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Twitter has accused the US president of making false claims, in one of the app's personal articles masking the news.

The cross - which efficiently accuses the chief of mendacity - refers to a tweet through Donald Trump about his first defence secretary.

Mr Trump had tweeted that he had given James Mattis the nickname "Mad Dog" and later fired him.

But Twitter's article says that the former widespread resigned, and his nickname preceded Trump's presidency.

It follows final week's explosive confrontation, which noticed Twitter fact-check two of President Trump's tweets and label any other as glorifying violence.

The state-of-the-art disagreement was once precipitated by using a strongly-worded announcement issued by way of General Mattis ultimate night, in which he criticised the president's managing of the protests that observed the killing of George Floyd.

Gen Mattis described Donald Trump as "the first president in my lifetime who does no longer attempt to unite the American human beings - does now not even fake to try. Instead, he tries to divide us."

The president fired returned shortly in a tweet pronouncing that the one factor he and predecessor Barack Obama had in frequent was once "we each had the honour of firing Jim Mattis, the world's most overrated general. I requested for his letter of resignation and felt true about it".

"His nickname used to be 'Chaos', which I did not like, and modified it to 'Mad Dog'," he added.

Twitter later posted what it calls a Moment, a precis of a information story that you can see when you press the platform's search button. It has additionally been promoted inside the What's Happening field that seems on Twitter's website.

The article says that "Mattis resigned from the position... after the administration determined to withdraw US troops from Syria", and attributes the reality to a file by means of the Associated Press information agency.

 The National Review, the Washington Post and The Dispatch as having written that the nickname 'Mad Dog' had been used earlier than Trump's presidency, with posted references courting lower back to 2004.

Moments are curated by using an interior group at Twitter. They furnish a precis of a current improvement before imparting some associated tweets.

This is now not the first time the device has been used to name out Donald Trump.

In March 2019, it said the president had misidentified a co-founder of Greenpeace, and in April 2020 it stated he had falsely claimed he should pressure states to reopen at some point of the Covid-19 pandemic.

But what is fascinating right here is that Twitter has chosen to increase the temperature of its conflict with the president over what ought to be viewed as a incredibly minor issue.

It used to be on 20 December 2018 that Gen Mattis introduced his resignation, high quality from 28 February 2019.

A livid Mr Trump then introduced his defence secretary was once going from 1 January and cited he'd surely fired him. So you ought to at least argue that, as in many cases, there is a blurry line between a resignation and a firing.

Perhaps Twitter's chief govt Jack Dorsey is searching on, with a diploma of schadenfreude, at what has befell in current days at Facebook.

There, Mark Zuckerberg's willpower now not to observe Twitter's lead and take some form of motion over the president's posts has sparked open revolt.

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Facebook staff, who before would solely grumble anonymously about the company's practices, have put their names to statements deploring Mr Zuckerberg's failure to act.

This morning, almost three dozen former employees, together with some who had helped write the unique suggestions on what can and can't be posted, posted an open letter accusing Mr Zuckerberg of a "betrayal" of Facebook's ideals.

Last week, it felt as although Twitter may be placing its future in hazard by way of taking on the president.

This week, it feels as although Mr Zuckerberg's failure to act may depart him going through an even larger disaster than the Cambridge Analytica scandal. 

Last week, Twitter hid US President Donald Trump’s tweet over threatening Minnesota protestors with army action. The social community has taken comparable motion to Rep. Matt Gaetz’s tweet that categorised “Antifa as terrorists” and requested to “hunt them down like we do these in the Middle East”

Several politicians and coverage advocates requested the organization to take the tweet down immediately. Before Twitter marked the tweet, it used to be retweeted over 12,000 times. Just like Trump’s tweet, this tweet hasn’t been eliminated from the platform due to the fact of its newsworthiness.

In a statement, a Twitter spokesperson stated the tweet was once in violation of the company’s glorification of violence policy.

Matt Gaetz ✔@mattgaetz
Their warning is my badge of honor.

Antifa is a terrorist organization, encouraging riots that hurt Americans.

Our government should hunt them down. Twitter should stop enabling them.

