The Big Tech behemoth announced the move in a Thursday blog post, updating its policies on ads and monetization in order to “ensure a brand-safe environment” for advertisers, and to “protect users” from “unreliable claims” as well as “fake medical cures or anti-vaccine advocacy.” “Our advertising and publisher partners … …
Read More »At explicit content site OnlyFans, ex-employees kept access to private customer information, including ID & credit cards – reports
OnlyFans is used mostly, but not exclusively, by amateur sex workers to sell pornographic content. The platform uses Zendesk to track and respond to customer support requests, from both creators who post content and customers who pay for it. However, multiple people continued to have access to the software – …
Read More »RT’s digital content project Redfish laments ‘censorship’ after Facebook blocks it on Instagram without proper explanation
Users who have tried to access Redfish on Instagram Thursday have been met with a short notification that reads “Sorry, this page isn’t available.” The Berlin-based project’s admins said they still maintained access to the account, which has garnered over 419,000 followers, but all of the posts on it seem …
Read More »Platforms like TikTok are full of ‘irrelevant content’ that is destroying human creativity, says Russian tech billionaire Durov
Writing on his personal channel on Saturday, Pavel Durov claimed that the consumption of both food and information work in a similar way. “If we nourish our brain with real-life data that allows it to solve fundamental problems, it will process this data in the background and come up with …
Read More »Will it be called OnlyTwits? Twitter’s ‘Super Follows’ fills paid content niche users didn’t know existed
Rolled out on Wednesday, the Super Follows feature is clearly meant to become a major part of Twitter, as its first tweets were posted under its very own username (@SuperFollows, of course). The feature is currently only available for iOS to those American and Canadian users who applied for the …
Read More »China combs through online content that ‘bad-mouths’ its economy
The National Cyberspace Administration of China on Friday launched a “special rectification” action targeting illegal procurement and misinterpretation of financial information. The agency called on social media platforms to carry out checks to cleanse finance-related content that “violates China’s regulations.” China’s major regulatory agencies will supervise and guide the moves, …
Read More »OnlyFans REVERSES adult content ban, says it will provide home for ‘all creators’
The un-banning immediately angered some sex workers who likened the reversal to an abusive ex-boyfriend trying to win them back. OnlyFans – which is used mostly, but not exclusively, by amateur sex workers to sell pornographic content – announced last week that it would prohibit content showing sexual intercourse, masturbation, …
Read More »Dirty money? OnlyFans to ditch sexually explicit content to please skittish investors
The platform, almost exclusively dedicated to sexualized photos and videos, has announced it will no longer allow users to post any “sexually explicit conduct” come October. However, it said, creators will still be able to post nude photos and videos – as long as they are “consistent with OnlyFans’ policy.” “In …
Read More »Satirical content creator censored by YouTube ‘in error’ weeks after criticizing YouTube censorship
Orfalea is a leftist video content creator best known for his inspiring viral 2019 video blasting mainstream media for its skewed coverage of the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign. His YouTube channel has over 53,000 subscribers interested in his anti-establishment political commentary. Lately, however, the platform seems to have ratcheted up …
Read More »India strips Twitter of legal immunity for ‘3rd party content’ amid row over new regulation – reports
The social network became the first American platform to lose the legal protections on Wednesday, with the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology claiming the site had not yet come in line with new social media rules implemented in late May, according to several local media outlets. “Due to their …
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