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Feb
04
2023
By The African Mirror
Nigeria asks social media giants to curb fake news ahead of election

Nigeria asks social media giants to curb fake news ahead of election

NEWS
FELIX ONUAH NIGERIA has asked Google and Meta to control the spread of fake news on their platforms ahead of a presidential election this month, Information Minister Lai Mohammed said on Friday. Nigerians go to the polls on February 25 to elect a new president, with three frontrunners promising to deal with the rising cost of living, insecurity and a slow-growing economy. Mohammed said he met with Meta and Google representatives in Abuja on Friday and requested that they make posts from official channels visible on their platforms, and flag them as unverified election results originating from unofficial sources. He also asked…
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Feb
19
2021
By The African Mirror
Trans model Munroe Bergdorf urges social media giants to tackle abuse

Trans model Munroe Bergdorf urges social media giants to tackle abuse

LGBT+
RACHEL SAVAGE WITH online abuse pushing her to quit Twitter, transgender model Munroe Bergdorf has called for social media companies to act faster to tackle racism and transphobia on their platforms. The Black trans model, who said she regularly receives threats and waits hours for racist comments about her to be deleted, called on social media firms to invest in minorities to design algorithms to better protect themselves from abuse. "If you can censor a nipple and a picture gets taken down with a nipple on it straight away ... then why can't you develop an algorithm that targets transphobic…
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