Published on: 2025-04-21 09:35:41
Anti-vaccine activists with close ties to US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are falsely claiming that the measles public health crisis in Texas is caused by a “bioweapon” targeting the Mennonite community. These activists are now trying to sell their followers a range of pseudoscientific cures—some purportedly powered by artificial intelligence—that supposedly prevent customers from contracting measles. The claims were made in a webinar posted online last week and hosted by Mikki Willis
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-22 23:27:01
Artie Beaty/ZDNET Less than two months after Facebook added a new community notes feature that lets users add context to posts with missing or wrong information, TikTok is doing the same with something called Footnotes. The company announced the feature in a blog post yesterday. Also: How to become a Meta Community Notes editor "Footnotes will draw on the collective knowledge of the TikTok community by allowing people to add relevant information to content on our platform," the post explains
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-24 23:24:22
is a weekend editor who covers the latest in tech and entertainment. He has written news, reviews, and more as a tech journalist since 2020. TikTok has announced “Footnotes,” its own take on the community notes features that started on Twitter and have been spreading to other social networks. As elsewhere, it’s a crowd-sourced approach to moderation — TikTok says contributors will be able to “add relevant information to content on our platform.” US users can apply to become Footnotes contribut
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-24 23:08:58
TikTok is testing a new “Footnotes” feature that works similarly to Community Notes on X. The social network announced on Wednesday that Footnotes will allow users to add additional context and relevant information to videos to help others better understand certain content, starting in the United States. The company says Footnotes will complement its current suite of measures designed to help people understand the reliability of content, such as content labels and its fact-checking program. In
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-01 11:29:52
Western Sydney University (WSU) announced two security incidents that exposed personal information belonging to members of its community. WSU is a prominent Australian institution offering various undergraduate, postgraduate, and research programs across multiple disciplines. It serves a student body of 47,000 and employs over 4,500 permanent and seasonal staff, operating with an annual budget of approximately $600 million. One of the incidents disclosed concerns the compromise of one of the
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-03 23:52:27
The reboot of early-internet social news site Digg is underway. Original founder Kevin Rose and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian have launched an early-access community for some of the first people who signed up after last month’s announcement that the pair had bought Digg and planned to relaunch it as something new. The early-access program is being called “Groundbreakers” and costs $5 to join — a one-time fee that Digg says is about keeping out bots versus making money. In fact, Digg says the
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-09 09:58:00
The era of Facebook, Instagram and Threads using fact-checking to verify information on its platforms is over, as of Monday, April 7, according to Meta's chief global affairs officer Joel Kaplan. He said in a post on X, "By Monday afternoon, our fact-checking program in the US will be officially over. That means no new fact checks and no fact checkers." In early January, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company was going to wind down its decade-old program using third-party fact-checkers appro
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-09 16:18:00
The era of Facebook, Instagram and Threads using fact-checking to verify information on its platforms is over, as of Monday, April 7, according to Meta's chief global affairs officer Joel Kaplan. He said in a post on X, "By Monday afternoon, our fact-checking program in the US will be officially over. That means no new fact checks and no fact checkers." In early January, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company was going to wind down its decade-old program using third-party fact-checkers appro
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-10 07:18:00
The era of Facebook, Instagram and Threads using fact-checking to verify information on its platforms is over, as of Monday, April 7, according to Meta's chief global affairs officer Joel Kaplan. He said in a post on X, "By Monday afternoon, our fact-checking program in the US will be officially over. That means no new fact checks and no fact checkers." In early January, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company was going to wind down its decade-old program using third-party fact-checkers appro
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-11 02:08:00
In brief: Facebook is making one of the biggest changes in a decade later today: it will officially end its fact-checking program in the US. In its place will be the Community Notes feature popularized on Twitter/X. And it's not just happening on Facebook – Instagram and Threads are killing off fact checking, too. "By Monday afternoon, our fact-checking program in the US will be officially over," Meta's recently installed policy chief Joel Kaplan announced in a post on X. "That means no new fac
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-11 07:08:00
In brief: Facebook is making one of the biggest changes in a decade later today: it will officially end its fact-checking program in the US. In its place will be the Community Notes feature popularized on the former Twitter platform, X. And it's not just happening on Facebook -- Instagram and Threads are also killing off fact checking. "By Monday afternoon, our fact-checking program in the US will be officially over," Meta's recently installed policy chief Joel Kaplan announced in a post on X.
