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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau slams Facebook for blocking Canada wildfire news

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is accusing Facebook of putting profits over people’s safety during Canada’s wildfire emergencies

The Independent UK

‘I’m thousands of pounds out of pocket after being scammed on Facebook Marketplace’

Beauty therapist Lucy Fletcher forked out £3,600 for a new office space, which was never delivered by the seller

The Independent UK

Why are 'photo dumps' so popular? A digital communications expert explains

It’s summer 2009. You’ve been to a “campout” with your school friends in someone’s back garden and taken a bunch of out-of-focus pictures on your digital camera. The next day, you dig out your trusty USB cable and upload the photos to your laptop, sharing every single one, without even…

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Meta's new 'in-person time policy' will crack down on remote work rebels

Employees who don’t comply with the new rules could face termination or see their performance reviews impacted.

Fortune

France's first social network Skyblog shuts down after 20 years

One of France’s earliest social networks, Skyblog, is closing down for good this week. Launched in 2002, the blogging site gave millions of French internet users their first taste of interacting online before it fell out of fashion with the arrival of bigger competitors from the US.

Radio France Internationale

"Sacramento Black Lives Matter Founder Settles Libel Lawsuit with Video Apology"

From Thursday's story in the Sacramento Bee (Sam Stanton) (link added): More than two years after a Sacramento-area businesswoman was falsely accused of posting racist and hateful comments on the Facebook page for Sacramento's Black Lives Matter chapter, her lawsuit against BLM Sacramento has been settled with the group's founder…

Reason

Canada wildfires: British Columbia in state of emergency while 19,000 flee Yellowknife fire

Premier says days ahead will be ‘extremely challenging’, as firefighters in neighbouring Northwest Territories fight to save city

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Canada wildfire evacuees can't get news media on Facebook and Instagram. Some find workarounds

Canadian news outlets have been blocked on Facebook and Instagram because of a dispute with the Canadian government

The Independent UK

Canada fire crews battle to stop wildfire from engulfing city of Yellowknife

Firefighters work around clock to spread retardant and dig fire breaks as thousands evacuate capital of Northwest Territories

The Guardian - US

Mother reacts to video of her breastfeeding taken without her knowledge

Mother says she couldn’t believe someone was upset with her for ‘feeding [her] child’

The Independent UK

How is Meta’s news ban affecting communications amid Canada wildfires?

Concern over shortage of reliable news after articles blocked on Facebook in response to tech law

The Guardian - UK

Yellowknife wildfire: communication issues and Facebook news ban hamper evacuation efforts

Canada’s ongoing fight with social media company Meta and the resulting ban has led to difficulties with staying on top of information

The Guardian - AU

Mother discovers a video of her breastfeeding was posted online without her knowledge

Mother says she couldn’t believe someone was upset with her for ‘feeding [her] child’

The Independent UK

Facebook "Tagging" = Communication with the Tagged Person, for Purposes of Restraining Order

From Tuesday's decision of the Texas Court of Appeals (Amarillo) in Boes v. State, written by Justice Alex Yarbrough, and joined by Chief Justice Brian Quinn and Justice Larry Doss: [Following an arrest of Boes for assaulting his then-wife, a court issued an emergency protective order that] prohibited Appellant from…

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France 24

Watch out for these images fuelling a conspiracy theory about the Hawaii wildfires

In the wake of the fires that tore across the Hawaiian island of Maui on August 8, a number of images have been circulating on social media. The unrelated videos have been fuelling a conspiracy theory, born in the 2000s, that says wildfires are caused by laser weapons known as…

Fortune

Mark Zuckerberg's intense exercise routine from Brazilian Jiu-jitsu to a strength circuit in honor of a Navy Seal

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg fights three to four times a week.

The Texas Tribune

Texas counties don’t have the power to ban solar farms, attorney general finds

The opinion comes as communities across the country fight solar and wind development, which play an important role in slowing climate change but use a lot of land.

Fortune

Are Hawaii’s tech landowners stepping up for Maui?

As the fires in Maui ravage the island, billionaire residents like Salesforce’s Marc Benioff and Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg are in the spotlight, raising questions about how they’re using their funds to protect the island.

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Evening Standard

X is accused of slowing down content from sites Elon Musk doesn’t like

Users were reportedly forced to wait longer to view links to The New York Times and Instagram

Fortune

Twitter was reportedly throttling traffic to sites Elon didn’t like, then backtracked as soon as it was caught

The New York Times and Facebook were subject to delay.

The Guardian - UK

CEO regrets her firm took on Facebook moderation work after staff ‘traumatised’

Outsourcer Sama facing legal cases brought by Kenya-based employees alleging exposure to graphic content

Newslaundry

Twitter ‘delays’ access to news websites that drew ‘Musk’s ire’, later revokes

Elon Musk’s X, formerly known as Twitter, had reportedly delayed access to links to the New York Times, Reuters, and its rival apps and websites, including Facebook, Instagram, Bluesky and Substack – allegedly targeting companies that have “drawn the ire” of Musk, the Washington Post reported.

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Aussie Mum Kylee Enwright Has Passed Away 3 Months After Fall In Thailand Left Her In A Coma

“Kylee passed away peacefully surrounded by her loved ones,” her husband Paul Enwright wrote on Facebook.

Fortune

Will they or won't they? The clichéd dance of two tech titans

Whether or not the Musk-Zuckerberg cage fight actually happens, the spectacle so far appears to have accomplished an improbable result: It's improved the Facebook founder's bruised public image.

TechRadar

Meta hits up travel influencers to make Netflix reality TV game show

Meta's making a Netflix reality TV show to help boost Vietnamese tourism and its own video streaming business.

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