Facebook cracks down on discussing ‘hoes’ in gardening group
Facebook censors posts referencing the garden tool known as a “hoe”.
According to the media, there is no hope, only despair
The news media’s sole focus on negativity is causing mass harm to the mental health of the world’s population. This is not necessary and is quite evil. In fact, the damage caused to mental health can itself lead to acts of violence – the media truly does have blood on its hands.
Gallup poll says trust in media falls. Again.
Trust in media falls even more.
Teen blocked from business after facial recognition system falsely flags her
Automated facial recognition has a high false positive rate and amounts to automated racism.
The National Low Income Housing Coalition is out with their annual fake report
Reporters are idiots. They fall for this story every year, year after year. And not one bothers to question the advocacy group’s press release. Not one.
Facebook advertisers not happy as iOS users opt out of tracking
Facebook’s ads aren’t as effective after iOS privacy changes, advertisers say. Source: Facebook advertisers are panicking after iOS cuts off key tracking data | Ars Technica
“Free speech is not an absolute human right”
Member of Facebook’s Content Moderation Board says free speech is not an absolute human right.
“Norway passes law requiring influencers to label retouched photos on social media”
Interesting – retouched photos, posted by advertisers and social media influencers must disclose the retouching. The law, though, does not define re-touching and it is unclear if it applies to exposure, contrast, saturation, sharpness adjustment.
Interesting media omission
CNN left out a very important detail in this brief news report on the sentencing of convicted felon Michael Avenatti.
Should a “Confederate flag” be banned as part of a historical parade float?
Should groups portraying U.S. history be prohibited from displaying the “Confederate flag”?