Meta rolls out Meta AI in Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Libya, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, the UAE, and Yemen, and adds language support for Arabic
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An interview with Instacart founder and former CEO Apoorva Mehta on Instacart's beginnings, his board exit, his reluctance to take the company public, and more
and today he cut all ties with the company Reuters : Instacart set to be valued at nearly $13 bln in Wall Street debut Ari Levy / CNBC : Instacart closed up 12.33% in its Nasdaq debut, valuing the gro...
Critics say NetBlocks, which monitors internet shutdowns, needs to be more transparent about its methods as some cast doubt on the reliability of its reports
NetBlocks has become a crucial source of truth in the era of internet shutdowns. But many are now questioning its methods Tweets: @wired , @netblocks , @vulanemthembu , @ehundman , @anittatodayr , @a...
Four former executives of Nexa Technologies, an alleged supplier of surveillance tech to Libya and Egypt, were indicted for complicity in torture and war crimes
Sidney Fussell / Wired : Tweets: @startpage and @wired Tweets: @startpage : The tools were used to “identify dissidents and activists, read their private emails and messages, and, in some cases, kidn...
UN report: a Turkish-made autonomous weaponized drone “hunted down” and attacked a human target without instructions to do so during a 2020 conflict in Libya
Alyse Stanley / Gizmodo :
Facebook says people linked to France's military used fake accounts to meddle in African politics, tangling with similar efforts by Russia's IRA in some nations
and Africa in the middle of it. https://about.fb.com/... https://twitter.com/... Donie O'Sullivan / @donie : These tactics are most commonly associated with the Russian government — and, indeed, Faceb...
Facebook outlines actions taken against “inauthentic behavior” originating in Russia and targeting African countries, including Sudan, Libya, and Madagascar
and with the help of Facebook/FSBook, of course. I hope Africa is at least trying to stop this, because this is war. Russia wants Africa. https://twitter.com/... Michael Weiss / @michaeldweiss : See o...
Facebook outlines actions taken against “inauthentic behavior” originating in Russia and targeting African countries, including Sudan, Libya, and Madagascar
Facebook said it removed three Russian-backed influence networks aimed at African countries.
How efforts by independent investigators and NGOs to document human rights violations in war zones are hampered by proactive content removals by social networks
Megha Rajagopalan / BuzzFeed News : Tweets: @tobiaschneider , @miriamelder , @meghara , @saliltripathi , and @buzzfeednews Tweets: Tobias Schneider / @tobiaschneider : Mass deletions without systemat...
How efforts by independent investigators and NGOs to document human rights violations in war zones are hampered by proactive content removals by social networks
Investigators depend on photos and videos posted online from war zones. But takedowns by Facebook and YouTube are putting … Tweets: @tobiaschneider , @miriamelder , @meghara , @saliltripathi , and @b...