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WhatsApp Hits 100 Million Monthly Active Users In The US
5 months, 2 weeks ago

WhatsApp Hits 100 Million Monthly Active Users In The US

ABP News  

Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive officer of Meta, shared some significant news about WhatsApp's user base in the United States. Using his own WhatsApp channel, Zuckerberg revealed that the messaging platform has reached a milestone of 100 million monthly active users in the US. WhatsApp also noted substantial user growth in the Southern region of the United States, with Texas …

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'Mary Poppins' And The Parental Guidance Dilemma
10 months, 1 week ago

'Mary Poppins' And The Parental Guidance Dilemma

Huff Post  

Many young people are aware of and desire conversation around sensitive topics, as seen in the Oscar-nominated documentary, "The ABCs of Book Banning." As evident in “The ABCs of Book Banning,” children are more aware of — and, in many cases, more directly impacted by — the world around them than they’re given credit for. In "The ABCs of Book …

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Over 50% smartphone users pick them up without thought, average user spends 31% of waking time on phones
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Over 50% smartphone users pick them up without thought, average user spends 31% of waking time on phones

Firstpost  

A groundbreaking report conducted by the Boston Consulting Group, India sheds light on the remarkable transformation in human behaviour driven by the unprecedented surge in smartphone usage over the past 13 years. Titled ‘Reimagining Smartphone Experience: How ‘Surfaces’ can play a key role in making the phone smarter,’ the report unveils startling statistics: 31 per cent of waking time is …

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1 year, 2 months ago

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Retail and e-commerce giant Amazon, in its first store transparency report has said it has more than 181 million users in the European Union and directly employs more than 150,000 people in the region, says a report by news agency Reuters. Amazon's first store transparency report is required by the EU's new Digital Services Act. In August, the Digital Services …

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Cashless businesses face consumer boycotts as people claim it denies freedoms
1 year, 6 months ago

Cashless businesses face consumer boycotts as people claim it denies freedoms

ABC  

Businesses that ask for cashless payments are facing backlash and boycotts from a section of the community that believes refusing to take cash is an infringement of their personal rights. Key points: Some consumers are driving a campaign against businesses for going cashless Mike Palmer started a Facebook group that encourages boycotts of cashless businesses There are currently no laws …

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Zee Ent reports net loss of ₹196 cr in Q4, revenue down 9%; key highlights
1 year, 7 months ago

Zee Ent reports net loss of ₹196 cr in Q4, revenue down 9%; key highlights

Live Mint  

Zee Entertainment announced its Q4FY23 results on May 25, reporting a net loss of ₹196 crore, compared to a net profit of ₹181 crore in the corresponding period last year. The media giant's revenue during the January-march quarter came in at ₹2,112.1 crore, registering a decline of nine per cent, compared to ₹2,323 crore in the year-ago period. On the …

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TikTok CEO appeals to 150 million US users for support ahead of Congressional hearing
1 year, 9 months ago

TikTok CEO appeals to 150 million US users for support ahead of Congressional hearing

Firstpost  

The CEO of TikTok, the Chinese-owned brief video app under political examination in the United States, has urged its 150 million American users to share their enthusiasm for the product in order to avoid a US prohibition ahead of a crucial Congressional meeting. In a video recording posted on Tuesday on TikTok’s official account on the app, Chew Shou Zi, …

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India among top three nations for active users growth on Facebook: Meta
1 year, 11 months ago

India among top three nations for active users growth on Facebook: Meta

Hindustan Times  

India is among the top three nations contributing active users growth for Facebook as of December 31, 2022, social media major Meta said in a regulatory filing. The company has reported a 4 per cent increase in worldwide daily active users to 2 billion on average during December 2022 from 1.93 billion during December 2021. "Users in India, the Philippines …

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L.A.’s Tess Gunty, Imani Perry among winners of 2022 National Book Awards
2 years, 1 month ago

