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Facebook agrees to restrict anti-government content in Vietnam after months of throttling

Facebook has agreed to block get entry to to positive anti-government content to customers in Vietnam, following months of having its products and services throttled there, reportedly through state-owned telecoms. Reuters, mentioning resources throughout the corporate, reported that Vietnam asked previous in the yr that Facebook leisure…
Facebook has agreed to block access to certain anti-government content to users in Vietnam, following months of having its services throttled there, reportedly by state-owned telecoms. Reuters, citing sources within the company, reported that Vietnam requested earlier in the year that Facebook rest…

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  2. "Image and video manipulation powered by deep learning, or so-called “deepfakes,” represent a strange and horrifying facet of a promising new field". (September 16, 2019)
  3. "The digitally face-swapped videos known as deepfakes arent going anywhere, but if platforms want to be able to keep an eye on them, they need to find them first. Doing so was the object of Facebooks Deepfake Detection Challenge, launched last year". (June 12, 2020)
  4. "Facebook's WhatsApp is in the midst of a lawsuit against Israeli mobile surveillance outfit NSO Group. But before complaining about the company's methods, Facebook seems to have wanted to use them for its own purposes, according to testimony from NSO founder Shalev Hulio". (April 4, 2020)
  5. "It's a bit strange to hear that the world's leading social network is pursuing research in robotics rather than, say, making search useful, but Facebook is a big organization with many competing priorities". (May 20, 2019)
  6. "An independent investigator has issued a preliminary report on its work determining the existence and/or extent of bias against conservatives on Facebook". (August 28, 2019)
  7. "If AI-powered robots are ever going to help us out around the house, they're going to need a lot of experience navigating human environments". (June 14, 2019)
  8. "Facebook has challenged the FTCs antitrust case against it using a standard playbook that questions the agencys arguably expansive approach to defining monopolies". (March 10, 2021)
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