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Das Monster lebt

(The monster is alive)

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Newspaper | Die Zeit
Date | 31.5.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | censorship, cyberbullying, Facebook, law, threat
Summary | Facebook is hiring thousands of new employees to battle cyberbullying on their platform and to remove offensive material as quickly as possible. But a couple thousand are not very many people to combat wrongdoings of 2 billion users. German politicians are trying to make Facebook comply with local laws about removing illegal content from the internet but Facebook is nowhere near fulfilling those requirements.
Image Description | A photograph of a man holding a smartphone showing the Facebook logo and the face of a monster.
Image Tags | Facebook, hand(s), logo, male(s), smartphone

Tailandia logra censurar en Facebook un vídeo de su rey

(Thailand was able to censor a video of its king on Facebook)

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Newspaper | El País
Date | 19.5.2017
Language | Spanish
Country | Spain
Topic Tags | censorship, Facebook, law
Summary | Thailand asked Facebook to withdraw 131 pages that contain "illegal" content (i.e. pages that violate strict laws concerning the royal family). Indeed, the royal family should not be criticized. One of the videos posted online showed the current king, Maha Vajiralongkorn, displaying his tattooed back and arms. Facebook accepted to withdraw the illegal content.
Image Description | Photograph of a Facebook profile with the picture of Mark Zuckerberg.
Image Tags | Facebook, male(s)

Eine Welt aus Daten

(A world made of data)

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Newspaper | Die Zeit
Date | 20.10.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | (mental) health, digitized education, language threat, law, privacy, threat, translation
Summary | Big data can revolutionize various aspects of our lives: cancer diagnostics can profit from it, e-learning can be tailored towards each particular student's needs, traffic can be managed more efficiently, the police can patrol more in high-risk areas and times, and real-time translation can be available on all smartphones. This could eradicate the need to learn foreign languages. There are critics however, because all of these improvements open up new questions about privacy and data exploitation.
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