Facebook Pulls 22.5 Million Hate Speech Posts in Quarter
Facebook Pulls / Speech Posts Facebook Inc. removed 22.5 million posts for violating the company’s policies around hate speech in the second quarter, more than double the number taken down during the first three months of the year and up from just 2.5 million posts two years ago. Fonte: Bloomberg Leia todo o texto Link: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-11/facebook-pulls-22-5-million-hate-speech-posts-in-second-quarter?cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=twitter&utm_content=business&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwAR2ZDG48R82jWVV_sHHnWPZfkt_JWFIGdT9FP6j4JSwxN9ujcQQxsCNQ5bo Leia outros textos aqui
The Sociologist Who Could Save Us From Coronavirus
Sociologist / Coronavirus We all know the Chernobyl script. A badly designed reactor suffered a meltdown. The decrepit Soviet regime tried to hide the disaster. Millions of citizens were put at risk. And the truth came out. The regime paid the price. Its legitimacy was in tatters. Collapse followed. Fonte: Foreign Policy Leia todo o texto Link: https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/08/01/the-sociologist-who-could-save-us-from-coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR1AZDhoBKbm8qeDu8em5pLSGdQPLwKrmzHq3BgeqFBqHsiqUV1ceBhIYV8 Leia outros textos aqui
BBC broadcasters furious over new rules restricting ‘partisan’ use of Twitter
BBC broadcasters / Twitter Regular freelance contributors and BBC broadcasters have been left angry and confused this weekend in the wake of the new director general Tim Davie’s comments about restrictions to their use of Twitter. Fonte: The Guardian Leia todo o texto Link: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/sep/06/bbc-broadcasters-furious-over-new-rules-restricting-partisan-use-of-twitter?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&fbclid=IwAR00N8Qn8c0hlkxUOFPAz8aEVCrJsYqWBfksbUyg1ADZ9ENkXQqrFQHNuXc Leia outros textos aqui
UK’s internet use surges to record levels
UK’s internet / record levels Our annual Online Nation report shows that in April 2020, during the height of the coronavirus lockdown, UK adults spent a daily average of four hours and two minutes online. This is up from just under three and a half hours in September last year. Fonte: Ofcom Leia todo o texto Link: https://www.ofcom.org.uk/about-ofcom/latest/features-and-news/uk-internet-use-surges/_nocache?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwAR03ZnPBlD1SdVwcGRO4z4RIxHmWJCN_jNh1T-aWCCu32JqPO5niqMVMGAk Leia outros textos aqui
Covid-19 Shows That Scientific Journals Need to Open Up
Covid-19 / Scientific Journals One big change brought on by Covid-19 is that virtually all the scientific research being produced about it is free to read. Anyone can access the many preliminary findings that scholars are posting on “preprint servers.” Data are shared openly via a multitude of different channels. Scientific journals that normally keep their articles behind formidable paywalls have been making an exception for new research about the…
