| Date | Title | Description |
| 16.12.2022 | "Stop Human Asteroid" Avaaz calls for action to stop extinction crisis as COP15 reaches endgame | Jurassic Park actor James Cromwell joins Avaaz and giant dinosaur to resist asteroids with faces of world leaders from Argentina, Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, Japan, UK
/EIN News/ -- MONTREAL, Dec. 15, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Protestors... |
| 19.08.2020 | Avaaz: Facebook’s algorithm drove 3.8 billion views of health misinformation | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Despite Facebook’s efforts to combat fake news an... |
| 19.08.2020 | Avaaz: Facebook’s algorithm drove 3.8 billion views of health misinformation | Despite Facebook’s efforts to combat fake news and propaganda, the social network has enabled 3.8 billion views of health misinformation in the past year, according to a new report from Avaaz. The global citizens’ movement that monitors ele... |
| 06.11.2019 | Avaaz: Facebook will see a ‘tidal wave’ of fake news ahead of the 2020 elections | Facebook has already powered 158 million views of fake U.S. political news in 2019 and is poised to see an explosion of disinformation next year that would dwarf the 2016 elections, according to a new study.
Avaaz, a global citizens’ moveme... |
| 06.11.2019 | Avaaz: Facebook will see a ‘tidal wave’ of fake news ahead of the 2020 elections | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Facebook has already powered 158 million views of... |
| 27.05.2019 | Facebook still can’t control the far-right political propaganda monster it built | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
News about Facebook in the week leading up to the... |
| 27.05.2019 | Facebook still can’t control the far-right political propaganda monster it built | News about Facebook in the week leading up to the European Union Parliamentary elections reinforced the image of a company unable to control a platform that has been hijacked by right-wing extremists.
In the U.S., pundits, politicians, and ... |
| 26.04.2019 | Spanish WhatsApp users reportedly flooded with ‘disinformation and hate’ ahead of elections | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
WhatsApp users in Spain are being subjected to di... |
| 01.03.2016 | 6 Hong Kong Eco Petitions You Need To Sign NOW! | 7 Mins Read
It’s no secret that Hong Kong could do better on the environmental front. We don’t do enough to protect our country parks, or our heritage buildings, or our indigenous animal species. The road to change is a long and hard one. M... |
| 30.06.2015 | PowerToFly Raises $6.5 Million To Bridge Hiring’s Gender Gap | Bridging tech’s gender diversity gap one job placement at a time, PowerToFly, the online hiring platform for women, has raised $6.5 million in its latest round of funding.
The company — founded by Katharine Zaleski, a former manager at The ... |
| 19.03.2014 | Brazil’s ‘Constitution Of The Internet’ Puts Net Neutrality In The Spotlight | Editor’s note: Julie Ruvolo is a freelance writer and editor of RedLightR.io and RioChromatic.com.
Brazil’s Congress is days away from voting on Marco Civil, the country’s first major Internet legislation, and the big issue at stake is net ... |
| 05.08.2013 | After Glowing Plant Project, Kickstarter Bans Offering Genetically Modified Organisms as Rewards | (Photo: Kickstarter)
Futurists on Reddit are up in arms about a recent update to Kickstarter’s project guidelines that states that creators can’t offer “genetically modified organisms” to backers as a reward for donating to the project.
The... |
| 13.03.2013 | GoogleReaderpocalypse. For Real This Time. | Don’t be evil? If that’s the unofficial Google motto, then the company has failed to deliver today. Among the products Google just announced it plans to sunset (read: kill off), beloved feed-reading service Google Reader is now on the chopp... |
| 16.07.2012 | Is The Peter Sunde Petition Offensive, Inflammatory or Objectionable? | For users of phpBB-powered forums during the last decade, member polls were an everyday occurrence. Any user could start a poll, and as a result many useful discussions were enjoyed.
Some users would also start trivial and frivolous polls, ... |
| 16.07.2012 | Is A Petition Calling For A Pardon Of The Pirate Bay's Peter Sunde 'Offensive'? | This is a little strange. We recently wrote about Peter Sunde’s request for a pardon in which he lays out a fairly compelling argument for how the Swedish judicial system was railroaded into convicting him. Soon after that, a petition appea... |
| 14.07.2012 | Ten Thousands Back Pirate Bay Founder’s Pardon Plea | Last weekend Pirate Bay “founder” (or spokesperson really) Peter Sunde submitted an emotional plea for pardon to the Swedish authorities.
After being convicted for his role in operating The Pirate Bay, Sunde should soon serve eight month ja... |
| 01.05.2012 | What the frak is CISPA? | There's something really troubling about CISPA. While the Internet rallied against SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and Protect IP, including boycotts, there is near silence about the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act. This lack of... |
| 15.04.2012 | What You Need to Know About CISPA | Battle lines are being drawn over the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2011 (CISPA). It’s a bill that would make it easier for private companies and the U.S. government to share user information concerning possible cyber thr... |
| 18.01.2012 | Google Collected 4.5 Million Anti-SOPA Signatures Today | Google generally gets in hot water when it is thought to be abusing its pole position in the search industry. But it’s no use denying that while some moves skirt the edges of abusing monopoly, others are more than welcome. During natural di... |
| - | Comissão do Senado aprova isenção de impostos para startups; entenda | O caminho para a obtenção da isenção de impostos para as startups ainda é longo, mas um novo passo foi dado ontem.
A Comissão de Ciência, Tecnologia, Inovação, Comunicação e Informática, do Senado, aprovou o projeto PLS 321/2012, que instit... |
| - | Projeto de lei que tramita pelo Congresso pede isenção de impostos para startups; ABS abre petição para apoiar iniciativa | Lucas Bispo de Oliveira e Murilo Medeiros, criadores do projeto de lei, em imagem da agência UnB
Criado originalmente por dois estudantes da UnB, um projeto de lei que prevê isenção de impostos para startups agora tramita pelo Congresso bra... |
| - | Comissão do Senado aprova isenção de impostos para startups; entenda | O caminho para a obtenção da isenção de impostos para as startups ainda é longo, mas um novo passo foi dado ontem.
A Comissão de Ciência, Tecnologia, Inovação, Comunicação e Informática, do Senado, aprovou o projeto PLS 321/2012, que instit... |
| - | Украинские IT-специалисты записали обращение к западным коллегам в поддержку мира в стране | Украинские IT-специалисты записали обращение к западным коллегам в поддержку мира в стране
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Украинские IT-специалисты из Львова, Харькова, Киева и Тернополя записали видеообращение в поддержку мира и... |
| - | Projeto de lei que tramita pelo Congresso pede isenção de impostos para startups; ABS abre petição para apoiar iniciativa | Lucas Bispo de Oliveira e Murilo Medeiros, criadores do projeto de lei, em imagem da agência UnB
Criado originalmente por dois estudantes da UnB, um projeto de lei que prevê isenção de impostos para startups agora tramita pelo Congresso bra... |
