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Sacha Baron Cohen calls for real-time internet censorship
Cohen may be one of the last people you’d expect to be calling for censorship but here we are.
Facebook admits banning over 400,000 WhatsApp accounts during Brazil presidential election
Congressman Eduardo Bolsonaro, son of the President, criticized WhatsApp’s decision.
Some Chinese Facebook employees aren’t happy about Zuckerberg’s criticism of China
Zuck recently called out Chinese censorship.
Australia’s Attorney-General says Facebook and YouTube should be treated as publishers
The idea is spreading outside of the US.
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov: WhatsApp is consistently being used as a Trojan horse to spy on non-WhatsApp content
Durov added: “It’s very unlikely that anyone can accidentally commit major security errors, conveniently suitable for surveillance, on a regular basis.”
Reddit threatens The Donald with “further consequences” for posts discussing impeachment whistleblower
Last week Reddit said it wouldn’t censor the impeachment whistleblower’s name.
Facebook blocks PragerU post for being “Partly False” despite “fact-check” confirming the claims
PolitiFact agreed that PragerU’s post was factually correct but marked it as “Partly False” and blocked it anyway.
Facebook to end ad targeting by religion in India
The new policy will also prevent advertisers targeting by caste.
WhatsApp bans hundreds of Palestinian journalists, reports claim
The world’s most widely used messaging app, Facebook’s WhatsApp, has blocked the accounts of several Palestinian journalists – as this part of the Middle East is experiencing yet another violent flareup in the real world. Morocco World News writes that the decision came on Friday, in the wake o
Scammers caught trying to profit off of Narwhal, the puppy with a “horn”
Scammers are out looking for donations.
Michael Bloomberg to run $100M digital ads attack on President Trump
Bloomberg wants to out-spend the President.
Chroma Stories is an Instagram competitor by Instagram employees
Chroma Stories is an Instagram competitor built by insiders, meaning lead developers behind Instagram Stories and Boomerang.