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'Grave Step Backwards': Meta Shuts Monitoring Tool In Election Year

A digital tool considered vital in tracking viral falsehoods, CrowdTangle will be decommissioned by Facebook owner Meta in a major election year, a move researchers fear will disrupt efforts to detect an expected firehose of political misinformation.

International Business Times

‘Humour is powerful’: Cartoons take on Uganda’s repressive government

Huge potholes and rundown hospitals are actually getting fixed – thanks to online satirical campaigns

Al Jazeera

Cleaners, builders, Primark shoppers: ads for London mayor hopeful Susan Hall reveal Tories’ targets

Analysis shows content is aimed at working-class over-50s, and plays on fears of crime, stirs anger and pushes conspiracy theories

The Guardian - UK

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FBI Questioned Woman Over Social Media Posts, Sparking Controversy

FBI questioning of an Oklahoma woman over social media posts raises concerns about free speech and surveillance practices.

Top News

Conjoined twins Abby and Brittany Hensel hit out at 'hate' after wedding

Twins married US Army veteran Josh Bowling in 2021

Evening Standard

Meta’s oversight board urges Facebook, Instagram to lift ban on ‘shaheed’

The advisory board has told Meta the ban on the word, meaning ‘martyr’, restricts free expression and is unnecessary.

Al Jazeera

Climate change is delaying world clocks' need for a 'negative leap second'

We're nearing a year when a negative leap second could be needed to shave time — an unprecedented step that would have unpredictable effects, a new study says.

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Warnings TikTok could usher in a 'digital cold war'

The TikTok debate has fuelled a global furore over privacy, data collection and state influence that threatens to divide the internet down geopolitical lines.

AAP

Concerns over Meta's plan to take news out of News Feed

Social media users, as well as small and specialised news outlets, could be the big losers from Meta's plan to remove more news from Facebook, experts say.

AAP

FBI Agent Says He Hassles People 'Every Day, All Day Long' Over Facebook Posts

"It's just an effort to keep everybody safe and make sure nobody has any ill will," he claimed.

Reason

Video game firms found to have broken own UK industry rules on loot boxes

Government criticised over decision to let companies self-regulate gambling-style features after expert finds numerous breaches

The Guardian - UK

The world of underground sperm banks

The new documentary "Spermworld" explores the underground phenomenon shaking up fertility access

Salon

Royal reverse as Nine’s 60 Minutes goes from ‘scandal’ to sympathy for Princess of Wales

Original story scrutinised ‘Catherine’s photoshopping blunder’ but its replacement heaped praise on ‘a courageous woman’. Plus: David McBride v the ABC

The Guardian - AU

China turns to AI in propaganda mocking the ‘American Dream’

Chinese state media’s A Fractured America series shows how AI is beginning to shape Beijing’s influence campaigns.

Al Jazeera

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Canadian school boards sue social media giants over effects on students

Snapchat, TikTok, Facebook and Instagram are addictive and have ‘rewired’ the way children learn, educators say.

Evening Standard

Facebook launched a secret project to intercept user data from rival platforms, documents claim

Filings from a US lawsuit reveal why Facebook spied on Snapchat users’ data

Top News

Canadian School Boards Sue Social Media Giants Over Disruption

School boards in Ontario and U.S. sue social media giants for harming student learning and mental health, prompting calls for accountability and policy cha...

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These 50 Memes Are Just What You Need to Take a Break and Have a Giggle (New Pics)

The Facebook group 'Nice Meme, Thanks' is dedicated to sharing funny memes that capture the relatable moments of everyday struggles. The post These 50 Memes Are Just What You Need to Take a Break and Have a Giggle (New Pics) first appeared on Bored Panda.

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TechRadar

Facebook's Onavo VPN used to wiretap competitor data, court filings reveal

Snapchat was the main target of "Project Ghostbusters", which used the controversial spyware-like VPN to access encrypted data. YouTube and Amazon came next.

The Hindu

3 held in Kashmir for ‘false social media posts’

The J&K Police arrested three locals for creating “fake accounts” and “misleading locals” in the Kashmir valley.

Kiplinger

Donald Trump's Net Worth Hits $6.5 Billion, Despite Legal Woes

Boosted by Truth Social stock deal, Trump is thrust into the world’s wealthiest 500 people on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index

Al Jazeera

Is the US media layoffs phenomenon the next housing crisis?

The media sector’s challenges amplify shadow banks’ toll on the US economy and mirror the 2008 housing crisis.

The Street

How Facebook used a VPN to spy on what you do on social media

New court documents revealed the existence of a program that was designed to "intercept and decrypt" user analytics data from other apps.

Radio France Internationale

Big tech told to identify and label AI deepfakes ahead of EU elections

The European Union has urged Facebook, TikTok, and other major tech companies to take decisive action against deepfakes and other AI-generated content by implementing clear labels ahead of the European elections in June.

The Guardian - UK

Meta and Google accused of restricting reproductive health information

Report claims posts on abortion and contraception have been deleted while misinformation on the feeds of social media users in Africa, Latin America and Asia has not been tackled

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