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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Study finds Google Play app privacy labels are ‘false or misleading’  The Verge Source link

Every article you can find online about Google ranking factors will tell you there are at least ~200 or so odd variables that contribute to how a site will perform in the SERPs.  That being said, there’s an enormous difference between what might impact SEO, what’s actually confirmed as a ranking factor, and what is simply a good principle to rank well. It might sound like semantics, but “best practices” don’t just automatically translate… Source link

Kyrie Irving apologized Thursday for posting a documentary with antisemitic conspiracy theories and falsehoods on Twitter, a few hours after he was suspended five games without pay by the Brooklyn Nets. The apology, published on Instagram, came a little more than a week after the Nets star posted the offensive tweet, which has since been deleted. Irving conceded the video “contained some false anti-Semitic statements, narratives, and languages that were untrue and offensive to the Jewish… Source link

Internet users’ private messages, files, and photos of everyday people are increasingly being examined by tech companies, which check the data against government databases. While this is not a new practice, the public is being told this massive scanning should extend to nearly every reach of their online activity so that police can more productively investigate crimes related to child sexual abuse images, sometimes called CSAM.  We don’t know much about how the public gets watched in… Source link

On the same day that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention eased COVID-19 guidelines, the Food and Drug Administration issued a statement warning that at-home rapid antigen tests can deliver false negative results and people who need tests should should plan to do so more than once to make sure they are not “unknowingly spreading the SARS-CoV-2 virus to others.” Health experts recommend tests for people who have been exposed to the virus or are experiencing symptoms. “Today’s… Source link

A Russian tech giant mostly owned by western investors is helping websites pushing false claims about the war in Ukraine to make thousands of dollars every day through digital advertising. Yandex is considered Russia’s equivalent to Google, running both a search engine and an extensive digital advertising business. Its deputy CEO, Tigran Khudaverdyan, resigned this month after the European Union imposed sanctions on him. The Bureau for Investigative Journalism has discovered… Source link

Facebook parent Meta (FB) is warning Ukrainian users that a Russia-linked hacking group is trying to take over user high-profile accounts to spread disinformation about Russia’s invasion. According to Nathaniel Gleicher, head of security policy at Meta, a Belarus-based group, known as Ghostwriter, is trying to compromise high-profile Ukrainians’ user accounts to sow discord among the local population amid Russia’s physical attack. “They were targeting and taking over, or attempting to… Source link

Google said it will no longer display advertisements on YouTube videos and other content that promote inaccurate claims about climate change. The decision, by the company’s ads team, means that it will no longer permit websites or YouTube creators to earn advertising money via Google for content that “contradicts well-established scientific consensus around the existence and causes of climate change.” And it will not allow ads that promote such views from appearing. “In recent years,… Source link

Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and John Kennedy (R-LA) sent a letter to a key student loan servicer CEO over “what appear to be false and misleading” statements during a congressional testimony on April 13, Yahoo Finance has learned. “We write to seek information on what appears to be false and misleading testimony that you provided at a hearing before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs’ Subcommittee on Economic Policy on April 13, 2021,” they wrote.  Warren, the chair… Source link

Rudy Giuliani, the former personal attorney for former President Donald Trump, was suspended Thursday from practicing law in New York. Giuliani, who was also a New York City mayor and U.S. attorney, had propagated baseless claims of widespread voter fraud and tried to persuade state legislators to override the will of the voters during the 2020 presidential election A New York appellate court found that “there is uncontroverted evidence that respondent communicated demonstrably false and… Source link