The Week That Was – IT and Media Major News Check List
One of the expected big news stories was a disappointment. Facebook Oversight Board published its evaluation of Facebook’s closing of Donald Trump’s accounts but gave no real guidance on freedom of speech on social media.
Trump launched his own new website insisting the US presidential elections, that he lost were fraudulent. Facebook said it wants more news video and Microsoft promised not to move EU data out of the EU.
Facebook Oversight Board upheld Facebook’s suspension of Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts but criticized the open-ended nature of the suspension calling it an “indeterminate and standardless penalty” insisting Facebook reviews its response within six months.
Donald Trump launched his own website saying it will deliver messages “from the Desk of Donald J Trump’s. One of the messages is repeating the debunked statement that the presidential elections were fraudulent: “The Fraudulent Presidential Election of 2020 will be, from this day forth, known as THE BIG LIE!”
YouTube said users are coming to the platform and looking for news. The company will be funding two programs for journalists because users want more videos from authoritative journalists and outlets.
Microsoft announced that the company’s customers in the EU will be able to process and store all data in the EU so the company will not move any EU data outside the EU.
Clubhouse downloads of social audio chat app have fallen from more than nine million monthly downloads in February to 2.8 million in March.
Almost all of 50 of the UK’s biggest employers do not plan to bring staff back to the office full-time when the the pandemic now is calming down, according to a survey by the BBC. Google CEO Sundar Pichai sent an email to employees asking them to return to the office for at least three days per week.
Apple’s dominance is stressed in a court case initiated by Epic Games. The case will take three weeks, started with Epics saying it on purpose put its own in-app payment system in game “Fortnite” to avoid Apple’s in-app purchase system that takes commission of up to 30%.
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