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How to watch Facebook’s F8 2019 developer conference livestream
Mark Zuckerberg will begin his keynote at 10AM Pacific Time on April 30th, 2019 and there’s a livestream to go along with it. Here’s how to watch.
Facebook’s promised clear history feature still doesn’t exist
Facebook promised the feature last year but still hasn’t delivered it. Many are wondering if it will ever be released.
New Texas bill aims to stop Facebook and Twitter censoring content on the basis of political views
The vote in Texas this week on Senate Bill (SB) 2373 shows the relevance of this consideration
Popular UK news outlet Politicalite has Facebook page shut down
Politicalite UK writes that Facebook informed them their page had been “unpublished” – leaving the media outlet unable to reach 40,000 followers it had amassed on the global social media platform.
Facebook’s new methods for policing EU election misinformation often spread misleading information and suppress truthful information
Facebook’s changes promote mainstream media sites, suppress alternative media, and allow biased and misleading political information to spread on the platform.
Child labor laws never anticipated the YouTube and “influencer” era
Children are being put to work on YouTube and Instagram.
Facebook’s FTC fine could be much higher than the reported $3-5 billion
Although $3 billion is a considerable amount of money, it pales in comparison to other fines issued by the FTC.
The Algorithmic Accountability Act will give tech companies the seemingly impossible task of assessing bias in algorithms
A purely legislative initiative is never going to be enough – strong engagement with the tech industry and the people involved is necessary for the measures to work efficiently.
Weedcraft Inc is facing YouTube censorship issues
The game soon hit the wall of YouTube’s and Facebook’s “aggressive policing.”
Twitter’s user growth has stalled, amid controversy
That is why Twitter has been under pressure from investors since it went public in 2013 to grow users, and thus ad revenue.
New WhatsApp update will prevent screenshots
Since this is an early development version of the update, it’s also unclear right now if screenshots will continue to be disabled once the update rolls out, and whether the changes will affect iOS users as well.
Facebook is finding it impossible to police content due to so many global languages
The company points out that machine learning requires very large data sets – that are unavailable in many languages.