Category: Tech

Thu 23 September 2021: On Sept. 30, Facebook’s global head of safety, Antigone Davis, will appear before the Senate Commerce subcommittee on consumer protection. The Washington Post reported the news earlier Thursday. The Wall Street Journal published a series of articles about Facebook’s internal research and deliberations about human traffickers using the platform, special treatment […]

Fri 24 September 2021: Prosecutors say two Catholic monks in southeastern France set fire to 5G mobile network masts in order to call attention to the new technology’s claimed health risks. The monks from an ultra-conservative Capuchin monastery in the Rhone region confessed to authorities that they set out last week in the dead of […]

Wed 22 September 2021: Lithuania’s Defense Ministry recommended that consumers avoid buying Chinese mobile phones and advised people to throw away the ones they have now after a government report found the devices had built-in censorship capabilities. Flagship phones sold in Europe by China’s smartphone giant Xiaomi Corp have a built-in ability to detect and censor terms […]

Sun 19 September 2021: Facebook Inc. lambasted a series of Wall Street Journal articles on its platform on Saturday, calling them “deliberate mischaracterizations” that “conferred egregiously incorrect motives to Facebook’s leadership and staff.” According to the Wall Street Journal, despite Facebook researchers discovered “the platform’s ill effects,” the firm neglected to solve them, citing a […]