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-12 03:28:58
Early this year, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta would be ditching its long-running fact checking program, claiming that it has enabled too much “censorship” on the company’s apps. Now, Meta has set an end date for fact-checking on Facebook, Instagram and Threads (at least for its US users). “By Monday afternoon, our fact-checking program in the US will be officially over,” Meta’s recently elevated policy chief Joel Kaplan announced in a post on X. “That means no new fact checks and no fact
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-12 05:22:06
Cinc A Free-as-in-Beer distribution of the open source software of Chef Software Inc. See goals for details, or follow our blog for updates on the project. The Cinc team is proud to present: Cinc Projects Cinc Client, built from Chef Infra™ Cinc Workstation, built from Chef Workstation™ Cinc Auditor, built from Chef InSpec™ Cinc Server, built from Chef Chef Infra Server™ Coming Soon Cinc Packager, built from Chef Habitat™ Come chat with us! community slack channel #community-distros
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-12 07:01:55
is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Meta’s US fact-checking program will come to an end by Monday afternoon. In a post on X, Meta’s global policy head Joel Kaplan said there will be “no new fact checks and no fact checkers” across Facebook, Instagram, and Threads by that time as the company replaces it with Community Notes. Meta first announced its plans for an X-style Community Note
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-12 15:12:06
The perception of San Francisco has been on the decline for years due to a number of factors. The city’s mayor, Daniel Lurie, joined TechCrunch’s Maxwell Zeff to talk about Lurie’s efforts to turn that around. Lurie highlighted his administrative and on-the-ground efforts in a push for San Francisco to remain the center of the startup community — and AI development in particular
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-16 11:00:13
is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)is shutting down after more than 20 years of hosting its annual challenge for writers. In a video and an email sent to community members, the nonprofit organization explains that it can no longer continue “after years of financial struggles.” Before officially becoming a nonprofit in 2006, NaNoWriMo started o
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-19 23:32:38
NaNoWriMo, a twenty-five-year-old online writing community-turned-nonprofit, announced on Monday evening that it is shutting down. NaNoWriMo — an abbreviation of National Novel Writing Month — is an annual challenge for writers to complete a rough draft of a novel during the month of November. After starting as a Yahoo! mailing list in 1999, the project grew into a self-described “internet-famous” writing challenge with hundreds of thousands of participants over more than two decades. The orga
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-28 15:37:49
C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR Nothing is once again doing its Community Edition project. Members of the community will be able to submit their ideas to build the ultimate version of the Phone 3a. This year’s winners will receive £1,000 ($1,288.76). Nothing did something fun and creative last year by releasing a Phone 2a Plus designed with the help of its community. If you were hoping Nothing would do something like that again for another one of its Android phones, you just got you
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-26 06:17:30
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-30 03:16:45
Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Patty Smith. Patty and her husband enjoy the kind of neighborhood so many of us would like - connected, helpful, fun - but it wasn’t that way two years ago. A simple tradition changed their neighborhood and is a good reminder of how small, consistent actions can have outsize results. It also shows you don’t have to share a kitchen or a roof to live in community. 18 months ago, I wasn’t planning on spending more time hanging out with my neighbors than wit
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Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Patty Smith. Patty and her husband enjoy the kind of neighborhood so many of us would like - connected, helpful, fun - but it wasn’t that way two years ago. A simple tradition changed their neighborhood and is a good reminder of how small, consistent actions can have outsize results. It also shows you don’t have to share a kitchen or a roof to live in community. 18 months ago, I wasn’t planning on spending more time hanging out with my neighbors than wit
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-14 02:07:14
To the people of Mbiabet Esieyere and Mbiabet Udouba in Nigeria’s deep south, sundown would mean children doing their homework by the glow of kerosene lamps, and the faint thrum of generators emanating from homes that could afford to run them. Like many rural communities, these two villages of fishermen and farmers in the community of Mbiabet, tucked away in clearings within a dense palm forest, had never been connected to the country’s national electricity grid. Most of the residents had never
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-17 21:11:44
Meta will start testing its Community Notes model, with which it's replacing human fact checkers , on Facebook, Instagram and Threads in the US on March 18. Notes won't appear publicly on posts right away. The company wants to make sure the writing and rating system is working as intended before the notes start showing up for everyone. Things will work in a similar way to Community Notes on X, Meta says, with the idea that users bring extra context to posts that could use more explanation, clar
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-18 10:19:57
is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Meta will begin testing its X-style Community Notes starting March 18th. The feature will roll out on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads in the US – but Meta won’t publicly publish the notes to start as it tests the Community Notes writing and rating system. Meta first announced plans to replace its fact-checking program with Community Notes in Janua
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-18 14:05:01
Meta's upcoming Community Notes feature for monitoring misinformation through crowdsourcing will use some technology developed by Elon Musk's X for its similar service. On Thursday, Meta revealed in a blog post more details of its new content moderation tool, and said it incorporates the same open-source algorithm that powers X's Community Notes. Meta said that over time it plans to modify the algorithm to better serve its Facebook, Instagram and Threads apps. "As X's algorithm and program i
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-18 14:05:00
Next week, Meta will begin one of the company’s most significant overhauls ever for how it fact-checks information on its platforms. On March 18, Meta will start releasing its version of Community Notes for Facebook, Instagram, and Threads users in the United States. The program copies a crowdsourced fact-checking system that Twitter unveiled in 2021 and that became the sole means of correcting misleading information after Elon Musk turned the platform into X. Meta executives say they’re focus
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-20 10:00:00
Forge, the platform for community-driven game marketing and engagement, today announced Forge Direct, a kind of self-service gamified hub that allows game developers to launch fully customizable, feature-rich community portals. Unlike traditional game websites which typically serve as static landing pages, Forge Direct is an interactive engagement platform complete with quests, loyalty rewards, and direct-to-player commerce that developers can host on their own domain to complement—or even rep
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-25 15:00:35
About Infisical Infisical is the #1 open source secret management platform for developers. In other words, we help organizations manage API-keys, DB access tokens, certificates, and other credentials across all parts of their infra! In fact, we process over 1.5B of such secrets per month. Our customers already include some of the largest public enterprises and some of the fastest-growing startups. Developers love us and every day our community is growing stronger! Join us on a mission to make
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-26 11:58:00
NurPhoto/Getty Images Instagram has been launching a flurry of new features lately. Some of these mirror TikTok features, such as Edits -- Instagram's version of the CapCut video editing app. Others -- like profile cards -- are geared toward professionalizing the app for small businesses. Also, updated algorithms recommend more original content, a benefit to creators. Now, Meta's social media platform is testing a new Community Chat feature. Also: Targeting TikTok, Meta's Instagram may turn Re
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-26 16:58:00
NurPhoto/Getty Images Instagram has been launching a flurry of new features lately. Some of these mirror TikTok features, such as Edits -- Instagram's version of the CapCut video editing app. Others -- like profile cards -- are geared toward professionalizing the app for small businesses. Also, updated algorithms recommend more original content, a benefit to creators. Now, Meta's social media platform is testing a new Community Chat feature. Also: Targeting TikTok, Meta's Instagram may turn Re
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