interesting pictures I discover online in a folder entitled Images on my desktop: a fox sauntering through an art gallery; …
Can anyone become an NFT collector? I tried it to find out Read More »
Federal court to decide whether Fortnite maker’s case can be heard while legal action under way in US Apple has argued that Epic Games’ case against the tech giant’s in-app purchase system is not altruistically trying to secure a better deal for Australian customers and app developers in the app store, but the “self-serving” act …
