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Indivisible is training an army of volunteers to neutralize political misinformation

The grassroots Democratic company Indivisible is releasing its own group of stealth fact-checkers to press back versus false information —– an experiment in what it may appear like to train up a political messaging infantry and send them out into the details trenches. Called the ““ Truth Brigade, ” the corps of volunteers will discover …

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Facebook trails expanding portability tools ahead of FTC hearing

Facebook is considering expanding the types of data its users are able to port directly to alternative platforms. In comments on portability sent to US regulators ahead of an FTC hearing on the topic next month, Facebook says it intends to expand the scope of its data portability offerings “in the coming months”. It also offers …

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Instagram’s hashtag searches gave Trump better treatment than Biden

Instagram obviously managed look for popular hashtags associated with the 2 governmental prospects in a different way, pointing Joe Biden search questions towards frequently unfavorable associated hashtags while making no such ideas in matching searches referring to President Trump. A brand-new report by the Tech Transparency Project information the weird platform habits. In the report, …

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Daily Crunch: Facebook faces an advertiser revolt

Facebook takes (small) steps to improve its content policies as advertisers join a broad boycott, founder Alexis Ohanian is leaving Initialized Capital and Waze gets a new look. Here’s your Daily Crunch for June 29, 2020. 1. As advertisers revolt, Facebook commits to flagging ‘newsworthy’ political speech that violates policy In a live-streamed segment of …

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Disinformation ‘works better than censorship,’ warns internet freedom report

An increase in social networks monitoring, warrantless searches of tourists’ gadgets at the border, and the continued spread of disinformation are amongst the reasons the U.S. has actually decreased in web liberty rankings, according to a leading non-profit guard dog. Although Freedom House stated that the U.S. takes pleasure in a few of the best …

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Daily Crunch: Zuckerberg has thoughts on free speech

The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here. 1. Zuckerberg on Chinese censorship: Is that the internet we want? The Facebook CEO spoke yesterday at Georgetown University, sharing his thoughts …

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