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Epic Games accused of removing copies of Detroit: Become Human from user accounts
After a bug caused Detroit: Become Human to be made free in the Russian Epic Games Store, the company has removed free versions of the game from user accounts.
Article 13 and Article 11 passed – so what now?
Articles 11 and 13 of the Directive (commonly known as “the link tax” and “the upload filter”) have drawn much resistance and criticism from government officials, legal professionals, content creators, and internet users.
Fox 17 in Nashville posts a fake news tweet that suggests Infowars host Alex Jones may have been involved in a high-speed chase and standoff with police
At the time of writing, the tweet has been left up for over 17 hours and has yet to be removed.
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg hints that more censorship is coming to the platform
In an open letter, Sandberg promised the company would be restricting who can use Facebook Live, using better technology to take down more content, and taking a more aggressive stance against what it deems to be “hate” in the wake of the New Zealand mass shootings.
The EU’s Rapid Alert System that shares info about “fake news” between member states is now in action
The European Commission has also enlisted help from “independent fact-checkers and researchers to detect and expose disinformation campaigns across social networks.
NordVPN shuts down its Russian servers in a push-back response to Russia’s over-reaching demands
NordVPN is standing strong.
The implementation of the UK porn ID system is going badly
The quandary now proving difficult to resolve and making it harder to implement the idea.
Twitter temporarily suspended the account of pro-life movie “Unplanned” during its opening weekend
Twitter is constantly being accused of being biased against conservatives
European lawmakers lied when they said that the Article 13 “upload filter” was just a myth
They changed their tune as soon as the vote was passed.
Prosecutors want key figures of the infamous copyright troll company Prenda Law firm to over a decade in jail
Members of the firm uploaded torrents of copyrighted pornographic material to the Pirate Bay sharing website with the goal of luring “pirates” into downloading this content, TorrentFreak is reporting.
Poland issues its first ever GDPR fine
The fine was levied against an unnamed company which processed the personally identifiable information of over six million Polish citizens without their consent.
Google is reportedly still working on its censored Chinese search engine Project Dragonfly
Internal Google sources have said that the company is performing closed performance reviews of Project Dragonfly and that management has committed to keeping the project secret.