Author: Zach_Wilson
#ReleaseTheJJCut: “Star Wars” Misinformation Hell Is The New Future Of Everything
Woody Harrington for BuzzFeed News Last week, a post on the r/SaltierThanCrait subreddit — a forum that started as a place for Star Wars fans to pick apart 2017’s The Last Jedi — caused an eruption. Written by a user named egoshoppe, the message claimed director J.J. Abrams’ original cut…
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Facebook Said It Won’t Change Its Policies On Allowing Lies In Political Ads
Facebook will not make any changes to its policies around political advertising, including ones that allow politicians to lie in ads and micro-target specific audiences, the company announced on Thursday. Facebook’s announcement follows intense pressure from lawmakers in the last few months over the company’s decisions to allow politicians to…
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Facebook Is Running Anti-Vax Ads, Despite Its Ban On Vaccine Misinformation
Earthley Screenshot of the Earthley pamphlet that is being advertised on Facebook. The vaccine for whooping cough, also known as pertussis, is currently among the best ways to prevent an illness that kills more than 160,000 people each year, many of them babies. The vaccine is safe and does not…
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A Pro-Iran Instagram Campaign Targeted The Trump Family After Soleimani’s Funeral
The same day Gen. Qassem Soleimani’s funeral procession filled the streets of Ahvaz, Iran, thousands of pro-Iran Instagram accounts worked in coordination to tag the US president’s family in image posts ranging from the Iranian flag to a beheaded Donald Trump. The Instagram accounts for Ivanka and Melania Trump were…
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Twitter Will Let You Limit Who Can Reply To Your Tweets. It’s Unclear How People Will Use This New Feature To Harass Each Other.
Suzanne Xie, Twitter’s director of product management, told the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas Wednesday that the platform would soon be allowing users to restrict who could reply to their tweets. According to the Verge, Xie said that Twitter would have a new setting called “conversation participants.” The…
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A Facebook Executive Said The Platform Is Responsible For Trump’s Election
Facebook is still reckoning with its role in the 2016 election as it heads into a contentious 2020 presidential race, according to a newly leaked executive memo and a shifting set of policies around manipulated content issued Tuesday. The 2,500-word memo from longtime Facebook executive Andrew “Boz” Bosworth, which was…
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