New Zealand PM Says Tech Giants Bear ‘Responsibility’ for Mosque Shooting Attack Video
“They are the publisher. Not just the postman … There cannot be a case of all profit, no responsibility,” Jacinda Ardern says
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Inside Facebook, YouTube and Twitter’s Struggle to Purge Video of the New Zealand Mosque Attacks
Facebook’s AI technology can spot blood and gore from the livestream, enabling Facebook to immediately remove uploads showing the most gruesome footage, a rep tells TheWrap
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Death Toll in New Zealand Mosque Shootings Rises to 49
Apparent video of the attack was posted on Facebook, New York Times says
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Facebook Loses Two Top Executives, Including Chief Product Officer Chris Cox
WhatsApp VP Chris Daniels also to depart social network, Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg says
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Facebook and Instagram Are Down for Some Users
“Facebook???? Instagram???? Atleast the Soulja App isn’t down,” rapper Soulja Boy says of outage
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Elizabeth Warren Rips Facebook After It Reinstates Her Anti-Facebook Ads
Presidential candidate says that social media platform “has too much power”
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Facebook Commits to New ‘Privacy First’ Mantra, Mark Zuckerberg Says
CEO says Facebook’s network of apps will adopt end-to-end encryption and auto-deleting messages
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Pluto TV CEO on Impact of $340 Million Viacom Deal – and a Possible Premium Streaming Plan
“We’ve grown fast, but we’re going to grow a heckuva lot faster now that we’re partnering up with Viacom,” CEO Tom Ryan says
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Is Facebook Stuck in a No-Win Position When It Comes to Moderating Content?
“People already generally think that we have too much power in deciding what content is good,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a recent interview
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Will Smith Checks Skydiving Off His Bucket List in New Facebook Watch Series
Six-episode series will show “Aladdin” star swimming with sharks and performing standup comedy
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Facebook’s Top-Secret Content Moderators Smoke Marijuana to ‘Numb Their Emotions,’ Report Says
It’s impossible to “not come out of it with some acute stress disorder or PTSD” a former moderator tells The Verge
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How Digital Video Publishers Are Racing to Take Advantage of Connected TV’s Growth in Popularity
Connected TV use is rising and companies like Conde Nast and Refinery29 want in
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Facebook Shuts Down Data-Collection App Onavo
Onavo is being pulled from the Google Play store months after it was kicked off Apple’s App Store
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Facebook Acted Like ‘Digital Gangsters,’ British Parliament Says
Social network is criticized for overlooking user privacy in order to grow its ad business, according to U.K. lawmakers
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Deepfake Videos Could Become Undetectable Within the Next 2 Years, Experts Say
“You now have an emerging technology that has a much greater capacity for persuasion,” law professor Robert Chesney says
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Why Social Media Goliath Jellysmack Is Betting Big on Participatory Video
5 Questions: The digital publisher formerly known as Keli Networks is going all in on original content and beauty-focused videos
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Google and Facebook’s Complete and Total Digital Ad Domination Explained in 1 Chart
Tech duopoly controls more than 60 percent of all global online advertising — a dominance that’s projected to only grow in the next three years
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Twitter Finally Reports Daily User Base, Posts Strong Q4 Revenue Growth
Company stock still drops 7 percent in pre-market trading on weak Q1 guidance
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FX Boss John Landgraf Bashes Google and Facebook’s ‘Winner-Take-All’ Mentality: ‘Not a Good Thing for Society’
TCA 2019: FX boss says he’s fundamentally opposed to when “one entity or one person gets to unilaterally make the rules or pronounce the truth”
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7 Things We Learned in Tech World This Week, From Apple’s Blunder to Elon Musk’s Pivot to Boring
Apple’s FaceTime blunder shows it has its own privacy concerns, while Facebook’s year of bad press did nothing to scare users away
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Apple Apologizes for FaceTime Bug, Says a Fix Will Be Available Next Week
Glitch allowed callers to listen to audio on someone else’s phone — even if they didn’t answer
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Facebook Removes 783 Iranian Accounts for ‘Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior’
Purged accounts spread Iranian state media as well as anti-Semitic cartoons
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Refinery29’s Jenifer Geller Tapped by Jellysmack as Head of Beauty Sales (Exclusive)
She will report directly to Jellysmack’s head of sales and partnerships Brent Spitzer
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Instagram Stories Just Passed 500 Million Daily Users
Instagram now has 314 million more daily Stories users than Snapchat
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Facebook’s Stock Surges 7 Percent on Huge Q4 Sales, Massive User Growth
Social network added 30 million daily active users in spite of recent data privacy concerns
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Facebook Drops App That Paid Teens $20 for Full Access to Their Phones
The “Research App” gave the social media empire access to private messages and web search history
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Facebook Q4 Earnings Preview: Will Bad Press Drive Users Away?
And will the social network provide a glimpse at how Instagram and Facebook Watch are performing?
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BuzzFeed to Lay Off 15 Percent of Its Staff
Cuts are expected to happen next week, a person familiar with the matter tells TheWrap
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Twitter Suspends Account That Spread Selective Video of Covington Students and Native American Elder
A “fake and misleading” account violated Twitter’s policy against manipulating the public conversation
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Mariah Carey Wins the 10-Year Challenge: ‘Time Is Not Something I Acknowledge’
Singer posts a pair of matching pics with her Jack Russell terrier taken at “some point prior to today”
