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Ubisoft sexual harassment investigation claims three more executives
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China’s Great Firewall descends on Hong Kong internet users
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Profile of Stanford law professor Jim Steyer, who set up the Stop Hate for Profit campaign that has led to about 800 companies joining an ad boycott of Facebook
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Giant flywheel project in Scotland could prevent UK blackouts
Facebook is out of control. If it were a country it would be North Korea
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Hong Kong: books by pro-democracy activists disappear from library shelves
WhatsApp's private group structure encourages spread of misinfo and conspiracy theories as it enables higher levels of trust and solidarity among group members
Facebook says the good it does outweighs the bad. But how many ‘likes’ make up for the hate? | Facebook | The Guardian
New rightwing free speech site Parler gets in a tangle over … free speech | The social network bills itself as a ‘no censorship’ bastion – but it’s already had to remind users what is and isn’t allowed
Hundreds of Botswana elephants dead in mysterious mass die-off
The fall of Quibi: how did a starry $1.75bn Netflix rival crash so fast?
Putin's People – a groundbreaking study that follows the money
Angela Merkel: UK must live with consequences of weaker ties to EU | World news | The Guardian
French Revolution: remains discovered in walls of Paris monument
Say cheese: new Wallace and Gromit tale stars robot pigeons … and you
Beyond Pluto: the hunt for our solar system’s new ninth planet
‘We’ve bought the wrong satellites’: UK tech gamble baffles experts
Facebook announces new hate speech and misinformation policies amid advertiser revolt
Virgin Australia administrators agree to sell airline to Bain Capital
Renewable energy breaks UK record in first quarter of 2020
‘State-sanctioned violence’: US police fail to meet basic human rights standards | US news | The Guardian
An investigation into how QAnon conspiracies thrive on Facebook
Verizon pulls ads from Facebook over inaction on hate speech
Viber severs ties with Facebook in growing boycott
Construction begins on world’s biggest liquid air battery
Experts call for regulation after latest botched art restoration in Spain | Art and design | The Guardian
Facebook faces advertiser revolt over failure to address hate speech
Microsoft president’s criticism of app stores puts pressure on Apple – Cut of up to 30% charged by app stores obstructs fair competition, claims Brad Smith
NHS Covid app developers ‘tried to block rival symptom trackers’
World has six months to avert climate crisis, says energy expert | Environment | The Guardian
Katie Hopkins permanently removed from Twitter | Rightwing commentator’s account suspended for violating ‘hateful conduct’ policy
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Cern poised to back plan for €20bn successor to Large Hadron Collider – Proposed 100km circular tunnel would be four times as big and six times as powerful as LHC
Too many academics are now censoring themselves (2016)
A look at Shop, Shopify's new app for consumers, which saves stores from having to build their own shopping app and offers personalized product recommendations
Techmeme · 4 months ago
Norway suspends virus-tracing app due to privacy concerns
J Assange indictment fails to mention video that exposed US 'war crimes' in Iraq
Hacker News · 4 months ago
Facebook blocks and bans users for sharing Guardian article showing Aboriginal men in chains
50 years since the New Alchemy Institute created its ‘living machine’ (2019)
In response to Australian regulator, Facebook says it will not pay for shared news links and that not having them at all would not significantly impact business
Techmeme · 4 months ago