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How Pacific Science Center ran safe, successful summer camps — in-person — despite COVID-19

GeekWire

The nonprofit just wrapped up 10 weeks of camps, with nearly 1,500 kids participating at the spacious Seattle campus and three partner locations, and another 1,500 kids enrolled in the Science Center’s virtual camps, including students from out of state. “We She asked her kids if they were game for going in person.

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The case for taking AI seriously as a threat to humanity

Vox

Nick Bostrom is a professor at the University of Oxford, the director of the Future of Humanity Institute, and the director of the Governance of Artificial Intelligence Program. uprising is very unlikely and very far in the future, we still need to think about it, design precautionary measures, and establish guidelines,” he writes.

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YouTube says China-linked comment deletions weren’t caused by outside parties

The Verge

The phrases that triggered automatic deletion included “communist bandit” and “50-cent party,” a slang term for internet users paid to defend the CCP. When did YouTube end up the de facto enforcer of Chinese censorship rules on the world’s internet? This was not the result of outside interference”. Transparency over censorship.

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Facebook’s war against one of the internet’s worst conspiracy sites

Vox

The internet trust tool NewsGuard reports that Natural News “severely violates basic standards of credibility and transparency.” That hasn’t stopped Natural News from crying censorship and urging readers to appeal to Facebook and even the federal government over the bans.

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Here are all the winners of the 2020 Webby Awards

The Verge

Webby Break the Internet Award: Swizz Beatz + Timbaland for the Verzuz battles on Instagram Live. Webby Award for Charitable Organization / Nonprofit : Our Stories Alzheimer’s Awareness Campaign by The Ad Council. Webby People’s Voice Award for Charitable Organization / Nonprofit : Equal Justice Initiative by Madeo.

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Big Tech’s employees are one of the biggest checks on its power

Vox

Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen created an international media blitz earlier this year when she leaked tens of thousands of damning internal company documents to the Wall Street Journal and US government. She found that a torrent of politically motivated fake accounts was slipping through the cracks and avoiding detection at Facebook.

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

The Verge

Of course, it’s easy to laugh at some of the puritanical content guidelines TikTok has established. Because it was required to by the authoritarian Chinese government, TikTok took content moderation deadly seriously. Governing. ? Both have large tattoos. TikTok is registered in the Cayman Islands, for example. Sam Shead / CNBC).

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