#Reddit buys TikTok rival Dubsmash in video content push

#Reddit buys TikTok rival Dubsmash in video content push

“#Reddit buys TikTok rival Dubsmash in video content push” Reddit said it has acquired video-sharing platform Dubsmash, making it the latest social-media giant to mount a challenge to TikTok. Seven-year-old Dubsmash lets users create and share videos of themselves lip-syncing to songs or clips from movies. Reddit said it will integrate Dubsmash’s video creation tools…

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#Post’s Hunter Biden reports ‘suppressed’ by media

#Post’s Hunter Biden reports ‘suppressed’ by media

“#Post’s Hunter Biden reports ‘suppressed’ by media” Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Glenn Greenwald said Thursday that potential wrongdoing by President Joe Biden’s son, exposed by The Post, was “suppressed prior to the election” by most other media and Big Tech. In a column he self-published online, Greenwald specifically cited a Post article that revealed emails from…

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#Facebook’s ‘anti-hate’ algorithm assumes only some bigotry matters

#Facebook’s ‘anti-hate’ algorithm assumes only some bigotry matters

“#Facebook’s ‘anti-hate’ algorithm assumes only some bigotry matters” Facebook is overhauling its algorithms for removing hate speech, The Washington Post reports, because policies it thought were race-blind were upsetting a lot of black users and employees. Specifically, it’s telling its robots to focus on “the worst of the worst,” according to internal documents the paper…

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# It’s not about data ownership, it’s about data control, EFF director says

# It’s not about data ownership, it’s about data control, EFF director says

“# It’s not about data ownership, it’s about data control, EFF director says ” As technology advances, personal data becomes an increasingly relevant topic. Many in the crypto industry hold sovereign finance and data privacy in high regard. Participants’ best efforts may be undermined by centralized businesses and regulating bodies, however, according to Cindy Cohn. Cohn is…

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#YouTuber Gabi DeMartino sorry for OnlyFans childhood video

#YouTuber Gabi DeMartino sorry for OnlyFans childhood video

“#YouTuber Gabi DeMartino sorry for OnlyFans childhood video” YouTube star Gabi DeMartino is apologizing once again for allegedly hawking a naked childhood video of herself on OnlyFans, pricing it at just $3. The two-minute apology video uploaded Thursday begins with the 25-year-old noting a “trigger warning” for fans watching her plea for forgiveness. “Recently my…

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#Twitter, other tech giants acting like censorious publishers

#Twitter, other tech giants acting like censorious publishers

“#Twitter, other tech giants acting like censorious publishers” Just a few weeks before the election, Twitter did what was once unthinkable: It censored a story published by this newspaper, the nation’s oldest continuously published daily. Users were barred from sharing The Post’s reportage on their newsfeeds and via direct messages. No one failed to notice…

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#Facebook vows to remove false claims about COVID-19 vaccines

#Facebook vows to remove false claims about COVID-19 vaccines

“#Facebook vows to remove false claims about COVID-19 vaccines” Facebook says it will remove bogus claims about coronavirus vaccines from its platforms in its latest effort to clamp down on misinformation during the pandemic. The social network’s Thursday announcement came as officials around the world make plans to distribute the shots with regulators expected to…

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