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Post by Admin on Oct 29, 2021 0:15:42 GMT
'META'-MORPHOSIS: Facebook said on Thursday it would rebrand as Meta, a name change that underscores its ambitions to refocus the world's largest social network on building the "metaverse." The rebrand comes as the company battles criticisms from lawmakers and regulators over its market power, algorithmic decisions and the policing of abuses on its platforms.
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Post by Admin on Nov 2, 2021 15:39:06 GMT
LIVE: Petitions Committee evidence session on tackling online abuse - 2 November 2021
On 2 November, the Petitions Committee will resume its inquiry into tackling online abuse when they hear from anti-discrimination campaigners, charities and academics.
The session will focus on: - Opportunities and priorities for Government action to tackle online abuse aimed at people as a result of characteristics such as their sexuality, disability, or religion; - Stakeholders’ perspectives on the Government’s proposals to tackle online abuse through its draft Online Safety Bill; - How stronger Government-led interventions to tackle online abuse could affect freedom of speech online.
The Committee will be hearing from: - Nancy Kelley, Chief Executive, Stonewall - Danny Stone MBE, Chief Executive, Antisemitism Policy Trust - Matthew Harrison, Public Affairs and Parliamentary Manager, Royal Mencap Society - Ruth Smeeth, Chief Executive, Index on Censorship - Chara Bakalis, Principal Lecturer in Law, Oxford Brookes University - Dr Joe Mulhall, Head of Research, HOPE Not Hate
This session follows evidence sessions on this issue in summer 2020 with petitioners Katie and Amy Price, and Bobby Norris, focusing on their experience of receiving online abuse targeted at them and their families.
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Post by Admin on Dec 15, 2021 14:48:29 GMT
Facebook executive blames users for believing misinformation 372 views • Dec 15, 2021 • Individual users, not tech platforms, shoulder the responsibility for the spread of misinformation online, according to Andrew Bosworth, a top exec at Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook. #CNN #News
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Post by Admin on Dec 30, 2021 14:58:26 GMT
Misinformation about the Covid pandemic and climate change is slowing an effective collective response to these emergencies.
BBC Monitoring’s experts Shayan Sardarizadeh and Kayleen Devlin explain the misinformation trends they have seen in 2021 and the effects they have had on lives around the world.
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Post by Admin on Mar 5, 2022 2:18:10 GMT
Russia has completely blocked access to Facebook in retaliation for the platform placing restrictions on state-owned media.
The Russian state communications regulator, Roskomnadzor, later said it had also restricted access to Twitter.
Facebook and its sister platform Instagram have removed Russia Today (RT) and Sputnik from their output in the European Union this week and did the same with the UK on Friday, which drew an immediate response from the Russian communications regulator.
The Roskomnadzor watchdog said there had been 26 cases of discrimination against Russian media by Facebook since October 2020, with access restricted to state-backed news services like Russia Today and the RIA news agency. Last week the regulator had announced a “partial” block of Facebook, claiming that the social network had violated the “rights and freedoms of Russian nationals”.
Nick Clegg, the president of global affairs at Facebook’s parent, Meta, said blocking the platform would cut off “millions of ordinary Russians” from reliable information, deprive them of communications with friends and family and mean they were “silenced from speaking out”. He said: “We will continue to do everything we can to restore our services so they remain available to people to safely and securely express themselves and organize for action.”
The move comes as Russia on Friday passed a bill that criminalizes the intentional spreading of what Moscow deems to be “fake” reports.
The bill, quickly rubber-stamped by both houses of the Kremlin-controlled parliament and signed by Putin, imposes prison sentences of up to 15 years for those spreading information that goes against the Russian government’s narrative on the war.
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