Education union chiefs have today demanded an overhaul of next year’s GCSE and A-Level exams over fears coronavirus could cut school contact time and called for an emphasis shift away from end-of-year exams – because students find them ‘too stressful’. Bosses at the National Education Union (NEU), the UK’s largest teaching union, have written to … Read more
Facebook has been accused of ‘actively promoting’ Holocaust denial on its platform, in a new report by a British think-tank. Researchers from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, which works to counter extremism, found that people who had ‘liked’ Holocaust denial content on Facebook were directed to more of the same by the site’s algorithm. The … Read more
BREAKING NEWS: James Murdoch resigns from board of News Corp citing ‘disagreements over certain editorial content published by the company’s news outlets’ James Murdoch sent his letter of resignation from the News Corp board Friday He cited disagreements over ‘certain editorial content’ published by the company’s news outlets as his reason for departure News Corp … Read more
March, 20 2019 – Google fined £1.27bn for breaching EU competition laws July, 18 2018 – EU antitrust regulators hand down a $5 billion (£3.8bn / €4.3bn) fine to Google after a three-year long investigation. June 27, 2017 – EU fines Google $2.84 billion (£2.1bn / €2.42bn) for thwarting rivals of shopping comparison websites. July 14, … Read more
Labour boycotts Facebook for a month over failure to remove racist and conspiracy theory content after death of George Floyd Labour has imposed a month-long boycott on Facebook over hate speech row No advertising placed on the site in solidarity with Black Lives Matter protests Sir Keir Starmer has ‘taken the knee’ to demonstrate support … Read more
Facebook has made a series of decisions that undermined civil rights, including allowing posts from President Donald Trump that violate the values of the leading social network, an independent audit report said Wednesday. The audit commissioned by Facebook in 2018 found the California giant had taken ‘important steps forward in building a long-term civil rights … Read more
TikTok is STILL spying on iPhone users by secretly reading content saved to clipboard, devices running on the beta version of Apple’s iOS 14 have revealed Earlier this year TikTok was found to secretly read users’ clipboards The firm vowed to stop accessing clipboards, but a new report finds it has not Users testing Apple’s … Read more
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced new content policies for the platform, including tighter restrictions on advertising and labels for ‘harmful’ posts from public figures, following an advertising boycott campaign. Zuckerberg said in a Facebook Live video on Friday that the company would begin labeling ‘harmful’ content from politicians that remains ‘newsworthy’. Though he did … Read more
Married At First Sight’s Natasha Spencer apologises for posting a ‘triggering’ video of her boyfriend tying her up and throwing milk at her By Monique Friedlander For Daily Mail Australia Published: 04:15 BST, 24 June 2020 | Updated: 04:37 BST, 24 June 2020 Married At First Sight‘s Natasha Spencer has apologised to her Instagram followers … Read more
To be honest, I don’t remember the first time I watched an execution. When you’ve seen so many that they start to blur into one, it’s impossible to remember the first. Then there’s the animal cruelty, torture and sickening pornography I’ve witnessed. You must think I’m some sort of twisted individual with disturbing online tastes. … Read more