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Amazon customers could be paid £900m compensation following lawsuit

The company is accused of carrying out anti-competitive practices by pointing customers towards its own products or to those which it handles the delivery for

Wales Online

Facebook adds way to remove misinformation from groups

San Francisco (AFP) - Facebook on Thursday added a method for people running groups to automatically sift out claims that have been debunked since being posted.

AFP

Instagram to Make it Easier to Avoid Trolls

Instagram will enhance features that help users block the accounts of abusers and trolls on the social media platform, the Meta Platforms-owned company said on Thursday. Users will now be able to block all existing accounts of a person, expanding a feature launched last year that only allowed the blocking…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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Corporate spending in state politics and elections can affect everything from your wallet to your health

Political spending by corporations is big business.

The Conversation

Apple Supplier Says Smartphone Market May Slump Into Next Year, Meta Loses Veteran Exec Behind Instagram and WhatsApp Acquisitions, Voyager Digital Seeks Creditors' Vote For Sale To FTX: Top Stories Thursday, Oct. 20

Bloomberg YouTube Named Google Play Executive As New Gaming Head

Benzinga

‘Strenghtened’ Online Safety Bill to return to Parliament imminently

The Culture Secretary committed to strengthening the child protection aspect of the Bill which was put on hold during the Tory leadership race.

The Independent UK

Remote worker receives surprise meeting invitation from manager while secretly on plane: ‘Internet is down’

‘Put a background filter on,’ one viewer suggested

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Amazon customers could be in line for £900million as experts claim firm hid cheap deals

Lawyers say tens of millions of Amazon shoppers could get a share of £900million from Amazon, which it claims hid bargains on its website and app - but the retailer wants to fight it

Daily Mirror

Antony Blinken’s Silicon Valley visit underscores US cybersecurity concerns

Secretary of state met tech executives to discuss national security even as US public is increasingly skeptical of industry

The Guardian - US

TikTok cracks down on minors and abusive content in livestreams

Social media companies appear ready to sacrifice user numbers from under-18s in favour of a better public image

Evening Standard

Train derails in Carlisle as carriages smash off track - sparking days of travel chaos

Carriages on a freight train carrying cement derailed last night, closing a busy line in the North to all services amid warnings they may not reopen for several days to come

Daily Mirror

Expert take: Why was the Wire compelled to pull down its Meta stories?

After insisting for over a week that its reporting supposedly exposing how Meta allowed BJP leaders to censor content on its platforms was solid, the Wire on Tuesday pulled down the work pending a “thorough internal review of all material and documents and sources”.

Newslaundry

Jack Dorsey's New Decentralized Social Protocol: What Twitter Could Have Been?

Jack Dorsey's new social protocol aims to be what Twitter isn't, bringing blockchain benefits to social media.

Investors Business Daily

Darwin study finds badly injured e-scooter users are adding to the public health system's workload

Injured and often intoxicated e-scooter users are adding to the Northern Territory public health system's workload and costing hundreds of thousands of dollars each year, medical researchers say.

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The Street

Gates Calls for Unified Front on a Critical Issue

Microsoft Co-Founder Bill Gates says the world needs to achieve more, and faster, to avoid disaster on a global matter.

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Here's why you are seeing ads everywhere

Uber's move to sell ads to show customers is the latest effort to fill every moment of screen attention with paid messages.

Daily Mirror

Vladimir Putin declares martial law in Ukraine allowing him to force civilians into army

The decree states that the Kremlin has the power to carry out mobilization measures, as well as the "authority to implement measures to meet the needs of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation"

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Asharq Al-Awsat

ASOS Warns on Outlook as Consumers Feel Inflation Pain

British online fashion retailer ASOS said it needed to rebuild its once-successful business model after it reported an 89% drop in 2021-22 profit and forecast a loss in the first half, due to a rapidly deflating economy. The group, whose shares have fallen 80% this year, made adjusted profit before…

Salon

Experts grade social media on misinfo

Social media networks crack down — but the companies vary in their approaches and effectiveness

Bangkok Post

Amazon Web Services announces plans to open data centres in Thailand

Mr. Supattanapong Punmeechaow, deputy prime minister of Thailand, Mr. Narit Therdsteerasukdi, secretary general of the Thailand Board of Investment and other senior Thai officials and executives attended in Bangkok on 18 October 2022, the announcement by Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company, of plans to open an Infrastructure…

Daily Record

Jobs should be protected from whim of computers amid fast food courier sackings

Record View says we should not be welcoming all technologies into our lives with open arms.

The Conversation

Millions of users are flocking to the BeReal app – but it may pose free speech issues

Recently, when scrolling through TikTok – purely for research purposes of course – we paused on a video “spilling the tea” (that means sharing the goss) on the hottest new social media app, BeReal.

The Street

Walmart Wants to Take on TikTok, Instagram

The mega-retail chain is getting into the world of content creation thanks to a new program to shake up its marketing.

Crikey

Fake news! Wire-Meta row shakes Indian media

A win for Meta after independent Indian news outlet The Wire pulls reports on the tech giant’s XCheck program over authenticity doubts.

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