L.A.’s Tess Gunty, Imani Perry among winners of 2022 National Book Awards

LA Times  

Tess Gunty and Imani Perry were the big winners at the 73rd National Book Awards, taking home honors in fiction and nonfiction, respectively, as the prestigious literary prizes were announced at a gala at Cipriani Wall Street in New York for the first time since 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic put a pause on live events. Gunty won for her …

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Letters to the Editor: Book bans? Just be glad our kids want to read anything
2 years, 5 months ago

Letters to the Editor: Book bans? Just be glad our kids want to read anything

LA Times  

The graphic novel “Maus” by Art Spiegelman was recently targeted by a school board in Tennessee for a book ban. To the editor: Michael Hiltzik’s column about the book banning crusades reminded of when I, as a junior high school student, took Ian Fleming’s “Dr. No.” Somehow, even with such perverse influences, I’ve managed to make it through law school …

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Activism Grows Nationwide In Response To School Book Bans
2 years, 10 months ago

Activism Grows Nationwide In Response To School Book Bans

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING NEW YORK — Until a year ago, Stephana Ferrell’s political activism was limited to the occasional letter to elected officials. Along with fellow Orange County parent Jen Cousins, she founded the Florida Freedom to Read Project, which works with existing parent groups statewide on a range of educational issues, including efforts to “keep or get back books …

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Returning to ‘The View,’ Whoopi Goldberg plays it cool after two-week suspension
2 years, 10 months ago

Returning to ‘The View,’ Whoopi Goldberg plays it cool after two-week suspension

LA Times  

Whoopi Goldberg returned to “The View” Monday after a two-week suspension, with virtually no attention paid to why she had been out in the first place. “Hello, hello, hello, and welcome to ‘The View.’ And yes, I am back,” said Goldberg, who was suspended for two weeks by ABC News after making controversial comments about the Holocaust. It’s about man’s …

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Tennessee parents, teachers push back against ‘Maus’ removal
2 years, 10 months ago

Tennessee parents, teachers push back against ‘Maus’ removal

Associated Press  

ATHENS, Tenn. — Growing up in rural eastern Tennessee, James Cockrum hadn’t given much thought to the possibility that one day he might find himself speaking about his Jewish heritage in front of a packed school board meeting. But four days after news broke that the McMinn County school board unanimously voted to remove a Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel about …

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What's behind the right-wing book-ban frenzy? Big money, and a long-term plan
2 years, 11 months ago

What's behind the right-wing book-ban frenzy? Big money, and a long-term plan

Salon  

Until very recently, "book bans" seemed like a term out of the past, or a phenomenon that erupted sporadically in a small school or library district in the most conservative areas of the country. RELATED: "Parental rights" started on the Christian fringe — now it's the GOP's winning issue Parents Defending Education — a self-described "grassroots organization" promoting "the restoration …

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What the Outrage Over a Local Decision to Stop Teaching Maus Gets Wrong
2 years, 11 months ago

What the Outrage Over a Local Decision to Stop Teaching Maus Gets Wrong

Slate  

This past week, the graphic novel Maus has catapulted up Amazon’s bestseller list. Indeed, the Maus decision is legible as part of a national trend that includes proposals like Oklahoma’s Students’ Religious Belief Protection Act, which would offer individuals the option to sue teachers for $10,000 in damages for contradicting the religious beliefs of students; Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill, …

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Tennessee gov, GOP push more scrutiny of school libraries
2 years, 11 months ago

Tennessee gov, GOP push more scrutiny of school libraries

Associated Press  

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Less than a week after a local Tennessee school board attracted national attention for banning a Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust, Gov. “This law will also create greater accountability at the local level so parents are empowered to make sure content is age-appropriate.” The Republican’s remarks echo sentiments of conservative officials across the country who …

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Facebook loses daily users, ad growth drops down- Report
2 years, 11 months ago

Facebook loses daily users, ad growth drops down- Report

India TV News  

Highlights Massive stock drop instantly wiped out around $200 billion in its market value Meta-owned Facebook platform registered 1.929 billion daily users in fourth quarter of 2021 The user growth slowdown when the company announced that it would rebrand as a "metaverse" company For the first time ever, Facebook has lost daily users globally, reporting lower-than-expected ad growth that sent …

