Reassess

The Oversight Board has issued its response to Meta’s request to help it reevaluate its COVID-19 misinformation rules. The social network first asked the Oversight to weigh in on the rules last summer, noting that it policies had resulted in an “unprecedented” number of removed posts but that the pandemic had “evolved” considerably since the rules were first put in place. In its policy advisory opinion, the Oversight Board said that Meta should continue to remove false claims about the pandemic that are “likely to…

Corporate information technology leaders say they are reassessing vendor relationships and putting greater emphasis on risk management as they navigate the aftermath of the Silicon Valley Bank collapse. “You can be proactive all you want, but the response to a crisis, the response to a disruption no one saw coming, is just as important,” said Sineesh Keshav, chief technology officer and chief information officer at logistics real-estate company Prologis Inc. He…

Unity, the company behind one of the most used game engines in the world, has laid off another 284 members of staff. Less than seven months ago, Unity let go of 200 workers as the company looked to “realign some of our resources to better drive focus and support our long-term growth.” Today (January 18) another 248 have been fired. Unity CEO John Riccitiello explained, via a letter to employees, that the most recent cuts came about after the company “reassessed our objectives, strategies, goals and priorities in light of…

I have a new recommendation for Google Ads advertisers in 2023:Turn off and pause the use of all Google Ads recommendations.Why? On Jan. 4, Google Ads fundamentally changed the definition of a recommendation that users previously implemented. And Google is only giving advertisers two weeks before the change hits. Before we begin here, the moral of this article is neither that the content in recommendations is bad, nor that you should blindly dismiss all recommendations. The…

Meta must reassess the legal basis on how Facebook and Instagram use personal data to target advertising in the European Union, its lead privacy regulator in the bloc said on Wednesday when it fined the social media giant EUR 390 million (roughly Rs. 3,500 crore) for the breaches.Meta said it intended to appeal both the substance of the rulings and the fines imposed, and that the decisions do not prevent personalised advertising on its platforms.The order on personalised advertising was made in December by the EU's…

Prior to 2022, I was what you might call a “Dark Souls hater.” I just couldn’t find the fun in acclaimed FromSoftware games like Bloodborne, which left me raging without giving me the sense of reward die-hard fans feel when they slay a tough boss. So, it came as a shock when I fell in love with Elden Ring earlier this year. Its open-world structure cracked the subgenre wide open for me, allowing me to better understand the appeal. I figured the buck stopped there when it came to my ability to enjoy FromSoftware…

Frederik Mijnhardt Contributor Frederik Mijnhardt is the CEO of Secfi, an equity planning platform for startup executives and employees. More posts by this contributor Inside Secfi’s 2021 state of stock options equity report Last year was a great one for startups. It was a record year for companies going public, valuations for pre-IPO companies were skyrocketing, and fundraising also shattered records. But 2022 is going to be…