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NEW: FACEBOOK SUPPRIME THE TRUMP POST: Facebook announced Wednesday night that it had deleted a message from President Trump, Donald John Trump, Trump Will a Kenosha on Tuesday amid Warner’s problems calling the intelligence leader’s leader’s resolution to cut Congressional security briefings ”The Katyusha rocket lands in Baghdad’s ‘Green Zone’ : report
The message included a video of the president on “Fox and Friends” early Wednesday morning in which he stated that young people are “almost immune” to the virus.
Facebook has already got rid of the trump campaign’s classified ads, but Wednesday’s action marked the first time it deleted a message from the president’s account due to incorrect information about the coronavirus.
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HIGHLIGHTED IN FACEBOOK: Twenty state attorneys general are asking Facebook to take a series of steps to more proactively combat misinformation and hate speech, the newest organization that asks the tech giant to take stronger action against incendiary content on its platform.
State officials sent a letter to Facebook EXECUTIVE Director Mark Zuckerberg, Mark Elliot Zuckerberg, Hillicon Valley: Zuckerberg acknowledges failure to destroy Kenosha’s army organization despite warnings Election officials ignore considerations about postal voting, Zuckerberg’s deposit boxes admit that it could not dismantle Kenosha’s defense force despite Hill Valley’s warnings : TikTok sues Trump management in executive order Zoom reports widespread cuts affecting schools and hearings The federal cyber firm is releasing a strategy to protect 5G MORE networks and leading operations officer Sheryl Sandberg said Wednesday that the company had “failed” on a variety of issues, adding the elimination of harassment, discrimination and online misinformation.
They suggested that the company “more vigorously apply” its anti-hate speech policies and hate organizations, allow public audits through third parties of hateful content and enforcement, and extend its policies to advertisements that defame minority groups.
The letter was directed by New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal (D), who lobbied Facebook this year to remove a page that he said spreads “racist and anti-Semitic statements.” Among the signatories of the letter were California’s Attorney General’s Attorney General; Wisconsin; Iowa; Washington, D.C. and Hawaii.
“Facebook obviously has a challenge of hatred, discrimination and misinformation,” Grewal said in an interview with The Hill, adding that this had “real consequences for public safety.”
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TIKTOK A CLONE: Facebook on Wednesday presented a direct competitor for the TikTok short video app in 50 countries following an antitrust review.
Reels, available on Facebook’s Instagram on iOS and Android, allows users to edit 15-second clips in combination with music. Instagram will come with Reels on its Explorer page, allowing users to scroll vertically, as will TikTok’s “For You” page.
The release of Reels comes when President Trump threatens to prevent TikTok from operating in the United States because of his ties to China.
The parent company of the short video application, ByteDance, is headquartered and operates from Beijing, TikTok’s knowledge in the US. It has been transferred to servers in the United States.
While it is legally doubtful that Trump has the strength to prohibit an application, the Treasury Department’s Foreign Investment Committee (CFIUS) has asked ByteDance to sell TikTok.
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TIKTOK POLITICAL NEWS: TikTok announced on Wednesday a number of new measures to counter incorrect political information on the abbreviated video sharing platform.
The popular app updates its policies to prohibit or manipulate content, such as deepfakes. The company is also partnering with two data verification organizations, PolitiFact and Lead Stories, to monitor incorrect information about the 2020 elections.
In the coming weeks, TikTok users will be able to report posts or accounts to review for false election information imaginable.
Vanessa Pappas, TikTok’s leading chief operating officer in the U.S., wrote in a blog post that while artificial content “was already widely covered through our guidelines,” the latest update “clarifies policy for our users.”
TikTok is also running with a Department of Homeland Security company to counter the influence of foreigners in elections.
“Misinformation, misinformation, and threats to civic engagement are demanding situations that no platform can ignore,” Pappas wrote. “By working in a combination as an industry with experts and civil society organizations, we can improve the civic processes that are so essential for our users.”
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WARNING LIGHTS: Senators and other force officials warned Wednesday that foreign adversaries were proceeding to attack the grid of U.S. forces, and noted that the COVID-19 pandemic underscored the dangers.
