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Google is releasing an open source harassment filter for journalists

The Verge

Google’s Jigsaw unit is releasing the code for an open source anti-harassment tool called Harassment Manager. 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.

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Empowering Change: Digital Library Solutions for Nonprofits

Kitaboo

Unlimited digital files of magazines, books, journals, articles, audio, and more are preserved in these virtual libraries. Top Features of Digital Library Solutions for Non-Profit Organizations Digital Asset Management (DAM) Systems Open-Source Digital Library System Cloud-Based Digital Library System II. Table of Contents I.

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GeekWire Podcast: NY Times vs. Microsoft; Plus, Oren Etzioni on AI in 2023 and beyond

GeekWire

GPT: Microsoft finds itself on the other side of an industry-defining copyright dispute Francesco Marconi in the WSJ: AI and Journalism Need Each Other Listen below, or subscribe to GeekWire in Apple Podcasts , Google Podcasts , Spotify or wherever you listen, and keep reading for key takeaways. Related coverage on GeekWire: NYT v.

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Jack Dorsey would rather give you a bitcoin wallet than Twitter features worth paying for

The Verge

Twitter Blue — the social network’s first subscription product that adds an undo button to tweets among other minor additions like changing the color of icons and adding folders for bookmarks — launched on Thursday. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. jack (@jack) June 4, 2021.

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HackerOne CEO Mårten Mickos: COVID-19 is ‘the planet’s warning’ to accelerate digital civilization

GeekWire

A native of Finland, he’s the former CEO of MySQL, the open-source database company that was sold to Sun Microsystems in 2008. So the criminals are, of course, going where the people go, and then there’s a lot of social hacking and scamming, phishing. So WiFi, VPN, authentication, passwords, mobile phones and so on.

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The Twitter power users who can’t just quit

Vox

But while many prominent journalists have raised concerns about Musk’s actions — and some have shifted to new social media platforms like Mastodon and Post — few have abandoned Twitter altogether. Since it’s part of Lorenz’s job to cover social media, she remains on the platform.

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Facebook is taking a hard look at racial bias in its algorithms

Vox

The move is a significant acknowledgment that the algorithms driving two of the most influential social media platforms can be discriminatory. Instagram will create an “equity team” charged with tasks like analyzing the enforcement of its harassment policies and studying its algorithms for racial bias, the Wall Street Journal reports.