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Sri Lanka Blocked Facebook This Week For Allegedly Spreading Hate Speech And Violence
The government of Sri Lanka ordered internet and mobile service providers to temporarily block Facebook and its subsidiaries WhatsApp and Instagram, as well as separate messaging service Viber, this week as part of a crackdown on what officials said was rampant online hate speech fuelling real-life violence.
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Snapchat, Instagram Pull Giphy Integration After Users Find Extremely Racist GIF
Facebook subsidiary Instagram and stumbling competitor Snapchat have both disabled GIF-embedding service Giphy after an extremely racist image began spreading on the platform, TechCrunch reported.
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Here Are 911 Transcripts Of Some Of The Times Apple Employees Walked Directly Into Glass Walls
Last month, reports emerged that Apple’s new “spaceship” campus in Cupertino, California — which hosts roughly 13,000 employees behind around 3000 giant panes of glass — had resulted in the company’s employees repeatedly injuring themselves by walking straight into the semi-visible walls.
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Facebook Decides You Don’t Need Two News Feeds
It turns out, one of Facebook’s biggest News Feed experiments last year only made the service worse. Last October, the Guardian reported that Facebook was testing significant changes to its News Feed. For users in six countries, Facebook moved nearly all non-promoted posts from pages and publishers out of the main News Feed into a…