How Facebook algorithms promote hate and toxic content
Prabir Purkayastha | peoplesdispatch.org | 2021-10-08
Whistleblower Frances Haugen has revealed hard evidence–internal Facebook documents–that show it knew its algorithms promote dangerous content but did nothing about it so that it could maximize its advertising revenue.
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Blowing the Whistle at Facebook
Binoy Kampmark | counterpunch.org | 2021-10-08
The only surprise was that it did not come sooner. Big Tech whistleblowers are not exactly running out of the offices of Silicon Valley, so it was with some excitement that Facebook could produce a person willing enough to show us the laundry, with the dirt still caking the content. And the laundry in question…
counterpunch.org/2021/10/08/blowing-the-whistle-at-facebook/
The True Face of Facebook
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2021-10-08
@crg_globalresearch. " The …
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Mayo Clinic Minute: What to do if your child has a bellyache
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2021-10-08
Kids are back in the classroom, and a common back-to-school sickness is viral gastroenteritis, or stomach flu. It's an intestinal infection marked by watery diarrhea, abdominal cramps, nausea or vomiting, and sometimes fever. Watch: The Mayo Clinic Minute youtu.be/jwxQ2L4ZVXE Journalists: Broadcast-quality video (0: 58) is in the downloads at the end of this post. Please "Courtesy: Mayo Clinic News Network." Read the script. If your child is showing symptoms of a stomach bug, such as vomiting…
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Mayo Clinic Minute: Why breast cancer screening is important
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2021-10-08
It's estimated that 1 in 8 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in her lifetime and 1 in 39 women will die from breast cancer. It's the most diagnosed cancer among women in the U.S., and it's now the most common cancer globally.That's why regular breast cancer screening is so important, says Dr. Christine Klassen, a Mayo Clinic Breast Clinic physician.Watch The Mayo Clinic Minute. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XKd_sVm7dw Journalists: Broadcast-quality video pkg (1: 06) is in the…
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How Facebook's Quest for Profits Is Paved on Hate and Lies
Brittani Banks | independentmediainstitute.org | 2021-10-07
Facebook's former employee Frances Haugen, in an interview on "60 Minutes," explained to host Scott Pelley that the social media giant has conducted internal experiments that demonstrate just how quickly and efficiently its users are driven down rabbit holes of white supremacist beliefs. The 37-year-old data scientist who resigned from Facebook earlier this year and … Continue reading How Facebook's Quest for Profits Is Paved on Hate and Lies…
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Blowing the Whistle at Facebook
Binoy Kampmark | dissidentvoice.org | 2021-10-07
The only surprise was that it did not come sooner. Big Tech whistleblowers are not exactly running out of the offices of Silicon Valley, so it was with some excitement that Facebook could produce a person willing enough to show us the laundry, with the dirt still caking the content. And the laundry in question …
dissidentvoice.org/2021/10/blowing-the-whistle-at-facebook/
Private Facebook Group that Organized the July Protests in Cuba Plans Bigger Ones Soon
Alan MacLeod | orinocotribune.com | 2021-10-07
By Alan Macleod — Oct 5, 2021 | The involvement of foreign nationals in the domestic affairs of Cuba is on a level that can scarcely be conceived of in the United States. | HAVANA –After gaining access to their private Facebook group, MintPress can reveal that the people who sparked the July 11 protests in Cuba are planning similar actions for October and November. | The group, La Villa del Humor, is widely credited…
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Blowing the Whistle at Facebook
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2021-10-07
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Blowing the Whistle at Facebook
Binoy Kampmark | dissidentvoice.org | 2021-10-07
The only surprise was that it did not come sooner. Big Tech whistleblowers are not exactly running out of the offices of Silicon Valley, so it was with some excitement that Facebook could produce a person willing enough to show us the laundry, with the dirt still caking the content. And the laundry in question …
dissidentvoice.org/2021/10/blowing-the-whistle-at-facebook/
Washington-backed groups plotting overthrow of Cuban government
Steve Sweeney | peoplesworld.org | 2021-10-07
Washington-backed anti-government forces are plotting a new series of protests in Cuba over the next two months, according to information posted on a private Facebook group. MintPress News discovered that the organizations behind July's riots in the capital Havana are organizing a general strike for Oct. 11, the day after Cuban Independence Day. This will …
peoplesworld.org/article/washington-backed-groups-plotting-overthrow-of-cuban-government/
Facebook: The New Evil Empire?
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By Tim GRAHAM | In the last few years, Facebook has become Public Enemy No. 1 in the media's imagination, and Mark Zuckerberg is suddenly the creepy James Bond villain. Celebrated PBS filmmaker Ken Burns even ranted on a podcast that Zuckerberg was an "enemy of the state" who should be in jail. | After Facebook went down for six hours on Oct. 4, CBS late-night "comedian" Stephen Colbert joked, "Facebook did not say what might be causing the outage. Now, I'm no computer expert, but my theory is: A just God?" | It does not matter one iota that Facebook employees donated 90% of their political money to the Democrats…
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Opposition mounts among Deere workers to UAW information blackout in run-up to Sunday contract vote
wsws.org | 2021-10-07