Facebook has been accused of breaking equality law in the way it handles job adverts. Campaign group Global Witness said it failed to prevent discriminatory targeting of ads and its algorithm was biased in choosing who would see them. In an experiment, almost all Facebook users shown adverts for mechanics were men, while ads for […]
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2021-09-08. News organisations from Colombia, Mexico, Panama and Uruguay will be part of the first “Newsroom & Business Transformation Program” in Latin America. After the successful launches in Asia and the Middle East last year, WAN-IFRA is expanding the programme to the Latin American region, with the support of the Facebook Journalism Project. The following
2021-09-08. As the gaming industry’s audience size surpasses the film, music and television industries combined, news publishers around the world need to give the sector the recognition it deserves. “Out of the 2.7 billion game players worldwide, almost 1.5 billion of them are right here in the APAC region. Unlike decades ago, this is no
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the authorities in Hadramout governorate, in eastern Yemen, to guarantee the safety of three Yemeni freelance journalists who fled the country in 2015 to avoid abduction by Al-Qaeda and who are now the targets of a death threat by a governorate official because they have been denouncing corruption in
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2021-09-07. Nordkurier, a news publisher based in the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in the country’s northeast, has created a weekly newsletter that aims to strengthen the bonds between people who used to live in the region with the area’s present and its future. Today, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern is home to about 1.6 million people, which makes it
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2021-09-07. Advertising is a predominant revenue stream in the Indian media digital space. The past 15 years have seen a constant struggle for advertisers’ budgets, with brands usually choosing big platforms with more data and users. [Sponsored Content] Piano is an SaaS platform strategic services company whose clients include 700 news media businesses, such as
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the immediate and unconditional release of Ma Thuzar, a journalist held arbitrarily since her arrest for no clear reason in Yangon, Myanmar’s biggest city, a week ago after four months in hiding. Her family and colleagues spent five days without any news of her after she was snatched by
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The Russian embassy in France has reacted to a report by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on Internet censorship in Russia by accusing RSF of bias but, amazingly, in the course of so doing, it has referred to a Russian foreign ministry report on human rights violations in other countries that quotes RSF extensively (and selectively).
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) Secretary-General Christophe Deloire responds to the editor-in-chief of Chinese official media Global Times, who in a paranoid and incoherent editorial made thinly veiled threats to the organisation. In an editorial published on Saturday, 2nd October, the editor-in-chief of the Chinese official media Global Times, Hu Xijin, violently attacked press freedom organisation Reporters Without Borders
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European financial institutions must keep their environmental commitments beyond EU borders. For years in the Kazakh village of Sarykamys, people would go to sleep in their beds and never wake up again. It was not the peaceful end to a long life, but a sudden end that struck people as young as 25. The locals
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