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Social media platforms still can’t stop mass shooting videos from going viral

Vox

Saturday’s racially motivated made-for-the-internet mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, went differently. It’s a tragedy because you only need one copy of the video for this thing to live forever online and endlessly multiply,” said Emerson Brooking, a resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council think tank who studies social media.

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YouTube has terminated five Myanmar military-run channels as political unrest continues

The Verge

YouTube terminated five Myanmar military channels from its platform on Friday, Reuters reports. We have terminated a number of channels and removed several videos from YouTube in accordance with our community guidelines and applicable laws,” a YouTube spokesperson tells The Verge.

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YouTube has paid more than $30 billion to creators, artists, and others over the last three years

The Verge

GDP in 2019, supporting the equivalent of 345,000 full time jobs,” according to an Oxford Economics report that Wojcicki highlights. Wojcicki noted that at the “scale we operate, it’s hard for creators to keep up with changing Community Guidelines.”. The letter also focuses on the work YouTube’s team still has in front of them.

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Meta is finally having its moment with the Twitter alternative Threads

Vox

In a week, Meta’s social media app Threads, positioned as a competitor to Twitter, has reached 100 million users. Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images With 100 million users, Mark Zuckerberg is already winning his fight against Elon Musk — at least in the cage match that is social media.

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WhatsApp sues Indian government over new rules it says break encryption

The Verge

Facebook-owned messaging service WhatsApp is suing India’s government over new internet rules it claims are unconstitutional and will “severely undermine the privacy” of its users, The New York Times reports. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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What IT leaders need to know about the EU AI Act

CIO Business Intelligence

The untargeted scraping of facial images from the internet or security footage to create facial recognition databases is also prohibited. The law would also ban AI systems that monitor employee or student emotions, conduct social scoring, or engage in predictive policing based on a person’s profile or characteristics.

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Top 5 Ways to Defend Against Ransomware Now

SecureWorld News

Here are a few guidelines to help better protect your organization. Bring awareness to social engineering and mitigate those risks. Social engineering, according to most experts at SecureWorld, is the key reason cyber incidents are thriving. Patch software requiring internet access regularly.