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Facebook will protect white men but not black children, leaked documents show
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 29.6.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | censorship, Facebook
Summary | Facebook documents have been leaked and revealed that the company will protect white men but not black children. For instance, hate speech against female drivers and black children is considered okay, whereas hate speech against white men can be blocked.
Image Description | Screenshot of a censorship quiz displaying images of a female driver, black children, and white men, and chart/statistics about Facebook users.
Image Tags | chart, female(s), male(s)
Mum leaves million Facebook fans 'crying laughing' with her brutal reviews - and it's all thanks to a 50p bet
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 13.8.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | Facebook, YouTube
Summary | Antonella is a 43-year-old GPs' receptionist, and she's now famous on Facebook and YouTube thanks to her hilarious and uncensored posts. It all started when she decided with a friend to do a funny review online and see who would get the most likes. Fans said they were crying laughing when they saw her review and told her she should do more reviews.
Image Description | Two videos of Antonella and her reviews, and six screenshots of videos of Antonella trying on a bra and testing a cream.
Image Tags | female(s)
Do YOU unfriend people on Facebook? New statistics reveal the average Brit's weekly 'social media cull'
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 4.5.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | Facebook
Summary | According to a new poll, British people remove four Facebook friends a week. Also, they only engage with about 10% of their Facebook friends on the platform. Users said they mostly remove friends from their list if they post too many statuses/pictures. Nowadays it is so easy to form large groups of social connections, but it's also too easy to remove people from those groups. The disposable nature of today's relationships is quite depressing, according to George Charles, (spokesperson for VoucherCodesPro).
Image Description | Photograph of two people with two Facebook signs hiding their faces, woman looking at her smartphone, hands holding a smartphone in front of a Facebook sign, smartphone screen displaying the "facebook"
Image Tags | Facebook, female(s), hand(s), smartphone
Facebook’s censorship of Aboriginal bodies raises troubling ideas of ‘decency’
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 23.3.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | censorship, diversity, Facebook, gender, law
Summary | Facebook does not mind showing Kim Kardashian’s cleavage, but it didn't allow images of topless Aboriginal women. Major social network platforms are led by capitalism, and although they claim they want to create global and equal platforms, not all stories are treated the same way. As a result, On Facebook, images of famous women naked are okay whereas images of other women around the world are deemed “inappropriate”.
Image Description | Photograph of four Aboriginal women
Image Tags | female(s)
How Facebook plans to take over the world
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 23.4.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, virtual reality
Summary | Facebook has been constantly evolving to adapting to current trends. The first stage was "personal"; people would share their thoughts and status. The second stage was pictures, and now it's "instant articles". Facebook has a great capacity for transformation. Facebook also tried to be a news industry, and also set its sights on services such as bookmarking, 360-degree video, customer service robots, payments and virtual reality. Facebook's stage 4 is live video, and stages 5 and 6 might be artificial intelligence and virtual reality.
Image Description | Four photographs of Mark Zuckerberg at conferences, and photograph of attendees at a conference
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)
Munich shooter's meticulous planning revealed: Teenager researched shooting sprees and even hacked into a Facebook account to lure children to McDonald's before murdering nine
Newspaper | Mail Online
Date | 23.7.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | Facebook, threat, youth
Summary | Munich killer created a fake Facebook account to lure children to the McDonald massacre. Sonobly spent months planning his murder; he was obsessed with mass murders. For instance, his Whatsapp profile picture was a picture of Anders Breivik, the Norwegian mass murderer. Sonobly hacked Selina Akim's Facebook account and posted a message saying that there would be free food at the McDonald's restaurant near the Olympic stadium at 4pm.
Image Description | Photograph of the fake Facebook account, portrait of the killer, and several pictures of the massacre site.
Image Tags | Facebook, female(s), male(s)
Merkel says big internet firms 'distort perception': Chancellor demands Facebook and Google make their algorithms public
Newspaper | Mail Online
Date | 28.10.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | Facebook, Google, marketing, politics, privacy
Summary | Merkel wants Facebook and Google to be more transparent and reveal the algorithms that select stories people see. She claimed that those algorithms distort our perception of reality. Internet giants don't agree with that; they said that viewers have access to a wide range of opinions.
Image Description | Photograph of Angela Merket speaking at a conference, photograph of the Facebook logo with the reaction buttons, and Twitter logo.
Image Tags | Facebook, female(s), logo, Twitter
The royal twitterati: how the monarchy learned to love social media
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 16.2.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | Facebook, Instagram, marketing, social media, Twitter, YouTube
Summary | The British royals have a striking social media presence. Experts say it is very well curated with high quality images and videos and very well chosen language. They are currently looking for a new social media employee but the offered salary in no way reflects the huge responsibility of the job.
Image Description | Getty image of the Queen and of Prince Harry getting tested for HIV as a promotion of getting tested.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)
Family ties: how to get parents involved in children's learning
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 24.2.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | childhood, Facebook, school, social media
Summary | It is important to involve parents in their children's education so that it continues after school is over. A way to do this is to assign homework that involves parents or involve parents in a school day. However, not all parents have time for this because they work a lot. Another way to keep parents involved in their children's schoolwork is sharing it with them on social media. There are programs to share photos or classwork videos with parents.
Image Description | Alamy image of a woman and a girl looking at an molecule model.
Image Tags | female(s)
What happens if you're both a man and a woman? Welcome to the 'third sex' generation
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 4.3.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | Facebook, gender
Summary | Facebook lets users choose from over seventy gender identities. Users can also just type in a new tem on how they wish to identify themselves gender-wise. More and more people are now learning about gender fluidity and realize that it is something that they identify with.
Image Description | Portraits of gender fluid celebrities.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)
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