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Verizon pulls ads from Facebook over inaction on hate speech (Guardian, The)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 06/26/2020 - 06:30Podcast: Is spyware technology helping governments hack phones? (Guardian, The)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 06/22/2020 - 06:04BT and Vodafone told to stock up on Huawei kit over US sanctions (Guardian, The)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Fri, 06/19/2020 - 16:02Zoom will provide end-to-end encryption to all users after privacy backlash (Guardian, The)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Wed, 06/17/2020 - 17:21Give 1 million UK children reliable broadband or risk harming their education, MPs say
The government must urgently ensure that more than 1 million children have reliable internet access at home or risk irreparable harm to their education, a cross-party group of Members Parliament and former ministers has said.
Facebook says it doesn’t need news stories for its business and won’t pay to share them in Australia (Guardian, The)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 06/15/2020 - 06:31Opinion: One man stands between Joe Biden and the US presidency – Mark Zuckerberg (Guardian, The)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 06/08/2020 - 06:31Zuckerberg: Facebook will review policies after backlash over Trump posts
Mark Zuckerberg said Facebook will review its content policies after facing widespread backlash, including from its own employees, over the decision to leave up controversial posts from President Donald Trump. Facebook will look at improving content policies while also building products to advance racial justice, the CEO said in response to the protests in the United States.
Covid-19 makes it clearer than ever: access to the internet should be a universal right
Billions of people don’t have the option to turn to the web in times of need or normality. A gross digital divide holds back almost half the planet when it most needs the web. This divide is most acutely experienced in developing countries.