Meta approved 14 AI-manipulated Facebook ads during India's election with known slurs against Muslims; civil groups submitted and then pulled the ads as a test
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Twitter reinstates some Hindu nationalist accounts popular in India, including some denigrating Muslims, and blocks links to a BBC documentary on Narendra Modi
A look at the Islamic world's debate over cryptocurrencies, seen as gambling by some, as millions of people in Indonesia and the Middle East invest in crypto
and where the line is between a reasonable investment and pure gambling/speculation. “Lo and behold, there is a coin called WifeDoge.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/... Deepa...
After Facebook and Twitter suspended Trump's account, activists and human rights groups have urged the companies to apply their policies evenly around the world
Human rights groups and activists have spent years urging the companies to do more to remove content that encouraged violence. Tweets: @ceciliakang , @peterwsinger , @stinson , @evelyndouek , @tonyrom...
In an about face, Facebook bans a BJP politician in India for violating its hate speech policies, after reports its lobbying exec Ankhi Das defended his posts
that needs to change The Economic Times : Facebook India chief Ajit Mohan appears before Parliamentary panel The Economic Times : Facebook bans BJP politician Raja Singh for his post containing hate s...
Sources detail the efforts by Facebook executives to accommodate Trump's posts, starting in 2015 with a Trump video calling for a ban of Muslims entering the US
Starting as early as 2015, Facebook executives started crafting exceptions for the then-candidate that transformed the world's information battlefield for years to come.
A look at the rise of “sharia-fintech” startups in Indonesia, where questions about compliance with Islamic law pose hurdles for adoption of digital payments
Fanny Potkin / Reuters : Tweets: @f_potkin and @psb_dc Tweets: Fanny Potkin / @f_potkin : My story on how winning over conservative Muslims in Indonesia is both a challenge and multi-billion dollar o...