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Apple took down one of the world’s most popular Quran apps in China days after Microsoft’s LinkedIn announced it is closing its localized Chinese version of the platform. The closing of the Quran Majeed followed a request from officials, the BBC reported. LinkedIn said that it is “facing a significantly more challenging operating environment and greater compliance requirements in China.

Facebook whistleblower, former Facebook employee, Frances Haugen, is invited to a meting with the company´s Oversight Board. She will also  give evidence to the UK Parliament later this month. The Parliament’s Online Safety Bill committee is discussing legislation that would force social-media companies to protect users, especially children

There is antisemitism on every social platform, according to a report covering nine social media platforms and published in connection with the International Forum on Holocaust Remembrance and Combating Antisemitism. The report was made by London-based campaign group HOPE not Hate, in collaboration with Swedish Expo Foundation and German Amadeu Antonio Foundation. platforms.”

The ”Nobel Week” resulted in 13 new laureates – 1 woman and 12 men! But introducing quotas is out of the question according to the head of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science. Journalist and publisher Maria Ressa, Philippines, was the only woman awarded in 2021 when she shared the Peace Prize with her Russian colleague Dmitry Muratov for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression.

The Pegasus Project, an investigative project by journalist consortium Forbidden Stories, was awarded the first Daphne Caruana Galizia journalism prize of Euro 20 000. The project showed how customers of Israeli company NSO Group have used spy software to tap politicians´, activists´ and journalists´ mobile phones.

One third of respondents in a new survey estimates they will spend even more time in 2022 watching streaming video via subscriptions or services that are for free. Consumers are most willing to pay for movies and TV-shows while 64% want live news for free, according to a global survey made by tech marketing company Criteo.

A report on fundraising showed  women-founded startups in 2020 raised just 1% of investment in Central and Eastern Europe, 5% went to mixed-gender founding teams, while all-men teams raised 94%. Since 2016, all-women founding teams have received on average 2% of startup investment.

Facebook announced updates of the company’s bullying policies and will remove more harmful content that attacks public figures, as well as provide more protections for public figures who have become famous involuntarily — like human rights defenders and journalists”, the company said. 

 

 

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