I’ll keep saying it. https://twitter.com/politicopro/status/1267614406847987717 …
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After Twitter marked his tweet, Gaetz stated “their warning is my badge of honor.”
Americans are maintaining protests all over the united states after an African-American man, George Floyd, used to be killed by using a former Minnesota police officer. Several political leaders, such as Trump, have billed some protestors as Antifa (anti-fascist movement) terrorists.

In the previous few weeks, Twitter has been proactive in marking tweets that unfold misinformation or glorify violence. Last week, the agency embedded fact-checking hyperlinks to some of Trump’s tweets. In response, Trump signed an government order that eliminates a protected harbor for social media groups and holds them accountable for content material hosted on their platforms.
Social-media groups are failing to clamp down on scammers promoting people's non-public small print thru their platforms, an investigation from customer watchdog Which? has shown.

It observed 50 profiles, pages and companies on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram imparting stolen credit-card details, and Netflix and Uber Eats accounts.

And a great deal of the content material had remained on the structures after being reported.

Facebook and Twitter stated such pastime used to be no longer tolerated and would be removed.
The investigation, carried out earlier than the coronavirus lockdown, located one Facebook publish revealing a Yorkshire man's:

 full name
date of birth
address
mobile cellphone number
credit-card number, protection code and expiry data
bank identify and type code

According to Which?, the put up had been stay for 4 months.

Which? stated it had stated it to Facebook however the socialcommunity had refused to dispose of it due to the fact it did no longer breach its neighborhood standards.
Only after Which? had requested a assessment of that choice had the
submit been eliminated - and, even then, the crew in which it had been posted had remained active.

In response, Facebook, which additionally owns Instagram, it had now acted to take down all the content.

"Fraudulent endeavor is no longer tolerated on our systems and we have eliminated the agencies and profiles flagged to us through Which?... for violating our policies."

"We proceed to make investments in humans and technological know-how to perceive and get rid of fraudulent content material and we urge humans to record any suspicious content material to us so we can take action."

Scam tactics
On Twitter, investigators determined fraudsters offering:

the full credit-card small print of any person with a "£13,000 plus balance" for £100 - or three units of card small print for £200
a pretend passport for £3,000
Which? stated it had observed the content material without a doubt via looking out for slang phrases for fraud.

And Twitter's algorithms had then even cautioned comparable debts with the aid of its "Who to follow" section.

Twitter stated it used to be towards its regulations "to use rip-off procedures to gain cash or non-public monetary information".

"Where we become aware of violations of our rules, we take strong enforcement action," it said.

"We're continuously adapting to awful actors' evolving strategies and will continue to iterate and enhance upon our polices as the enterprise evolves."

All debts furnished to it through Which? have now been suspended.

Which? Money editor Jenny Ross said: "It's spectacular that social media websites make it so convenient for criminals to exchange people's non-public and economic information, mainly as fraud is such a customary crime that can have devastating consequences."
She known as on Facebook and Twitter "to take greater motion to forestall their websites turning into a secure haven for scammers" and "work with the economic enterprise and police to tackle serious flaws with their platforms". 

Facebook, Twitter, Google rebel against Pakistan's new digital law

Through a group called the Asia Internet Coalition (AIC), the digital giants wrote a scathing letter to Pakistan PM Imran Khan. AIC has called the rules 'vague and arbitrary in nature'

