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Nigeria is monitoring Meta Platforms Facebook and other platforms to ensure they comply with demands to curtail hate speech on their sites, as it steps up its campaign for responsible use of social media, Information Minister Lai Mohammed said on Tuesday.Mohammed's comments came after meeting with Facebook's team in Nigeria's capital, Abuja. He said Facebook had done nothing to curtail the activities of separatist group Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) on their platform despite several complaints.Nnamdi Kanu, IPOB's…

REE Automotive, an automotive technology company planning to make electric vehicle (EV) platforms, has announced progress towards commercial production. REE plans to implement cloud-based robotic assembly lines at its network of highly-digitalized global manufacturing plants with the first in its European Integration Center in Coventry, UK.  REE’s Coventry Integration Center will serve customer demand in Europe with an initial focus on…

Donald Trump will have to wait for six hours before reposting his messages from the social media platform Truth Social on other platforms, a regulatory filing revealed on Monday.The platform was launched with the mission of standing up to Big Tech, after the former US president was kicked off of Twitter, Facebook and YouTube for allegedly inciting and glorifying violence during the January 6 US Capitol riots.Billionaire Elon Musk, who has bid to buy Twitter for $44 billion (roughly Rs. 3,41,910 crore), has said he would…

Three years after a mass shooting in New Zealand was live-streamed online, the spread of footage taken by the alleged shooter in Buffalo, N.Y., shows how social-media platforms still struggle to keep their platforms from being used to broadcast violent, extremist videos. The shooting rampage at a supermarket on Saturday, which left 10 people dead and three wounded, was broadcast on Twitch, a site owned by Amazon.com Inc. that specializes in live streaming. Three years after a mass…

Social platforms have learned to remove violent videos of extremist shootings more quickly over the past few years. It's just not clear they're moving quickly enough.Police say that when a white gunman killed 10 people and wounded three others — most of them Black — in a “racially motivated violent extremist” shooting in Buffalo Saturday, he livestreamed the attack to the gaming platform Twitch, which is owned by Amazon. It didn't stay there long; a Twitch spokesperson said it removed the video in less than two…

In March 2019, before a gunman murdered 51 people at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, he went live on Facebook to broadcast his attack. In October of that year, a man in Germany broadcast his own mass shooting live on Twitch, the Amazon-owned livestreaming site popular with gamers. On Saturday, a gunman in Buffalo, New York, mounted a camera to his helmet and livestreamed on Twitch as he killed 10 people and injured three more at a grocery store in what authorities said was a racist attack. In a manifesto posted…

Apple, Google, and Microsoft have announced that they will be implementing new capabilities of the common passwordless sign-in standard created by the FIDO Alliance and the World Wide Web Consortium on their devices as well as platforms. The standard was created in order to make the Web more secure by allowing consumers to log in to websites without any password. The FIDO, or Fast Identity Online, Alliance was formed in July 2012 to address the problem of people using hackable passwords to sign-in to various platforms.As…

In an interview Tuesday with CNBC's Jim Cramer, Upstart Holdings CEO David Girouard sought to downplay investor concerns about the increased loan balance held on the financial technology firm's balance sheet at the end of its first quarter.Shares of the artificial intelligence lending platform plunged 56.42% Tuesday, closing at $33.61 apiece, one day after it also lowered its full-year outlook for revenue and adjusted EBITDA margin. Upstart cited rising interest rates and broader economic uncertainty for the revised…

Garmin India has today launched the vivomove Sport hybrid touchscreen smartwatch in four colours; Ivory, Cool Mint, Cocoa, and Black online exclusive on Nykaa across its platforms- Nykaa.com, Nykaa Fashion, and Nykaa Man in India. Garmin’s latest addition to their portfolio features OLED display. It can be used with either Android or iOS smartphones. The Garmin vivomove Sport features a silicone band and color-coordinated watch dial in warm colorways and a soft green reminiscent of…

Several Twitter users who are irked by Elon Musk’s acquisition of the microblogging platform are now switching to other social networks with a similar pedigree. A case in point is Mastodon, which has seen over 30,000 new user signups in a single day, according to its chief executive Eugen Rochko. The sudden influx of new users has also slowed down the servers for this nondescript social network. “Mastodon social is being slow right now, as far as I can tell because there are twice as…