April 24, 2026

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Facebook’s Reason for Banning Researchers Doesn’t Hold Up

From www.wired.com
2021-08-04 20:00:28
Gilad Edelman
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When Facebook said Tuesday that it was suspending the accounts of a team of NYU researchers, it made it seem like the company’s hands were tied. The team had been crowdsourcing data on political ad targeting via a browser extension, something Facebook had repeatedly warned them was not allowed.

“For months, we’ve attempted to work with New York University to provide three of their researchers the precise access they’ve asked for in a privacy-protected way,” wrote Mike Clark,…

 

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Facebook’s New Vulnerability, “Misinformation”

PGC – Facebook is being accused of letting climate ‘misinformation’ get through its filters by a social media report that is sure to give ammunition to those who would wish to see power more rooted in their particular sphere of power.

Governments around the world can now use its own too-quick willingness to attempt to be responsibile for something like misinformation when it threw in with the coalition of the willing in opposition to the great bad boogeyman Donald J Trump, whose legend was used as a justification for turning the 2020 election into a war to overcome filters or lock down opposition to the shared outcome, a DNC win, by any means necessary.

Now, Facebook’s willingness to dive in to such a sea of responsibility in the name of stopping the literal devil, Donald J Trump, makes them vulnerable to any government ruling wannabes that can now use its accepted ‘responsibility’ of being the filter of true data versus misinformation across the board.

So long as the government officials have the ear and the voice and the power of the state behind them, their definition of misinformation had better be yours, Facebook, else you face fines or other such measures beyond fines, such as Facebook-busting antitrust moves.

When you dance with the devil, don’t be surprised when you find, at the end of the dance, all of your valuables missing.

Facebook let fossil-fuel industry push climate misinformation, report finds : worldnews

From www.reddit.com
2021-08-05 02:16:59
/u/Pazluz
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This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 83%. (I’m a bot)


Facebook failed to enforce its own rules to curb an oil and gas industry misinformation campaign over the climate crisis during last year’s presidential election, according to a new analysis released on Thursday.

Exxon alone spent $5m.”The industry is using a range of messaging tactics that are far more nuanced than outright statements of climate denial. Some of the most significant tactics found included tying the use…

 

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Are Robotic Police Dogs Useful Tools or Threatening Machines?

From learningenglish.voanews.com
2021-08-04 18:01:41

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A robotic police dog is being used to look for high body temperatures in homeless people at a temporary shelter in Hawaii’s capital, Honolulu.

The effort is one way public safety agencies are starting to use the commercial robot Spot. Spot can move like an animal and can walk over almost…

 

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Poll Shows Many Seniors Would Switch Parties For Lower Drug Prices

From crooksandliars.com
2021-08-04 13:01:00
Common Dreams
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A survey released Tuesday by the Alliance for Retired Americans finds that seniors overwhelmingly support allowing Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices directly with pharmaceutical companies—so much so that a sizeable percentage would cross…

 

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‘Law’ that defined how chips have been made for decades has run itself into a cul de sac

From www.theregister.com
2021-08-05 04:30:00

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In 1975, eight years after leaving Fairchild to co-found Intel, Moore revised his “law”, actually just an observation, to a doubling every two years. But the other predictions in his original paper of revolutions in computing, communication and general electronics had taken hold. The chip industry had the perfect metric to aim for a rolling, virtuous milestone like no other.

Since then, according to Professor Erica Fuchs of Carnegie Mellon University, “half of economic growth in the US and worldwide has also been attributed to this trend and the innovations it enabled throughout the economy.” Virtually all of industry, science, medicine, and every aspect of daily life now depends on computers that are ever faster, cheaper, and more widely spread…..

….during the three-node transition from 65nm through 40nm to 28nm, cost per wafer went up by only a third from $2k to $3k while per-chip dropped by two-thirds from $1,428 to $453. Those days have gone, and are not coming back.

Even if there are two or three more cycles left through transistors, packaging and architectural changes, the drivers that Gordon Moore saw for silicon have been replaced by force of habit. What alternatives are there?

 

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Russia Cancels “Extremists” from World Wide Web

Russia Blocks Exiled Khodorkovsky’s News Sites, Rights Group

From www.themoscowtimes.com
2021-08-05 03:09:39

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Russian authorities have blocked access to exiled former tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s rights group website and news outlets, which have been critical of the Kremlin ahead of next month’s high-stakes elections.

Open Media and MBKh Media said late Wednesday that they had not…

 

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Google Allows Crypto Ads Again in US, Blacklists ICOs and DeFi

From www.financemagnates.com
2021-08-04 10:37:32
Arnab Shome
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Google has updated its advertising policy for financial products and services, allowing marketers to run cryptocurrency advertisements again, effective from Tuesday. But, the search-engine giant is putting heavy restrictions on the advertisements related to cryptocurrencies.

The ads targeted to the United States-based consumers must be of regulated crypto companies, meaning they must be registered with the ‘FinCEN as a Money Services Business and with at least one state as a money…

 

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U. Nebraska anti-racism group rips regent’s effort to limit critical race theory

From thecollegefix.com
2021-08-04 08:39:24
Dave Huber – Associate Editor
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An “anti-racism” group at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has officially come out in opposition to efforts at restricting the teaching of critical race theory, or CRT.

Specifically, the Journey for Anti-Racism and Racial Equity is “appalled, saddened and deeply alarmed” at UN Regent…

 

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Why Iran’s new social media bill may threaten livelihoods

From www.csmonitor.com
2021-08-04 12:28:40
Mehdi Fattahi and Isabel Debre
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Tehran, Iran

For Ali Hedieloo, who makes wooden furniture in Iran’s capital, Instagram is more than just a surfeit of glossy images. Like an estimated 1 million other Iranians, it’s how he finds customers, as the app has exploded into a massive e-commerce service in the sanctions-hit country.

But now, the social media platform has come under threat. Iran moved last week toward further government restrictions on Instagram and other apps, as hardline…

 

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