The Verge

MARCH 8, 2022

The tool, intended for journalists and other public figures, employs Jigsaw’s Perspective API to let users sort through potentially abusive comments on social media platforms starting with Twitter. For now, however, there’s not a standalone application that users can download.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Part of the financial health of public media stations in general involves the financial perks of being a nonprofit. They can apply for grants reserved for nonprofits while reserving the right to pull at heartstrings — and wallets — by saying their programming is funded by “viewers like you.”

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The Verge

JANUARY 12, 2021

But a wave of misinformation on social media, not helped by Facebook’s abysmal track record on privacy and its reputation for obfuscating changes to its various terms of service agreements, has resulted in a full-blown WhatsApp backlash that has users fleeing to competitors like Signal and Telegram.

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The Verge

JANUARY 7, 2021

As for what or who is responsible for so many new users interested in trying the platform, which is operated by the nonprofit Signal Foundation, there are two likely culprits: Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Signal competitor WhatsApp. This is called the domino effect pic.twitter.com/qpbEW54RvM — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 7, 2021. This is false.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 14, 2022

CBS: A computer security researcher was kept off a plane for suggesting on social media that he could hack into the planes control system. If you connect that antenna to one engine, you get the NOAA satellite signals and pictures you can download. So one security researcher decided to poke the tiger. Here’s CBS news. Absolutely.

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

I'm interested in how technology developed, one way is used by people in another. What about social media? It also means that just about anyone can do this, download the stalkerware onto another device. Might be misused and hurt others, [music]. Vamosi: Technology and how people use it, it's a subject of a lot of discussion.

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The Verge

MAY 13, 2020

I wrote about it today at The Verge : In a landmark acknowledgment of the toll that content moderation takes on its workforce, Facebook has agreed to pay $52 million to current and former moderators to compensate them for mental health issues developed on the job. I just wish that Facebook would recognize that.”. Sarah Perez / TechCrunch ).

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