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Facebook Live restrictions, updated content detection system, announced following New Zealand Christchurch shooting

Facebook announced new restrictions to its Facebook Live on Wednesday, the changes arriving in response to the New Zealand terror attack in March. The company also announced investment and partnerships with academic institutions to tackle manipulated media on its platforms. Both Facebook and YouTube faced huge criticism after a man streamed a terror attack on two mosques […]

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Apple Pay Legal News

Apple disables Apple Pay functionality for white supremacist websites, online storefronts

This is pretty significant. On Wednesday, Apple confirmed that the company had disabled Apple Pay functionality for websites that sell apparel and paraphernalia from white nationalists and hate groups. The discontinuation of service applies to garments with Nazi logos, t-shirts sporting the phrase “White Pride,” and a bumper sticker showing a car plowing into stick […]

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Apple, Dr. Dre working on scripted television series

Apple and the mighty Dr. Dre are creating an original television show. It’s been discovered that the company and Dr. Dre (real name Andre Young), who works as one of its executives, will have Dr. Dre starring and executive producing his own six-episode vehicle, dubbed Vital Signs, and the production is being bankrolled by Apple. […]