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Facebook executives say Zuckerberg and Sandberg are “incredibly involved” in content policy and moderation
Apparently, Sandberg and Zuckerberg are willing to micromanage the behemoth that currently serves nearly 2.5 billion users and has tens of thousands of employees.
eBay is investigating why its logo turned into a photo of a topless woman
The circumstances under which the mistake happened would still not go a long way towards explaining why the image was stored on eBay’s – or Microsoft’s – computers in the first place.
Twitter bows to China, changes Hong Kong’s geotag to “Hong Kong SAR China”
Some commenters accused the social network of pandering to China
Fortigate & Pulse VPNs hit by hackers
This isn’t the first time these VPNs have faced the issue of security flaws.
Snapchat and Instagram down in Europe and the US
Snapchat has acknowledged the outage on Twitter and says it’s looking into the issue but as of yet, it’s unresolved.
India considers new legislation to force big tech companies to sell their data
This new guideline will also ensure the fact that there will be greater scope for competition as all players, either big or small will have access to the customer data.
Twitch streamer Amouranth suspended after rolling over and flashing genitals to viewers
2 hours after the streaming incident took place, Twitch ended up shutting down the account of Amouranth.
Tulsi Gabbard hits back at big tech censorship, algorithms, and suppressing freedom of speech
Gabbard said that social platforms are trying to “get the best of both worlds,” marketing themselves as free and open communication platforms and expel those whose ideas and expressions they dislike.
Google bans family cafe for “offensive content” for posting photo of British dish, faggots and peas
“I don’t really associate the word ‘faggots’ with anything offensive, and yet someone has made a decision that’s affecting my livelihood.”
Hong Kong starts blocking VPNs as protests continue
Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam hinted that the country may start blocking certain internet applications to stop the protestors organizing last week.
EA wins Guinness World Record for most downvoted Reddit comment in history
Gamer Redditors didn’t take too kindly to EA doubling down on their hostile pay-to-play business practices and downvoted the post into the Reddit history.
Major Facebook bug allows users to edit the title of any news article
There are at least two loopholes that we know of that allow you to edit the title of any article that you post to Facebook.