A SWISS social media user has been convicted of defamation for “liking” posts on Facebook accusing an animal rights activist of being a racist and an anti-Semite. Source: Facebook user found guilty of defamation for ‘liking’ posts accusing an animal rights activist of being racist
Local TV stations make extensive use of “video news releases” which are pre-packaged public relations (PR) created fake news stories. All of the sampled TV stations “actively disguised the sponsored content to make it appear to be their own reporting. In almost all cases, stations failed to balance the clients’ messages with independently-gathered footage or basic journalistic research. More than one-third of the time, stations aired the pre-packaged V”NR in its entirety”. Source: Microsoft Word – Fake TV News —…
Twitter, just like Facebook, will now present content to you that Twitter’s algorithms believe you are interested in seeing. Effectively, Twitter joins Facebook in censoring the content you see, by default.
Twitter, just like Facebook, will now present content to you that Twitter’s algorithms believe you are interested in seeing. Effectively, Twitter joins Facebook in censoring the content you see, by default.
Facebook has collected massive amounts of personal data through our online habits (including advertising networks that track the web sites we visit), our posts on Facebook, the posts we like and share, the sites we log in to using our FB log in ID for access, and possibly scanning even our text messages on smart phones (their Facebook app gets permission to do so), and the details of our travel (via the Facebook apps use of location data). No one…