Sachini Kavindya

Australia sues Facebook over scam ads impersonating celebrities

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Australia has launched legal action against Facebook’s parent company Meta, alleging it allowed scam ads to target users with fake celebrity endorsements. The tech giant had engaged in “false, misleading or deceptive conduct” by knowingly hosting the ads for bogus cryptocurrencies, a regulator said. The US company could face financial and other penalties. Meta is […]

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BehindTheHeadlines: With journalism in Creole, Mensagem de Lisboa is reaching new audiences

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2022-03-18. Community-focused news outlet Mensagem de Lisboa, based in Lisbon, Portugal, has been publishing professional journalistic content in Creole since December. In the build up to World News Day on 28 September 2022, a global campaign by the Canadian Journalism Foundation and the World Editors Forum to show why journalism matters, we will be going

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Two Ugandan journalists jailed for “cyber-stalking” president

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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the immediate release of two Ugandan journalists who have been held since a raid on their office on 10 March on charges of “cyber-stalking” President Yoweri Museveni and “offensive communication.” Seven colleagues were also arrested in the same raid but have since been released. The two journalists still held

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RSF files second complaint with the International Criminal Court about deliberate Russian military attacks on journalists

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Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, Russian forces have deliberately fired on at least eight journalists or media crews. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has filed a second complaint with the International Criminal Court. Submitted on March 16, RSF’s second complaint calls on the ICC’s chief prosecutor to investigate crimes committed against journalists by

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Mali bans local broadcasts by leading French radio and TV news outlets

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The announcement by Mali’s military junta that it plans to suspend local radio and TV news broadcasts by Radio France Internationale (RFI) and France 24 for reporting abuses by the Malian army and its Russian mercenary allies constitutes an attack on press freedom that will hurt the Malian public and all journalists and media in

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War in Ukraine – List of journalists who are victims gets longer by the day

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Since the start of the Russian offensive in Ukraine, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has documented attacks directly targeting journalists wearing a “Press” armband, and has seen more and more of them killed or injured in the course of their work. RSF offers support to journalists in the field and calls on the Russian and Ukrainian

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Ukraine offered tool to search billions of faces

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A system that searches a database of billions of facial images could help Ukraine uncover Russian infiltrators, fight misinformation and identify the dead, a company has said. Facial recognition firm Clearview AI has offered its services to Ukraine’s government. The company says it has a searchable database of 10 billion faces sourced from the web.

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After new Mali hostage video, RSF urges renewed efforts to get him freed

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Following the past weekend’s circulation of a new undated video of Olivier Dubois, a French journalist held hostage in Mali for the past 11 months, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the French and Malian authorities to redouble efforts to obtain his release. A reassuring proof of life, the video’s appearance on social media came

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Green Challenge

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Green Challange As World Health Day with its theme ‘Our Planet, Our Health’ comes close, WHOSL would love to hear about your contribution to making our world a safer and healthier place Take a photo of your contribution and share onyour social media tagging WHO Sri Lanka The best entries will be on the WHOSL Facebook and

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War in Ukraine: Facebook to allow calls for violence against Putin

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The owner of Facebook and Instagram will allow users in some countries to call for violence against Vladimir Putin and Russian soldiers. Meta says it has temporarily made allowances for some violent speech, like “death to the Russian invaders,” that would usually break its rules. However, it says it won’t permit calls for violence against

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