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Facebook removed 800 pages and accounts for spreading fake news

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by on October 12, 2018 at 9:34 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider


In a move to fight fake news, Facebook yesterday said it deleted more than 800 pages and accounts. The company claims it removed 559 pages and 251 accounts for spreading disinformation, political spam, and inauthentic activity. Facebook’s head of cybersecurity, Nathaniel Gleicher said: People need to be able to trust the connections they make on Facebook. It’s why we have a policy banning coordinated inauthentic behavior — networks of accounts or Pages working to mislead others about who they are, and what they are doing. Oscar Rodriguez, a Product Manager at Facebook, said that US midterm elections played a big…

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13 cutting-edge tech trends industry insiders intend to leverage (and how you can, too)

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by on October 12, 2018 at 9:00 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Contributors


Cutting-edge tech trends are in a constant state of flux. With so many to choose from, and newer ones still appearing, it may be tricky to navigate which tech to invest time and energy in. To find out which popular tech trends are here to stay and effective enough to improve company ROI, I asked a panel of entrepreneurs from YEC the following question: Following recent popular tech trends, what is one in particular that your company intends to leverage and how? Their best answers are below: 1. AI and ML for SEO We intend on leveraging the advances in artificial…

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No black scientist has ever won a Nobel Prize — that’s bad for science and society

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by on October 12, 2018 at 8:01 am
Posted In: Around the Web, syndication


Many in the scientific world are celebrating the fact that two women received this year’s Nobel prizes in physics and chemistry. Donna Strickland and Frances Arnold are only the 20th and 21st female scientists to be recognized by the Nobel Committee. Yet in over 100 years, we have never seen a black scientist become a Nobel laureate. Every year, the annual October Nobel Prize announcements coincide with Black History Month, which is a painful reminder that of the more than 900 Nobel laureates, only 14 (1.5%) have been black and none in science. Almost all black laureates have been awarded…

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