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American media outlet NPR has become the first major news organisation to quit Twitter after the Elon Musk-run platform labelled it as a government-funded organisation.After NPR, the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) also left Twitter after being labelled as government-backed media.NPR said it will no longer post fresh content to its 52 official Twitter feeds, including the primary @NPR handle, which has nearly 9 million followers.Last week, Twitter placed a "state-affiliated media" label on NPR's account. After a…

Share of Consumers Who Trust Food Labels, March 2023. Credit: Purdue University Center for Food Demand Analysis and Sustainability Americans tend to trust food labels, especially the ingredient list, expiration date and nutrition fact label, according to the March Consumer Food Insights Report. The most distrusted labels include low-calorie, naturalness and health claims. …

Twitter CEO Elon Musk apparently trusts Wikipedia more than any expert or audited report and uses it to make crucial decisions about press freedom.Mr. Tweet Fumbles Super Bowl TweetMusk told NPR reporter Bobby Allyn on Monday evening that he uses a Wikipedia page on “Publicly-funded broadcasters” to determine which outlets receive Twitter’s controversial new “Government Funded Media” label on their profiles. According to the company’s updated help article on media account labels, Twitter considers outlets to be…

Twitter has backtracked after an uproar for labelling the US radio network NPR as "state- affiliated media" and now calls it "government-funded."Elon Musk's social media network has also applied that new label to the BBC, which is funded predominantly by British households paying a license fee.Britain's beloved national broadcaster has reached out to Twitter for clarification, news reports said.The change in how Twitter refers to Washington-based National Public Radio happened quietly overnight Saturday and comes after…

The current PEGI "In-game Purchases (Includes Random Items)" content descriptor. © 2020 (Pan-European Game Information (PEGI). Credit: Royal Society Open Science (2023). DOI: 10.1098/rsos.230270 Leon Xiao, a lawyer with the IT University of Copenhagen's Center for Digital Play, has published a report in the journal Royal Society Open Science claiming that game makers are not compliant with mandates for labels on video games…

Idris Elba says backlash over not calling himself a ‘black actor’ is ‘stupid'(Photo Credit –Instagram) Hollywood star Idris Elba created a tizzy on social media in February after he said that he stopped calling himself a “Black actor” because it created limitations for his career. The Luther actor was immediately accused of renouncing his blackness, although actors such as John Boyega came to his defence and argued that critics weren’t paying attention to his message about damning Hollywood stereotyping, reports…

Photo: rafapress / Shutterstock.com (Shutterstock)The makers of the world’s most popular Android app are providing false or misleading information in the “privacy nutrition labels” in Google’s Play Store, according to a new study from Mozilla’s *Privacy Not Included project.The study looked at the privacy information that app developers are supposed to fill out in the Google’s Play Store and compared those details to the apps’ privacy policies. The privacy labels are supposed to give you information about an app’s data…

Google is rolling out the stable version of ChromeOS 110 for Chromebooks to large number of users, as announced by the company on Thursday. The latest stable channel update for ChromeOS brings along with it a host of new features which includes super resolution audio. It utilises a machine learning (ML) algorithm to reconstruct high frequency parts of another low bandwidth signal in order to allow for a more natural hearing experience on call. The latest stable version rollout also includes a more…

Women who are seen as assertive can often be negatively labelled at work. Credit: Shutterstock Have you or a colleague ever been negatively labeled at work, whether it's based on your gender, age, race or ethnicity? Labels can often be mundane because we use them spontaneously on an everyday basis. But they can also be far from innocuous. Labels convey value judgments and serve to control the behavior of the people they're…

TikTok its use of labels for state-run media accounts, the company announced. The app is now bringing the tags, which identify “accounts run by organizations whose editorial output or decision-making process is subject to control or influence by a government,” to dozens of markets. The company is relatively late to adopt such labels compared with most of its counterparts. YouTube added similar labels , while and adopted them in 2020. TikTok only began labeling state-run media accounts , following Russia’s invasion of…