Tech Soup

MAY 31, 2013

VietNet-ICT also actively participates in policy discussions to formulate laws and policies relating to information, technology, and communication towards sustainable development and equity. The organization has a particular mission to help charities (particularly those who work to aid women) and to promote gender equality.

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Engadget

MARCH 18, 2025

Wynn-Williams worked closely with the companys top executives, traveling around the world with Mark Zuckerberg and former COO Sheryl Sandberg as they met with foreign leaders and shaped the policies that would define Facebook. This policy applied not only to internal meetings with others at Facebook, but heads of state.

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The Verge

JANUARY 25, 2021

On January 6th, WhatsApp users around the world began seeing a pop-up message notifying them of upcoming changes to the service’s privacy policy. The resulting furor sparked a backlash that led Facebook-owned WhatsApp to delay the policy from taking effect until May. It’s not only that Signal doesn’t have these policies in place.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 3, 2025

The earthquakes that struck Myanmar on March 28, 2025, collapsing buildings and causing over 2,700 deaths , were a sobering reminder of the risks and the need for preparation. Earthquakes and the damage they cause are apolitical. Collectively, we either prepare for future earthquakes or the population eventually pays the price. In the U.S.,

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

That isn't the case with Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed and Lost Idealism by Sarah Wynn-Williams, former and first head of global policy at Facebook. The UN has traced Myanmar's 2017 genocide to Facebook posts which the company belatedly took down.) Back in the U.S. Meta has denied the allegations.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Among the disparities: Facebook lacked misinformation classifiers in Myanmar, Pakistan, and Ethiopia, countries designated at highest risk last year. But the Facebook Papers offer a detailed look into where Facebook provides a higher standard of care — and where it doesn’t.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 8, 2025

A deep dive into its company history, policies, and transparency efforts revealed plenty of excellent reasons for the hype, albeit a couple of hitches. Proton VPN privacy policy and transparency efforts Proton VPN is technically covered by two privacy policies: the main Proton Privacy Policy and Proton VPN 's own sub-policy.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Facebook has designated Myanmar a “temporary high-risk location” after a coup earlier this week, saying it will remove “any calls to bring armaments” and protect posts criticizing the country’s military. According to BuzzFeed , Facebook’s Asia-Pacific policy director, Rafael Frankel, outlined its coup response in a message to employees.

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The Verge

JULY 15, 2021

In other cases, the company faces blowback because it exercises its right to moderate content as it sees fit: leaving up a manipulated video of Nancy Pelosi, say, or defending a decade-old policy permitting Holocaust deniers on the platform. That policy was reversed last year.)

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The Verge

AUGUST 20, 2020

Facebook also took down thousands of accounts, pages and groups as part of what they called a “policy expansion,” seeking to limit violent rhetoric tied to QAnon, political militias and protest groups like antifa. But coded messages are harder to discern, particularly by policy teams that have not invested in unscrambling them.

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The Verge

AUGUST 19, 2020

Enforcement of those misinformation policies has sometimes lagged behind the companies’ public statements, though. In 2020, this is what successful content policy looks like: you can’t prevent every bad thing from ever being uploaded, but you can identify it quickly and take effective action. Matthew Smith / Time ).

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The Verge

JUNE 9, 2020

This gap between our content policy and our values has eroded our effectiveness in combating hate and racism on Reddit; I accept full responsibility for this. [.]. Carman writes: Boss-Moms is one of many Facebook groups grappling with inadequate moderation policies as members attempt to discuss Black Lives Matter. The Ratio. ??

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The Verge

MAY 29, 2020

They can advise on Facebook’s policies and even overrule Facebook’s CEO. As my colleague Casey Newton wrote in 2018, it took a genocide in Myanmar for Facebook to realize that some speech is so hateful it can’t be kept up just because it’s newsworthy. Executives reportedly ignored it.)

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Facebook tried to crack down on QAnon with new policies targeting extremist content. In July, the company banned more than 7,000 QAnon-linked accounts, but its enforcement policy was murky when it came to elected officials. Facebook’s slow response to the threat of ethnic cleansing in Myanmar is the textbook example.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Facebook rolled out a series of changes ahead of the election in Myanmar on November 8th. The company invested in proactive detection technology to catch hate speech on the platform, and expanded its misinformation policy to include false news aimed at suppressing the vote. (Elizabeth Dwoskin and Craig Timberg / The Washington Post ).

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