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Youth-Led Group To Give Out Hundreds Of Copies Of ‘Beloved,’ ‘Maus’ Amid Book Bans
2 years, 11 months ago

Youth-Led Group To Give Out Hundreds Of Copies Of ‘Beloved,’ ‘Maus’ Amid Book Bans

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LOADING ERROR LOADING A youth group is distributing hundreds of copies of Toni Morrison’s “Beloved” and Art Spiegelman’s “Maus” in response to Republican-led attacks on those and other books about racism in schools nationwide. In a news release Wednesday, the group said it was “fighting back against the far-right’s attempts to eliminate essential pieces of history and literature from our …

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Whoopi Goldberg’s ‘View’ co-hosts are mum, but this Holocaust survivor wants to talk
2 years, 11 months ago

Whoopi Goldberg’s ‘View’ co-hosts are mum, but this Holocaust survivor wants to talk

LA Times  

Social media is rallying to get an 88-year-old Holocaust survivor on “The View” after co-host Whoopi Goldberg was suspended from the show for her remarks on the genocide. After Goldberg said on Monday’s episode of “The View” that the Holocaust was “not about race,” Lucy Lipiner — a Jewish author whose family fled Poland at the beginning of World War …

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Whoopi Goldberg suspended for 2 weeks over Holocaust remarks
2 years, 11 months ago

Whoopi Goldberg suspended for 2 weeks over Holocaust remarks

NPR  

Whoopi Goldberg suspended for 2 weeks over Holocaust remarks Enlarge this image toggle caption Carolyn Kaster/AP file photo Carolyn Kaster/AP file photo NEW YORK — Whoopi Goldberg has been suspended for two weeks as co-host of The View because of what the head of ABC News called her "wrong and hurtful comments" about Jews and the Holocaust. Goldberg made her …

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Maus banned: The real reason to be worried about the Tennessee decision.
2 years, 11 months ago

Maus banned: The real reason to be worried about the Tennessee decision.

Slate  

A Tennessee school board recently voted to pull the Pulitzer Prize–winning graphic novel Maus and its cat-and-mouse retelling of the Holocaust from the school curriculum. The American Library Association Office for Intellectual Freedom say they’ve never had this many people challenging books. So there are people who argue that they’re not banning the book because you can still get it …

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Why a school board's ban on 'Maus' may put the book in the hands of more readers
2 years, 11 months ago

Why a school board's ban on 'Maus' may put the book in the hands of more readers

NPR  

Why a school board's ban on 'Maus' may put the book in the hands of more readers Enlarge this image toggle caption Maro Siranosian/AFP via Getty Images Maro Siranosian/AFP via Getty Images A Tennessee school district's controversial ban on the Holocaust graphic novel Maus appears to have spurred efforts to get copies into the hands of more readers nationwide. News …

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‘Maus’ ban makes Art Spiegelman’s Holocaust graphic novel an Amazon bestseller
2 years, 11 months ago

‘Maus’ ban makes Art Spiegelman’s Holocaust graphic novel an Amazon bestseller

LA Times  

Two editions of Art Spiegelman’s graphic novel “Maus,” about his parents’ experiences during the Holocaust, have become bestsellers after being banned by a Tennessee school board earlier this month. “Maus,” which was first serialized in Spiegelman’s 1980 comic anthology “Raw,” is set in 1940s Poland during the Holocaust and chronicles his parents’ internment in Auschwitz, depicting Nazis as cats and …

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Sales of Maus Soar After a Tennessee School Board Banned the Book
2 years, 11 months ago

Sales of Maus Soar After a Tennessee School Board Banned the Book

Slate  

The decision by a Tennessee school district to ban Maus seems to have spiked interest in Art Spiegelman’s graphic novel about the Holocaust. The rise in sales came after the McMinn County School Board in Tennessee voted to remove Maus from its eighth grade curriculum, citing its “inappropriate language” and the inclusion of an illustration of a nude woman. Coming …

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