Digital media giants Facebook, Twitter and Google have threatened  to suspend services in Pakistan after Prime Minister Imran Khan's government gave approval to new social media regulations in the country.
Through a group called the Asia Internet Coalition (AIC), the digital giants wrote a scathing letter to Pakistan PM Imran Khan. AIC has called the rules "vague and arbitrary in nature". The companies warned that "the rules as currently written would make it extremely difficult for AIC Members to make their services available to Pakistani users and businesses".
The Asia Internet Coalition is an industry association that promotes the understanding and resolution of internet policy issues in the Asia Pacific region.
"We are not against regulation of social media, and we acknowledge that Pakistan already has an extensive legislative framework governing online content. However, these rules fail to address crucial issues such as internationally recognized rights to individual expression and privacy," AIC added.
As per the new rules, Pakistan has made it mandatory for social media companies to open offices in Islamabad (capital of Pakistan). Besides, the country has instructed these digital giants to build data servers to store information and take down content upon identification of authorities.
Besides, through this new digital censorship law, authorities will be able to take action against its citizens if found guilty of targeting state institutions at home and abroad on social media.
Failure to comply with the government will result in hefty fines and possible termination of services.
"In case of failure to comply within 15 days, it would have the power to suspend their services or impose a fine worth up to 500 million Pakistani rupees".
On Friday, Facebook announced that it would further attempt to limit coronavirus-related chaos on its platform by banning commerce listings and advertisements for medical face masks.
“We’re monitoring COVID19 closely and will make necessary updates to our policies if we see people trying to exploit this public health emergency,” Facebook Director of Product Management Rob Leathern said in an update on Twitter. “We’ll start rolling out this change in the days ahead.”
“We are temporarily banning advertisements and commerce listings that sell medical face masks,” a Facebook spokesperson told TNT. “Our teams are monitoring the COVID19 situation closely and will make necessary updates to our policies if we see people trying to exploit this public health emergency.”
Facebook will also limit any ads for medical products that imply a limited supply or create a sense of urgency among potential buyers, as well as ads that make guarantees for COVID-19 “cures” or prevention. Along with those changes, in the next few days Facebook will begin blocking coronavirus-themed groups and pages from its algorithmic recommendations.
As fears of a novel coronavirus epidemic swell worldwide, online platforms have scrambled to stop price gouging and health misinformation. Amazon is working to eradicate “high priced offers” on products like hand sanitizer and face masks from its marketplace, while Ebay has banned all listings for N95 and N100 face masks, hand sanitizer and alcohol wipes. The online auction site will also reject any listings exploiting terms like “COVID-19” and “coronavirus.”
On Wednesday, Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) wrote an open letter to Amazon’s Jeff Bezos expressing concern over “continued reports of price gouging and a lack of transparency” on the site.
“No one should be allowed to reap a windfall from fear and human suffering,” Markey wrote, adding that online retailers have a “particular responsibility” to protect consumers in the midst of the coronavirus outbreak.
Earlier this week, Facebook announced that coronavirus-related searches on its platform would be greeted with an automatic pop-up featuring information from the World Health Organization and local health authorities.
“Given the developing situation, we’re working with national ministries of health and organizations like the WHO, CDC and UNICEF to help them get out timely, accurate information on the coronavirus,” Mark Zuckerberg wrote in an update on his company’s efforts. “We’re giving the WHO as many free ads as they need for their coronavirus response along with other in-kind support.”
The company is also focused on curtailing potentially life-threatening coronavirus misinformation, removing ads, conspiracy theories and treatment claims with no scientific basis. Facebook’s decision to disable ads for face masks comes at a time when health authorities are urging well people to forgo buying the masks, both because they are not necessary for healthy individuals to wear and because demand for the masks is constricting their supply for the medical workers who need them most.

Twitter now bans dehumanizing remarks based on age, disability, and disease

Twitter has updated its hate speech policies to cover tweets that make dehumanizing remarks, which are remarks that treat “others as less than human,” on the basis of age, disability, or disease. The changes follow updates to the company’s polices made last July that said Twitter would remove tweets that dehumanize religious groups.
Prior to that, Twitter issued a broad ban in 2018 on dehumanizing speech to compliment its existing hate speech policies that cover protected classes like race and gender. It has since been updating these dehumanization policies to take into account specific cases its original ruleset failed to address, based on user feedback.
Now, Twitter says tweets like the ones in the image below will be removed when they are reported:
The company says reported tweets in violation of these new polices but posted before today will be removed but won’t result in account suspensions.
Twitter first rolled out policies banning dehumanizing speech in September 2018. At the time, Twitter asked for feedback and later said it received more than 8,000 responses across more than 30 countries in just two weeks time. Much of the feedback centered around the policies being too broad. So Twitter has begun calling out specific types of speech against specific groups as against its rules, starting with religion and now age, disability, and disease.

Twitter Safety
✔@TwitterSafety
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We continuously examine our rules to help make Twitter safer. Last year we updated our Hateful Conduct policy to address dehumanizing speech, starting with one protected category: religious groups. Now, we’re expanding to three more: age, disease and disability.
Twitter also does not allow misgendering or naming transgender people by the name they used before they transitioned, also called “deadnaming,” a policy put in place in late 2018. The company said in October 2019 that its automated moderation tools now flag and remove more.