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An anti-trans pressure campaign claims that sharing pronouns is 'regressive, sexist and homophobic' (Gabe Ginsberg/Getty) Anti-trans activists are attempting to pressure companies to ban pronouns in staff email signatures through anonymous letter-writing. An email template is currently circulating in “gender critical” circles on Mumsnet, Substack, Facebook and Twitter. Purportedly first sent to a law firm, it claims to be from an anonymous client who’s concerned by the pronouns they’ve seen in staff email signatures, describing this as “a political statement on an extremely controversial and divisive issue”. A Mumsnet user claiming to be a friend of the letter writer shared the template on the parenting forum on 31 October, with the idea that others can “adapt it” and send it on. “This is an email a friend wrote to a law firm about how seeing pronouns in their staff emails makes her feel, as a woman,” the user said. “Apparently it may have worked as the male lawyer stopped putting pronouns in his signature. She wants other women to adapt it. She set up a gmail account in another name as she didn’t want her email to result in negative treatment from the staff, but wanted the firm to know…

In an exclusive interview with The Hindu, Snap Inc’s Head of Market Development Durgesh Kaushik spoke about the company’s the India milestone, and how the company achieved it. Snapchat, the camera-based social network, hit the 100-million-users milestone in India a few weeks ago. Snap Inc’s Co-Founder and CEO Evan Spiegel announced at the virtual Snap for India 2021 event that the app also attained 70% growth in net new advertisers in 2020, helped by diversification in monetisation streams for content creators on the app.In an exclusive interview with The Hindu, Snap Inc’s Head of Market Development Durgesh Kaushik spoke about the company’s India milestone, and how the company achieved it.The transcript has been edited for brevity.(Sign up to our Technology newsletter, Today's Cache, for insights on emerging themes at the intersection of technology, business and policy. Click here to subscribe for free.)How has engagement on Snapchat increased in India? What has helped the growth?We started operations in India in 2019. And for the last seven quarters we have registered over 100% growth in daily active users. We have also noticed a 150% year-on-year growth in engagement on the platform. We have also seen growth in terms of the total time spent watching…

News National RNZ An independent review into the access and use of client information within ACC will be led by prominent lawyer Linda Clark. This story was first published by RNZ The review was announced after RNZ revealed a group of ACC staff shared and laughed at client information in a private Snapchat group, amid recent concerns around inappropriate access to sensitive claims which relate to sexual abuse. It follows a decision by ACC management to suspend 14 staff due to alleged inappropriate access and use of client information. This included 12 staff allegedly sharing client information in a private Snapchat group. ACC said internal investigations led by the acting chief executive are now under way. The terms of reference, released by the Treasury and the ACC board today, show the review will look at two key areas: the number of staff who have access to client information and the alleged inappropriate access and use of client information among staff. The review will take up to six months to complete, though ACC management would continue to make operational improvements where they were needed. ACC Board chair Hon Steve Maharey said the board took the privacy and management of customers personal…

Following a social media suspension, the teacher turned OnlyFans celebrity has decided to leave her X-rated career. Shahira Barry, a former teacher turned glamour model from Galway, claims she deleted her X-rated OnlyFans account after being barred from other social media platforms including TikTok and Snapchat. After being banned from other social media platforms, a former teacher turned glamour model confessed she deleted her X-rated OnlyFans account. OnlyFans, according to Shahira Barry of Galway, cost her other possible sales since it wasn’t “brand friendly.” During the pandemic, the brunette, whose resume includes parties with Hugh Hefner in the Playboy mansion and serving as Kim Kardashian’s body double, created a profile on the explicit subscription-based site. The part-Bangladeshi beauty, who has been living the Hollywood dream for several years, quickly realized it wasn’t for her, admitting she was “naive” to the dangers. “I don’t use OnlyFans anymore,” the model told Galway Beo. During the epidemic, I set it up, but I didn’t like it. “It was just not for me, and it took up far too much of my time, but I never intended for it to be a full-time job.” “A lot of my employment had ceased at the time,…

The document based on the Short Video Applications industry is a collection of vital information on all the matters allied with the industry. The report provides an unbiased and updated scenario of all comprehensive data about all financial elements and strategic developments that influence growth probabilities in market. Growth pattern and strategies being adopted by the entities in the Short Video Applications market are studied in detail in the report. The study analyzes the growth pattern observed in the performance of the Short Video Applications market on level. The factors that are likely to have an impact on the Short Video Applications industry performance are studied in depth in the industry report. The research also provides detailed data on every deliberate movement in the market. In addition to that, the study also includes the analysis of all the social, political, environmental and economical matters anticipated to impact the industry growth. Vendor Landscape and Profiling: Facebook (Instagram) Instagram LinkedIn Snap (Snapchat) Byte Dance (Tik Tok) Twitter Vimeo Pinterest Flipgrid (Vidku) Tencent SNOW(B612) Beijing Wei Ran Internet Technology Meipai Yixia Kuaishou (Kwai Go) Doupai Joyy (YY) Google (YouTuBe GO) DO Global (DU Recorder) House Party Meitu Mobile Motion Shanghai Kuanyu Digital Technology…

A Bronx teacher was arrested after “sending a picture of her genitals to her students on Snapchat and improperly touching a girl in the classroom.” Teacher Alexander Guzman, 26, was accused of molesting a 16-year-old girl and using social media to send pictures of her genitals to her students. Bronx Law, Government, and Justice School teachers reportedly sent lewd images to two 16-year-old students and one 18-year-old student. He was also accused of telling the girls that he was “pretty” and “had a good body.” One of the 16-year-old teens claimed to have forced her to kiss her while the teacher was in the classroom and tampered with her pants. He was arrested around 11:00 pm on Friday and faces numerous charges, including exacerbation of sexual misconduct and harassment. Natasha Anderson of the Daily Mail.com Release: Eastern Standard Time 01:56, November 7, 2021 | Has been updated: Eastern Standard Time 01:05, November 7, 2021 Bronx teachers were arrested on Friday and allegedly sent pictures of their genitals to three students, who were charged with numerous sexual crimes after improperly touching one on school grounds. According to police, 26-year-old Alexander Guzman forced a 16-year-old student to kiss and put his hands…

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CAMBRIDGE — A 24-year old Cambridge woman pled guilty Wednesday, Nov. 3, in district court to a charge of making a threat of mass violence in connection with a Snapchat video.The prosecution dropped the other charges against Sonia Morales as part of a plea deal over an Aug. 16 incident during which she displayed a loaded firearm and threatened several people in a group chat on the social media app.Judge Heather Price sentenced Morales to three years in jail, with all suspended except for the 80 days she has served and two years of supervised probation.“I sincerely apologize, and I will never let it happen again,” said Morales in post sentencing remarks to the court.The arresting officer from the Cambridge Police Department described the Snapchat video as showing Morales laying in bed waving the handgun around in a “very care free” way before pointing the gun at the camera multiple times, pretending to make a shooting motion with the gun. Morales also showed the bullets loaded into the magazine for the gun in the video.The report also indicated that a juvenile was sitting on the same bed as Morales while she was taking the video. Officers talked to the two…