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Facebook’s most popular posts were trash. Here is how it cleaned up
2 years, 1 month ago

Facebook’s most popular posts were trash. Here is how it cleaned up

Live Mint  

Earlier this year, Meta Platforms Inc. quietly convened a war room of staffers to address a critical problem: virtually all of Facebook’s top-ranked content was spammy, oversexualized or generally what the company classified as regrettable. But the company’s executives and researchers were growing embarrassed that its widely viewed content report, a quarterly survey of the posts with the broadest reach, …

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Kremlin critics stay undaunted after yearlong crackdown
2 years, 11 months ago

Kremlin critics stay undaunted after yearlong crackdown

The Independent  

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Putin’s critics at home are bloodied but unbowed after a harsh yearlong crackdown
2 years, 11 months ago

Putin’s critics at home are bloodied but unbowed after a harsh yearlong crackdown

LA Times  

People clash with police in St. Petersburg, Russia, during a protest against the jailing of opposition leader Alexei Navalny in January 2021. “Legal opposition politics in Russia ended almost entirely,” said Irina Fatyanova, former head of Navalny’s office in St. Petersburg, who has fled the country. “Repressions have always been used during Putin’s tenure, but they were supplementary” to other …

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Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk shrugs off resignation of Queensland's integrity watchdog
2 years, 11 months ago

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk shrugs off resignation of Queensland's integrity watchdog

ABC  

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has shrugged off the resignation of the state's integrity watchdog midway through her second three-year term. Key points: The state's integrity watchdog resigned after raising governance issues and staffing shortages in a report last year Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says the cabinet will review a "very serious" report into the Crime and Corruption Commission in the next …

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Queensland Integrity Commissioner says staff shortages are crippling watchdog's capacity
3 years, 3 months ago

Queensland Integrity Commissioner says staff shortages are crippling watchdog's capacity

ABC  

Staffing shortages have crippled Queensland’s integrity watchdog, leaving the commissioner with as few as one staff member and the inability to respond to dozens of queries about issues like potential conflicts of interest. Key points: The Queensland Integrity Commissioner's staffing situation has been described as "alarming" by a leading transparency expert A reduction in staffing — coupled with a surge …

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