CBS 8: Facebook takes down ads mentioning African-Americans and Hispanics, calling them political. “Dozens of advertisements removed from Facebook for being political ahead of the November midterm elections did not appear to express any political view, a USA TODAY analysis showed. The Facebook ads from businesses, universities, nonprofits and other organizations did seem to have something in common: They mentioned ‘African-American,’ ‘Latino,’ ‘Hispanic,’ ‘Mexican,’ ‘women,’ ‘LGBT’ or were written in Spanish. Even offers of free delivery from Chipotle Mexican Grill were mislabeled as political until an inquiry from USA TODAY.”
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Civic Media: Twitter suspended me for tweeting feminist academic research. Here’s why that’s a problem.
Civic Media: Twitter suspended me for tweeting feminist academic research. Here’s why that’s a problem.. “This morning, I did what I always, lamentably, do, which is wake up and check Twitter. I noticed that the account for MIT, where I work as an admissions officer and research affiliate, had tweeted a story about Math Prize for Girls, an annual competition, hosted on campus last weekend, for women with an affinity for STEM. I’m a longtime fan and supporter of Math Prize. In fact, I had spoken at the competition, giving a talk about applying to MIT (and colleges in general) as a mathematically inclined women. As part of that talk, I mentioned that research has shown the gendering of science to be a historical, not a natural, phenomenon.”
Ars Technica: Sorry, Sony Music, you don’t own the rights to Bach’s music on Facebook
Ars Technica: Sorry, Sony Music, you don’t own the rights to Bach’s music on Facebook. “Sony Music Entertainment has been forced to abandon its claim that it owned 47 seconds of video of musician James Rhodes using his own piano to play music written by Johann Sebastian Bach.”
TechCrunch: Weak passwords let a hacker access internal Sprint staff portal
TechCrunch: Weak passwords let a hacker access internal Sprint staff portal . “It’s not been a great week for cell carriers. EE was hit with two security bugs and T-Mobile admitted a data breach. Now, Sprint is the latest phone giant to admit a security lapse, TechCrunch has learned.”
Washington Post: 1,464 Western Australian government officials used ‘Password123’ as their password. Cool, cool.
Washington Post: 1,464 Western Australian government officials used ‘Password123’ as their password. Cool, cool.. “Somewhere in Western Australia, a government IT employee is probably laughing or crying or pulling their hair out (or maybe all of the above). A security audit of the Western Australian government released by the state’s auditor general this week found that 26 percent of its officials had weak, common passwords — including more than 5,000 including the word ‘password’ out of 234,000 in 17 government agencies.”
BBC: Facebook rejects Montreal museum’s ad over Picasso nude
BBC: Facebook rejects Montreal museum’s ad over Picasso nude. “The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts online ad for its big summer exhibit was blocked because it showed abstract breasts painted by the modern master. The museum eventually had to reach out directly to Facebook in order to get the posts authorised.”
Barefaced cheek: Rubens nudes fall foul of Facebook censors (The Guardian)
The Guardian: Barefaced cheek: Rubens nudes fall foul of Facebook censors. “Rubens nudes have entranced those visiting the world’s great art galleries for some 400 years. Contemporaries on whom the Flemish master is said to have had a profound impact include Van Dyck and Rembrandt … but none of this has passed muster with Facebook’s censors.”
