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Meta might let anti-vax posts back onto Facebook and Instagram
Today, let’s talk about a settled question that Meta has decided to re-open: what should the company do about misinformation related to COVID-19? Since the earliest days of the pandemic, Meta has sought to remove false claims about the disease
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Anti-vax dating site exposed data for 3500 users through “debug mode” bug
Unsurprisingly, it seems like the type of people who shun vaccinations are not great at preventative cybersecurity either. As reported by the Daily Dot, “Unjected” — a dating site specifically for people who are not vaccinated against COVID-19 — failed
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Ebook service Hoopla brings anti-vax, Holocaust denial, and pro-LGBTQ conversion books to libraries
An ebook subscription platform used by thousands of public libraries in the US and elsewhere is offering Holocaust denial, COVID disinformation, LGBTQ conversion therapy, and other conspiracy theory books, according to a report by Motherboard. Hoopla — a Netflix-like subscription
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How Facebook twisted Canada’s trucker convoy into an international movement
After more than two weeks of chaotic protest, this week, the Canadian government pushed back. On Tuesday, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked the country’s Emergencies Act, enabling new financial restrictions on the protests and signaling harsh new penalties against
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Facebook explains the backbone shutdown behind its massive outage
The massive outage that took down Facebook, its associated services (Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, Messenger), its platform for businesses, and the company’s own internal network all started with routine maintenance. According to infrastructure vice president Santosh Janardhan, a command issued during
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Former VW, Audi bosses to pay Volkswagen millions over Dieselgate
Volkswagen will receive around $350 million as part of a settlement with executives who ran the company during the Dieselgate emissions cheating scandal, after claiming they breached their “duty of care.” Former CEO Martin Winterkorn has agreed to pay the
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Where did the covid microchip vaccine conspiracy theory come from?
On October 2nd, 2020, then-President Donald Trump and the first lady tested positive for the coronavirus. As we were all waking up to the news, I got into my car and tuned in to The Breakfast Club on Power 105.1
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