Israel-Hamas fake news thrives on poorly regulated online platforms Claims on X and Telegram include downplaying 7 October Hamas attack and allegations Palestinians are faking scenes of suffering The Guardian - UK · Nov 11, 2023
Meta thinks AI labels on Facebook and Instagram can stop people being fooled by political deepfakes The social media company is threatening to remove ads that don’t contain adequate disclosures Evening Standard · Nov 10, 2023
Advance Australia doubled donations to raise nearly $5m ahead of voice to parliament referendum Documents lodged with corporate regulator also show the rightwing advocacy group spent $3.4m campaigning against Indigenous voice proposal The Guardian - AU · Nov 9, 2023
The nuclear industry's dream of small modular reactors hits a snag It's a big setback for the nuclear industry's dream of small modular reactors. But NuScale insists it learned a lot over the last 10 years it spent developing the Carbon Free Power Project. Fortune · Nov 9, 2023
Judge Moves Forward With Trump Fraud Case With Cover From Facebook Fact Checker An attorney accused the presiding Judge Arthur Engoron of undervaluing the Trump properties in current fraud case. Zenger · Nov 9, 2023
He Was Strip-Searched and Jailed for Criticizing Cops. Now He's Fighting Back in Court. In an apparent case of retaliation by humiliation, Jerry Rogers Jr. was arrested for speaking out about a stalled murder investigation. Reason · Nov 9, 2023
41 US states are suing Meta for getting teens hooked on social media. Here’s what to expect next In the United States, 41 states have filed lawsuits against Meta for allegedly driving social media addiction in its young users (under the age of 18), amid growing concerns about the negative effects of platforms. The Conversation · Nov 9, 2023
Sextortion Against Young People Is On The Rise W/ Image-Based Abuse Spiking By 117% "It’s not uncommon for it to be a time period of only 20 to 30 minutes between the first contact, images being sent and then demands being made.” Pedestrian.tv · Nov 9, 2023
Morning Mail: Optus faces outage fallout, sharehouses surge in housing crisis, Ivanka Trump testifies The network outage is the latest setback for the telco after last year’s huge data breach, while cost of living crisis is causing a change in living arrangements The Guardian - AU · Nov 8, 2023
Half of Australia left without internet or phone as Optus crashes 10 million people are cut off, train systems fall down and businesses cannot make sales in outage lasting hours The Guardian - UK · Nov 8, 2023
Mirror and Express owner to cut about 450 jobs – 10% of workforce Reach staff react with furious comments to CEO over plan to reduce costs by up to 6% in 2024 The Guardian - UK · Nov 8, 2023
Optus network outage may have been caused by same issue that brought Facebook down in 2021 Australian IT company says ‘configuration issue’ may have been behind nationwide outage The Guardian - AU · Nov 8, 2023
2023 On Track To Be Hottest Year On Record, Which My Uncle On Facebook Says Is Total Coincidence Scientists from the Copernicus Climate Change Service have declared that 2023 is on track to be the hottest year on record. Pedestrian.tv · Nov 8, 2023
RMIT’s fact check reinstated by Facebook two months after suspension over News Corp voice complaints Exclusive: Meta suspended RMIT FactLab from Facebook’s fact-checking program after no campaigners claimed it was biased The Guardian - AU · Nov 8, 2023
WEKU · Nov 7, 2023 Meta failed to address harm to teens, whistleblower testifies as senators vow action Former engineer Arturo Bejar says he repeatedly raised the alarm to company execs about Instagram's harm to teens and they failed to act. Senators vow to pass a social media law this year.
Creative Bloq · Nov 7, 2023 Why I'm glad the Corporate Memphis art style is dead It represents everyone and speaks to no one.
The Independent UK · Nov 7, 2023 Former Meta engineering leader to testify before Congress on Instagram's harms to teens On the same day whistleblower Frances Haugen was testifying before Congress about the harms of Facebook and Instagram to children in the fall of 2021, Arturo Bejar, then a contractor at the social media giant, sent an email to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg about the same topic
The Texas Tribune · Nov 7, 2023 Jill Dutton, Brent Money advance to runoff for Texas House special election Five Republicans and one Democrat were on the ballot for the ruby-red seat, but most of the drama has focused on two GOP candidates, Dutton and Money.
USA Today Sports Media Group · Nov 7, 2023 UFC Fight Night 231 reactions: Winning and losing fighters on social media UFC Fight Night 231 winners and losers react on social media outlets such as X, Instagram and Facebook.
The Conversation · Nov 6, 2023 As Ohio and other states decide on abortion, anti-abortion activists look to rebrand themselves as not religious Abortion has become an increasingly polarized, political issue in the United States since 2022, when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, which guaranteed the constitutional right to an abortion. This decision threw the question of abortion rights back to states.
WEKU · Nov 5, 2023 A Philippine radio anchor was shot and killed while on a Facebook livestream Juan Jumalon was the 199th journalist to be killed in the country since 1986, when an uprising toppled dictator Ferdinand Marcos, the current president's father.
The Independent UK · Nov 5, 2023 A Philippine radio anchor is fatally shot while on Facebook livestream watched by followers A radio anchor has been fatally shot by a man inside his southern Philippine station in a brazen attack that was witnessed by people watching the program live on Facebook
Total Film · Nov 3, 2023 The 32 most iconic movie posters Hand-drawn illustrations, iconic stills, and clever taglines
Reason · Nov 3, 2023 These Public Officials Blocked Critics on Social Media. Was That Constitutional? The Supreme Court considers whether and when banishing irksome constituents violates the First Amendment.