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This is today’s edition of The Download, our daily newsletter that provides a dose of what’s happening in the tech world.
Social media platforms are still struggling to prevent the release of the video of the racist mass shooting in Buffalo on Saturday that left 10 other people dead, most of them black. This is symptomatic of their failure to curb the online exchange of the kinds of racist ideologies that encouraged the attack, experts say.
The 18-year-old gunman broadcast the shooting at a grocery store in a predominantly black suburb of Buffalo, New York, on streaming platform Twitch on Saturday morning. Although Twitch interrupted the live stream two minutes after the attack began, a recording of the video temporarily posted on a video streaming site called Streamable. This video was viewed more than 3 million times before it was removed, according to the New York Times. Links to the recording were shared on Facebook and Twitter, and some other clips purported to show the gunman who shot other people in the supermarket noticed on Twitter more than 4 hours after it was uploaded. the Washington Post.
Though Twitch was quicker to take down the live stream than the 17 minutes it took for Facebook to take down the live stream of the 2019 New Zealand mosque shooting, in which another 51 people were killed. shows little has changed. A 180-page manifesto uploaded via the suspect to Google Docs last Thursday credited the 4chan network for its radicalization toward white supremacy and continually cited the “great replacement” racist conspiracy theory that many social media corporations embrace. they promised to remove it from their platforms in the process. . of the Christchurch terrorist attack. The prevalence of terrorist content on social media demonstrates the platforms’ inability to prioritize user safety, says Imran Ahmed, executive director of the Center for Countering Digital Hate. “We have been victims of the greedy and thirsty indifference of social media corporations for far too long, and the burden has been borne by the companies rather than the corporations themselves,” he says. “It is time for governments to step in to make certain platforms put other people before profit and make sure their platforms are not so easily weaponized through white supremacists and preachers of terrorism.
—Rhiannon Williams
A brilliant premise of DeFi or decentralized finance, an umbrella term for cryptocurrencies and blockchain projects similar to price exchange, is that through the diffusion and automation of operations and the strength of intermediaries such as banks, it can offer a more resilient formula for global forces. But with the dramatic fall of the classic market and the fall of big tech stocks, this theory of resilience is being tested in real life, and the effects are not great. Read the full story.
—Rebecca Ackerman
As driverless cars become less unusual and we get used to seeing cars driving without being human behind the wheel, the question of how we know who drives will become more and more serious. The lidar sensors on the roof that mark lately It is very likely that many of them will become smaller, which will make it less difficult for cars to hide from view. But if they make it to our real roads, other (human) drivers will want to know precisely where they are and what they’re up against. Read the full story. By Jack Stilgoe, Professor of Science and Technology Policy at University College London.
I reviewed for you the funniest/most important/scary/fascinating stories today about technology.
1 Shanghai needs to end its covid lockdown on June 1 Exhausted citizens will have to wait for the truth to be in line with official aspirations. (The Guardian) Daily cases in the city fell to their lowest point in 52 days. (SCMP) The Chinese economy has paid the value of the country’s 0 covid policy. (Bloomberg$) 2 Abortion rights activists are beginning to settle for cryptocurrency donations. (NYT $) After a crazy week, no one knows what awaits us for cryptocurrencies. (WP $) One of the influential top executives of cryptocurrencies claims that he does not trust Bitcoin as a payment network. (FT $) The fall of cryptocurrencies may be just the tip of the iceberg of recession. (Atlantic $)
3 Chinese TikTok users love Putin The truth about Russia’s brutality in Ukraine has been heavily censored in both China and Russia. (Foreign policy) But even pro-Russian bloggers reported on the army’s failure in Donets last week. (NYT $)
4 Elon Musk’s vision of a loose speech for Twitter may cause challenges in India. The country has a massive hate speech challenge, aided and instigated by tough politicians. (WP $) Texas’ social media law will allow extremist content to thrive, according to technology (Bloomberg$) Musk claims to have been reprimanded through Twitter’s legal team for violating an NDA. (The Hill)
5 Photo-sharing apps are a welcome respite for teens tired of social media, but they pose some of the same risks as always. (WP $)
6 Advertisers can still target ethnic teams on Facebook despite a replacement policy that was intended to prevent it from happening. (Marked)
7 NFTs are new to making money from the inheritances of deceased artists, but some look more like a frame than an art painting. (New Yorker $)
8 The hardest component of driving a car is where to land it, which means the new industry would possibly have to rely on aerospace companies. (WSJ $) The use of personal jets has increased the pandemic. (BBC) Tesla’s good fortune has encouraged a total number of new electric cars and boats. (NYT $)
9 This mathematical formula tells you the best time to show up at a party. It all depends on the punctuality of your friends. (The Atlantic $) 10 Spreadsheets are now greatYou can thank/blame TikTok. (FT $)
“Stop treating us like schoolchildren who want to be told when to be, where and what homework to do. “
An open letter from more than 1,400 current and former Apple employees resisting the company’s new rule requiring staff to return to work on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays, the Wall Street Journal reports.
A position of comfort, laughter and distraction in those times. (Do you have any ideas? Write to me or tweet me. )
Nothing yet of respect for the one who records concerts on his Nintendo 3DS. The chocolate cello looks functional and delicious. In a scene similar to Hitchcock’s, a circus in London bombarded by crows. cats such special companions. This couple dress is simply exceptional. I wouldn’t want to stumble upon those animal sculptures in a dark alley. Janet Jackson (Miss Jackson if you’re bad) turns 56 today!A look back at his iconic career.
The digital generation is turning our appointments into cash and, for some countries, the ability to manage their economies.
The startup promises a universal fundamental source of revenue based on distributed cryptocurrencies. So far, all it has done is build a biometric database from the bodies of the poor.
Despite losses of millions of dollars, iBuying’s failure doesn’t mark the end of technology-related disruptions, but only a faltering start.