Sat 22 January 2022: The mother of an 11-year-old girl who committed suicide last year has filed a lawsuit against Facebook parent company Meta and social media company Snap, alleging that they are to blame for her daughter’s death. Tammy Rodriguez accuses the two companies, Meta-owned Instagram and Snap-owned messaging app Snapchat, of making her […]
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Fri 21 January 2022: In a review of its 2021 enforcement actions, Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta said on Thursday that it deactivated more than 130 accounts from the two platforms during the months of December for suspected coordinated inauthentic behavior. We removed eight Facebook accounts and 126 Instagram accounts from Iran that primarily […]
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Fri 21 January 2022: Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink is now hiring a clinical trial director, an indication that the company’s longstanding goal of implanting chips in human brains is coming closer. The trial director position would oversee the startup’s long-promised human trials of its medical device, according to the listing. Neuralink’s brain implant — which […]
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Thu 20 January 2022: Facebook opponents are urging the company to share the results of a human rights impact assessment it commissioned in 2020 to look into hate speech on its platforms in India. The social network firm, now known as Meta, is under increased criticism for its management of abuses on its services, particularly […]
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Wed 19 January 2022: Microsoft is buying the gaming company Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion, gaining access to blockbuster games like “Call of Duty” and ”Candy Crush.” The boards of microsoft and Activision Blizzard have agreed to the software giant purchasing the major computer games company, a deal that would create the third largest gaming […]
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Mon 17 January 2022: According to The Verge, Apple has implemented a new policy requiring employees to produce confirmation of receiving the Covid booster dose. “Due to waning efficacy of the primary series of COVID-19 vaccines and the emergence of highly transmissible variants such as Omicron, a booster shot is now part of staying up […]
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Sat 15 January 2022: Alphabet Inc’s Google is temporarily mandating weekly COVID-19 tests for any person entering Google offices or facilities in the United States, CNBC reported on Friday, citing a memo obtained by the news channel. Anyone who comes into a Google’s U.S. work sites will require a negative test, be required to report […]
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Fri 14 January 2022: Facebook is facing a $3.2 billion class-action lawsuit in the United Kingdom for allegedly misusing user data. It has been accused of abusing its market dominance by gaining access to roughly 44 million consumers’ personal information. Liza Lovdahl Gormsen, a senior adviser at the Financial Conduct Authority in the United Kingdom, […]
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Thu 13 January 2022: In a first for the African continent, South Africa is expected to launch three maritime-focussed nanosatellites into orbit on Thursday afternoon. The three nanosatellites – the first to be entirely developed on the African continent – will be launched from Cape Canaveral in the United States at about 5.25pm. The three […]
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Thu 13 January 2022: Over 80 fact-checking organizations from around the world have urged YouTube to do more to combat disinformation and prevent its online video platform from being “weaponized by unscrupulous actors.” In an open letter to YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, organizations as diverse as Africa Check in Kenya and Politifact and the Washington […]
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