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Haaretz | Israel NewsJournalist Marwat Al-Azza, a freelancer working for NBC, allegedly mocked the kidnapping of an elderly Israeli woman from a Gaza border community on October 7. The Magistrate’s Court ordered her detention extended by four daysMarwat Al-Azza, a Palestinian journalist from East Jerusalem, was arrested on Friday on charges of inciting and disseminating materials encouraging terrorism. ICYMIAre All Israelis ‘Colonialists’ Who Deserve to Die?The Tragedy of Al-Shifa Hospital: Israel's Biggest Moral Challenge in the Gaza WarThere's Only One Viable Postwar Strategy for Gaza, but Netanyahu Has Other Plans'We Barely See Terrorists. They’re Underground': In Gaza With Israeli SoldiersAmalia Dayan Never Encountered Antisemitism in N.Y.C. Then Came October 7Israel's Deadly Complacency Wasn't Just an Intelligence Failure  » Read More

More than 200 publishers, journalists and media practitioners attended on November 9 the Korea Press Foundation Journalism Conference 2023 on “AI and the Transformation of the News Industry” , aimed at exploring the impact of AI technology on journalism.Speakers included Elena Perotti, Executive Director of Public Affairs and Media Policy at WAN-IFRA, Charlie Beckett, Professor in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science, Ernest Kung, AI Product Manager at the Associated Press, and Elyse Samuels, Senior Producer of Visual Forensics at the Washington Post.Elena Perotti, spoke of “AI and News Business Transformation” before a select group of media publishers, and she gave an overview of the current use of Artificial Intelligence in newsrooms, the potential for the future and the efforts of governments and international coalitions to regulate the matter. She said that publishing houses should adopt internal guidelines for the use of AI, thoroughly train their staff and join forces in taking measures to ensure that their content is not used by AI models without autorisation and fair compensation.  » Read More

A well-intended birthday message including a picture of a personalised cake, left one mum with a hefty bill after her daughter's friend got confused. People are in stitches over itThis picture of a cake was used by mum Virginia in a Facebook post mishap - when the birthday girl thought Virginia had bought it for her (Image: Twitter)One mum was left mortified after an innocent Facebook birthday message ended up costing her an eye-watering £200. Whenever it is someone's birthday, their Facebook wall is often full of birthday posts and pictures. While most mums are savvy with the social media platform, this parent learned the hard way after an akward blunder. Virginia Kavanagh wanted to wish her daughter's friend Beth a happy birthday as she was turning 18. But her well-intended, sweet message caused a costly misunderstanding when Virginia also included an image of a Frozen-themed birthday cake. The mum said she chose the image as it had 'Beth' written on the side of internet cake.  » Read More

NewsPublished: Nov. 17, 2023, 12:52 p.m.A Facebook post concerning Israel’s military from a Montgomery County school board member sparked outrage in the community.As a result, that newly re-elected member has resigned, according to news reports.The since-deleted post was made by Dr. Jamina Clay.In the social media post, the former Colonial School Board member and assistant superintendent for the Philadelphia School District called the Israel Defense Force a “terroristic organization.”Her remarks sparked a firestorm among multiple communities and local Jewish groups.“The main thing that sticks out as harmful, not just hurtful but harmful, was calling the Israel Defense Force a terrorist organization,” Rabbi Glenn Ettman of Congregation Or Ami said to NBC10. “Words do matter. Words have influence and certainly words that come from people who are elected officials hold even more weight because of the position in which they hold.”Clay later submitted her letter of resignation from the Colonial School District on Thursday in addition to posting an apology on Facebook.  » Read More

CHICAGO (Gray News) – A 3-year-old dog at an animal shelter in Chicago has found his forever home after his story went viral.The Anti-Cruelty Society said Elvis was the only dog that did not find a forever family during their Fall in Love adoption event.The shelter shared photos on Facebook of Elvis earlier this week, who was sadly left behind as the only dog in the kennels.However, after receiving nationwide attention, Elvis was adopted on Friday.Elvis is a 3-year-old “meatball” with a silly personality, the shelter said.(The Anti-Cruelty Society)The shelter shared an update on Facebook, saying Elvis was going home with a local couple, Loren and Drew.They shared a photo of the happy family.The shelter said it was fate for Elvis to end up with Loren, who has worked as an Elvis impersonator in the past.“This couple is head over heels in love with their new family member and already has a dog bed and tons of toys waiting for him at his forever home,” the shelter wrote.  » Read More

Dustin Moskovitz called for Elon Musk to resign after he agreed with an antisemitic post.Musk replied to a post that accused Jewish groups of "hatred against whites," calling it the "actual truth."Musk has also threatened to sue the ADL after it reported a rise in hate speech on X. Loading Something is loading. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you're on the go. Facebook cofounder and Asana CEO Dustin Moskovitz said Elon Musk should resign after Musk called an antisemitic post on X the "actual truth.""I call on Elon Musk to resign," Moskovitz said Wednesday in a post on Threads.He later posted that Musk should resign "(from everything)." The Tesla CEO has a hand in six companies, including SpaceX and X, formerly known as Twitter.Moskovitz's comments came after a Wednesday exchange on X in which a user called for an end to antisemitism.  » Read More

One word you can always use to describe Toledo is “Creative.” Creativity has breathed life into Toledo from its early days of earning the title as the Glass City, and continues to thrive with local theater, music, art and more.  It can be difficult to find your niche in the Toledo creative scene, or to network with other creatives and find new opportunities. However, one Facebook group is working to connect all individuals into one big group: Toledo Creatives.  Sparking an idea Ellen Dziubek Ellen Dziubek, a local creative, started the Facebook group back in 2019 after bonding with her photographer friend Jake Weber about the lonely lifestyle of freelancing.  “Despite the excitement and variety of ‘gig life,’ you don’t get the structure and familiarity of having coworkers,” Dziubek said.  Toledo Creatives was originally supposed to turn into a creative coworking space where they hoped to replicate that structure, but they didn’t want to act on the idea until they had talked to more members of the creative community.  RELATED: Finch & Fern Book Co.: A Bookstore for the Community The group had two initial meetings,  » Read More

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain We have reached a key juncture in the debate about online privacy, following Meta's recent decision to offer some users paid-for ad-free access to Facebook and Instagram. The time has come to decide how much we value keeping our data, tastes and whereabouts to ourselves. The main and often only way that free-to-use online services such as Google, Facebook, Instagram or TikTok make money is by selling data about user preferences to advertisers. And since the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into effect in the EU and the UK in 2018, firms have been allowed to track and sell this data to third parties, so long as they seek your explicit consent beforehand. Most companies complied with GDPR by introducing those annoying pop-up windows that we've all come to know and hate when we open up a website. Popups are not explicitly required by the regulations, but they make clicking "OK" for tracking the easy choice, so they have been widely adopted by companies.  » Read More

Half a million hopefuls waiting for a check from the massive $725 million Facebook privacy settlement received a rejection letter over the past ...  » Read More