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What a speech controversy at Stanford tells us about Facebook?s Oversight Board

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Facebook says it will abide by the board’s decisions, and will also ask it to issue advisory opinions on emerging policy questions. Here’s Nick Anderson in the Washington Post : Stanford University law professor Michael W. Amazon is considering buying a stake worth at least $2 billion in Indian mobile operator Bharti Airtel.

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Everything we know about this week’s big Twitter hack so far

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One company where those discussions were particularly vigorous was Facebook, a platform that showcased the protests and the violence that led up to them — and, some employees argued, had empowered white supremacy and other forms of hate speech through a combination of content policies and moderation decisions. Product, policy, everything.

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TikTok’s success has made it a big target for regulators

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This dynamic was captured beautifully on Wednesday in a story in the Wall Street Journal that charts the company’s ever-evolving content policies, which have grudgingly adjusted over the past several months to welcome such previously verboten content as political protests, MAGA hats, “more than two inches of cleavage,” and. Industry. ?

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Ukrainian influencers bring the frontlines to TikTok

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Aside from one lighthearted reference to the escalating situation with Russia, Korban’s page stayed on message: “YOU CAN BE AN INVESTOR.”. TikTok has responded: the company announced it would begin adding labels to videos from some state-controlled media outlets, expediting the state media policy in response to the invasion of Ukraine.

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Microsoft avoided a round of Big Tech scrutiny. Then it bought a company for $69 billion.

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“It’s odd how you can fall out of the field of vision, even though you’re an extraordinarily important company,” William Kovacic, who served as chair of the FTC under President George W. This was front-page news, every day was what happened in the trial that day. Bush, told Recode. Then-CEO Bill] Gates did not come across well.

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Summary of Twitter stream from Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum

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200 pages, Case studies, very practical, useful info #e2ef. lyndakelly61: #e2ef chris lampard: had a nitemare of business practices it seems, dynamic, integrated web content w other business practices. chieftech: 75% of Janssen-Cilag staff have contributed to their intranet (which is wiki) but 84% of pages only have1 contributor #e2ef.

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Instagram’s political awakening

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Black Lives Matter Los Angeles’s account has gone from around 40,000 followers on Instagram to 150,000 in the past few weeks, surpassing the popularity of its Facebook page , which has about 55,000 followers. w/ #Pride, Every Black Life Matters. The NAACP has seen a record 1 million additional Instagram followers in the past month.

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