Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Youtube and TikTok failing to act on most reported anti-Jewish posts, says studyThere has been a serious and systemic failure to tackle antisemitism across the five biggest social media platforms, resulting in a “safe spac…
Sky News Australia banned from YouTube for seven days over Covid misinformation
Digital giant issues strike after channel posted videos denying the existence of Covid and encouraging people to use discredited medicationFollow our Covid live blog for the latest updatesVaccine rollout tracker; get our free news app; get our morning …
Chunkz: ‘I paved the way for myself as a YouTuber’
The social media phenomenon on honouring his Somali heritage, balancing fame and faith, and spending lockdown with his YouTube Beta Squad“It was the scariest day of my life,” says Amin Mohamed, AKA Chunkz, of the day in 2016 that he told his parents he…
テクニカルサポート詐欺に対抗する YouTube チャンネル、偽 YouTube サポートに騙されてチャンネルを削除
テクニカルサポート詐欺対策の動画を公開している YouTube クリエイターが偽の YouTube サポートに騙され、YouTube チャンネルを削除してしまったそうだ(Jim Browning 氏のツイート、
The Register の記事)。
クリエイターの Jim Browning 氏は主に、詐欺に引っかかったふりをして摘発に協力する「scam baiting」動画を YouTube チャンネル (Internet Archive のスナップショット) で公開していた。しかし、偽の You…
YouTube Channel ‘Tech Support Scams’ Taken Offline By Tech Support Scam
The Tech Support Scams YouTube channel, operated by host and creator Jim Browning, was deleted after a tech support scam convinced Browning that the only way to secure his account was to delete it. The Register reports: “So to prove that anyone can be …
YouTube Punishes Brazil’s President For Spreading Lies About COVID
YouTube has removed videos posted by Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro for violating its content policies, in the strongest measure yet that tech giants in the social media-loving country have taken toward censoring the president. VICE News reports: YouTube has …
Alphabet crushes Q2 earnings estimates as Google Cloud cuts losses, grows 54%
Today after the bell amidst a deluge of major technology company earnings reports, Alphabet reported its own second-quarter performance.
Instagram now supports 60-second videos on Reels, its TikTok clone
Haven’t you heard that Instagram is no longer a photo-sharing app? Today, Instagram announced that users can now upload 60-second videos on Reels, the platform’s TikTok competitor. This update also adds functionality for a captions sticker on Reels, which transcribes audio to text. Instagram previously teased this sticker for Reels when they added it to […]
YouTube Stars Were Offered Money to Spread Vaccine Misinformation
“A mysterious marketing agency secretly offered to pay social media stars to spread disinformation about Covid-19 vaccines,” reports the BBC.
“Their plan failed when the influencers went public about the attempt to recruit them.”
An influencer marke…
仏サッカー選手デンベレの動画は本当に差別？ 謝罪は？〜日仏YouTube、Twitterで検証
名門サッカーチームのバルセロナに所属する著名な選手のデンベレ選手とグリーズマン選手がSNSした映像が、人種差別だと問題視され拡散され、両選手はSNSで謝罪。
ところがその内容も謝罪とは言えず言い訳だと批判されている。
彼らの動画は本当に差別的なのか、３名の日本大好きフランス人と１名の在フランス日本人女性、フランス在住の日仏国際結婚カップルのYouTube動画から検証してみたい。