“The risk of cyberattacks through foreign opponents and other complicated entities is genuine and is on the rise,” Lisa Murkowski, chair of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Lisa Murkowski, and Ann Murkowski in an effort to help Charlie Crist Here are the most sensitive Republicans supporting Biden MORE (R-Alaska), said Wednesday at a committee hearing on cyber risks online. “The COVID-19 pandemic has created an exclusive opportunity for cybercriminals to attack our networks, adding critical energy infrastructure.”
Murkowski highlighted considerations about Ukraine’s Russian network of forces in 2015 and the accusations recently announced by the Department of Justice against two Chinese hackers for a wide variety of groups, and added a Ministry of Energy website.
“We all know what’s at stake here, ” said Murkowski. “A successful attack can simply cut off power, affecting hospitals, banks, fuel pumps, military facilities and mobile phone service. The consequences would be widespread and devastating, and even more so if we are in the midst of a global pandemic.”
Sen. Joe Manchin Joseph (Joe) ManchinThe fight opposed to balance looms if Democrats return to Schumer’s Senate after overthrowing the systematic obstructionist committee member, he warned at the same hearing that “threats to federal infrastructure are serious and expand throughout the day.”
“The COVID-19 crisis has made our country and the world fully aware of the consequences of the lack of preparation for a catastrophic event,” he said.”The pandemic has forced the electricity industry to adapt to new demanding situations and vulnerabilities with more workers.”running remotely.”
Considerations came immediately after the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Department of Homeland Security and Infrastructure (CISA)’s Cyber Security and Infrastructure Agency (CISA), which issued an alert in July warning that foreign hackers were focusing on critical infrastructure through Internet connections. Operational technology (20 / Assets).
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REPORT ON RUSSIA TO SEE: The Senate Intelligence Committee voted tuesday to approve its fifth and final report on Russia’s election interference efforts in 2016, and the heads of the committees promised to continue publishing a declassified edition of the report to the public.
The fifth report, the product of a multi-party, multi-party investigation conducted through the committee, covers the findings of counterintelligence and was recently referred to the committee following a declassification review through the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
“Today, the Senate Intelligence Committee voted to approve the classified edition of the final volume of the Committee’s bipartisan russia investigation,” said Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Marco Rubio. READ: Letter from the Director of National Intelligence to Congress on more election security briefings (R-Fla.) And Vice President Mark Warner Mark Robert Warner Warner calls the intelligence chief’s decision to reduce Congressional election security briefings as ‘outrageous’ LEA: Letter from the Director of National Intelligence to Congress about Hillicon Valley election security briefings: Zuckerberg acknowledges that the Kenosha military group was not dismantled despite warnings Election officials are rejecting considerations about voting by mail , said more deposit boxes (D-Va.). In a joint statement.
“In the coming days, the Committee will make paintings to incorporate any additional perspectives, as well as paintings with networked intelligence paintings to formalize a well-written, declassified and publicly disseminated edition of the Volume Five report,” Warner and Rubio added. “We would like to thank the investigators of the Committee on Russia for their years of diligent and hard work on this issue.”
The committee already has 4 previous reports on Russia’s efforts to target electoral infrastructure in 2016, the use of social media to influence elections, the U.S. government’s reaction to Russian interference efforts, and a review of the intelligence community’s assessment of Russian election interference.
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RELATED: Anthony Levandowski, a former Uber executive, was sentenced Tuesday to 18 months in prison after pleading guilty to the theft of Google’s patented self-driving car generation, for which he had worked in the past.
Levandowski pleaded guilty to stealing industry secrets in March. In his admission, Levandowski said he had stolen more than 20 archives from the tech giant. First he was charged with 33 counts of theft and attempted theft of industry secrets, the plea agreement reduced him to one charge.
Federal District Judge William Alsup said to the conviction that Levandowski had stolen a competitor’s “party plan,” Reuters reports.
He will begin his sentence once the coronavirus pandemic ceases, Alsup added.
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