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Cloudflare Says Its Online Security Services Won't Be Canceled Based on a Site's Ideology

"Just as the telephone company doesn't terminate your line if you say awful, racist, bigoted things, we have concluded ... that turning off security services because we think what you publish is despicable is the wrong policy. To be clear, just because we did it in a limited set of…

Reason

Facebook contractor accused of sacking office cleaner over protests

Meta urged to act after sacking of Guillermo Camacho, union leader who protested against working conditions at London offices

The Guardian - UK

Cloudflare defends providing security services to trans trolling website Kiwi Farms

Company says it regrets past action against far-right websites because of subsequent calls to move similarly against human rights sites

The Guardian - AU

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Instagram reminds users of exhausting feed curation tools

The company says it's important that we "feel good" about the time we spend on Instagram.

Input

Meta takes action against 2.7 crore posts on Facebook, Instagram in India

The company took action against 2.5 crore posts on Facebook and 20 lakh posts on Instagram to comply with Information Technology Rules, 2021.

The Hindu

First-of-its-kind legislation will keep California’s children safer while online

Bill approved Monday will require companies to install guardrails for those under age 18 and use higher privacy settings

The Guardian - US

Twitter rolls out 'more intimate' tool to every user

The Twitter Circle feature has been in testing among select users since May

Wales Online

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Twitter down for thousands of UK users amid outage mostly affecting browsers

Twitter going down late on Monday evening has affected more than 10,000 people according to website monitor Downdetector which recorded more than 10,000 outages just before 11pm

Wales Online

Twitter down as millions of social media users left unable to use site

Most users attempting to access Twitter on a desktop as opposed to on the mobile app are reporting issues

Daily Mirror

'Tape or chewing gum:' Twitter's lapses echo worldwide

Twitter at its best is a tool to get a message out quickly, efficiently and directly, whether you're an activist or a local fire department

The Independent UK

Facebook parent settles suit in Cambridge Analytica scandal

Facebook’s corporate parent has reached a tentative settlement in a lawsuit alleging the world’s largest social network service allowed millions of its users’ personal information to be fed to Cambridge Analytica, a firm that supported Donald Trump’s victorious presidential campaign in 2016

The Independent UK

Social Media: Instagram rolls out update to change default content settings for teens

Photo and video sharing platform Instagram has announced that they are rolling out a feature that defaults accounts for new users under 16 years old to 'less', the most restrictive setting for Sensitive Content Control. Read more on Dynamite News:

Dynamite News

Google will label which health clinics provide abortions

Google will start labeling which health clinics or hospitals provide abortions when users search for reproductive care online or in maps, the California-based company announced this week.

Los Angeles Times

Twitter and Meta took down pro-US propaganda campaign abroad, report says

The BBC reported that Twitter had identified the US and England as the possible country where the accounts had originated

The Independent UK

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Microsoft Sues Mom Of Two Over Naming Her Business

A British woman is locked in a David versus Goliath trademark battle with Microsoft over the name of her firm called Word Window, which helps children learn to read.

Los Angeles Times

Commentary: Facebook helped police with an abortion investigation in Nebraska. That’s troubling news everywhere

After reports revealed this month that Facebook handed over to law enforcement messages between a Nebraska teenager and her mother about the teen’s pregnancy loss, the company released a statement claiming ignorance about the nature of the investigation. “The warrants did not mention abortion at all. Court documents indicate that…

Wales Online

Instagram introduces safety controls to limit ‘sensitive content’ shown to younger users

The change will also see existing users under 16 prompted to update their own account to bring it in line with this new setting

The Independent UK

Facebook parent culls large Proud Boys network from sites

Facebook parent Meta says it has removed a network of accounts linked to the Proud Boys, a far-right extremist group it banned in 2018

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The Independent UK

Google accused of ‘airbrushing’ impact of flights after changing its climate calculator

The search engine giant is accused of having ‘airbrushed’ the impact of plane travel from its pages

Al Jazeera

Meta, Twitter bust ‘deceptive’ pro-US influence campaign: report

Fake accounts promoted pro-Western narratives while trying to discredit China, Russia and Iran, researchers say.

Bangkok Post

Who'll establish ethical norms for the metaverse?

The "metaverse" isn't here yet, and when it arrives it will not be a single domain controlled by any one company. Facebook wanted to create that impression when it changed its name to Meta, but its rebranding coincided with major investments by Microsoft and Roblox.

Input

Snap's Illinois privacy lawsuit settlement could net residents some cash

The lawsuit alleges that Snapchat's filters violated Illinois' Biometric Information Privacy Act.

Liverpool Echo

Facebook responds to 'weird glitch' which saw users flooded with celebrity spam

On Wednesday morning, Facebook users around the world began reporting what some deemed "spam" messages

Daily Record

Mum slammed for 'Photoshopping hourglass figure' on eight-year-old daughter

A woman's Facebook post about sending her children back to school has provoked widespread outrage after Reddit users pointed out she appeared to have digitally edited her daughter's body.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Privacy Complaint Targets Google over Unsolicited Ad Emails

Google has breached a European Union court ruling by sending unsolicited advertising emails directly to the inbox of Gmail users, Austrian advocacy group noyb.eu said on Wednesday in a complaint filed with France's data protection watchdog. The Alphabet unit, whose revenues mainly come from online advertising, should ask Gmail users…

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