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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

The Wire will ‘suspend’ its Meta stories until it carries out ‘thorough internal review’: Siddharth Varadarajan

After receiving widespread criticism for its coverage of Meta’s XCheck programme, the Wire has decided to “suspend the stories” until it carries out a “thorough internal review of all material and documents and sources”, the portal’s founding editor Siddharth Varadarajan told Newslaundry.

Newslaundry

Explained: What’s the Wire vs Meta fight all about?

This week, the Wire published a damning report about the content moderation policies of Meta, the social media behemoth that owns Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram. Meta, which has misled about how it functions and moderates content before, replied saying the news report was misleading at best and fabricated at worst.…

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Wire stands by its report on BJP ‘censor privileges’, Meta by its denials

Social media giant Meta has claimed that a report in the Wire – which suggested BJP IT cell chief Amit Malviya was part of the firm’s controversial XCheck programme – was “inaccurate” and appeared to be based on “fabricated” documentation. However, the news portal reported that Meta’s claims were in…

Newslaundry

In monkeypox failures, echoes of COVID

The first monkeypox case in the United States was confirmed in mid-May

Salon

Vaccine and testing delays for monkeypox echo failures in early COVID response

Andy Stone is one of the lucky ones. The New York City resident saw a tweet from a local AIDS activist saying that monkeypox vaccines would be available that day at a clinic in Manhattan. Stone, 35, and his husband booked appointments online right away and got their shots last…

Tribune News Service

Facebook's post-Roe censorship

The move comes just after Meta vowed to cover travel expenses for employees seeking out-of-state abortions

Salon

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Instagram and Facebook begin removing posts offering abortion pills

Social media posts ostensibly aimed to help women living in states where preexisting laws banning abortion suddenly snapped into effect last Friday.

WEKU

Instagram and Facebook remove posts offering abortion pills

Facebook and Instagram have begun promptly removing posts that offer abortion pills to women who may not be able to access them following a Supreme Court decision that stripped away constitutional protections for the procedure

The Independent UK

Mariah Carey sued by writer of another song named ‘All I Want for Christmas Is You’

Mariah Carey is being sued for copyright infringement related to her smash single “All I Want for Christmas Is You” by Andy Stone, the man who wrote another Christmas hit with the same title. But his fight for at least $20 million in damages is likely an uphill battle, according…

Los Angeles Times

Mariah Carey Sued By Random Man For Allegedly Stealing ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’ From Him

All I want for Christmas is $27m in damages, kthnxbai.

Pedestrian.tv

Mariah Carey sued for $20M over ‘All I Want for Christmas Is You’ nearly 30 years later

All he wants is a cool $20 million.

Tribune News Service

Mariah Carey sued for $20m over Christmas smash hit

NEW YORK: Mariah Carey has been sued in the United States for alleged copyright infringement over her global hit 1994 song "All I Want for Christmas Is You," court documents show.

Bangkok Post

Mariah Carey facing lawsuit of up to £16 million over copyright in famous Christmas hit

MARIAH Carey is being sued for £16 million for copyright infringement over her famous no 1 hit single All I Want for Christmas is You.

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Mariah Carey sued for copyright over iconic festive hit All I Want For Christmas Is You

The songstress is being sued for copyright infringement by an artist named Andy Stone - who claims he co-wrote and recorded a song with the same title a couple of years before she released her single

The Independent UK

Mariah Carey sued for £16m after being accused of copying hit song ‘All I Want for Christmas is You’

Andy Stone alleges that the 1994 festive hit was taken from one he wrote five years earlier

The Independent UK

Mariah Carey sued for £16 million over All I Want For Christmas Is You

The singer and her co-writer Walter Afansieff are both named in the legal action, which is being brought by songwriter Andy Stone.

The Independent UK

Mariah Carey faces £16million lawsuit over All I Want For Christmas Is You

The singer and her co-writer Walter Afansieff are both named in the legal action, which is being brought by songwriter Andy Stone.

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Wales Online

Mariah Carey faces £16m lawsuit over All I Want For Christmas Is You

Songwriter Andy Stone claims that he co-wrote the song in 1989 and has never given permission for it to be used

Pedestrian.tv

Leaks Suggest Zuck Was Fully Aware He Was Zucking Us By Blocking Emergency FB Pages Last Year

At the time, Facebook claimed that blocking emergency pages was "inadvertent".

Reuters

Facebook owner Meta briefly blocks hashtags tied to Bucha killings

Facebook owner Meta Platforms briefly restricted hashtags related to civilian deaths in northern Ukraine, where bodies of people shot at close range were found in a town seized back from Russian forces, a company spokesman confirmed on Monday.

Input

Meta and Apple both complied with fake law enforcement data requests

At least some of the data obtained this way has already been used for harassment and financial fraud schemes.

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