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Sopa Images / SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Searches for the word “dog” on Instagram’s stories feature are showing an emoji for a takeout box associated with Chinese American food, angering people who are concerned the app is reinforcing racist stereotypes. An Instagram employee noticed the issue over the weekend, according to a post on an

Ben Kothe / BuzzFeed News; Getty Images (3) The propagandist who called himself Azym Abdullah didn’t need much money to set up a website for ISIS that would broadcast gruesome beheading videos. What he needed was secrecy, so in 2014 he reportedly turned to cryptocurrency. He paid a little more than 1 bitcoin, approximately $400

Twitter is striking a defiant note in its struggle with India over restricting accounts in the country. On Monday, the company released its first official response since India’s government demanded it reblock more than 250 accounts it had restored in defiance of an IT ministry order. Among the blocked accounts were Caravan, a news magazine,

Jose Luis Gonzalez / Reuters Border Patrol agents in parts of Texas have started to release some undocumented immigrant families after Mexican authorities refused to take them back under a Trump-era policy that has expelled thousands of people who have illegally crossed into the US. It marks a significant shift from recent years, when former

Jack Guez / Getty Images A health worker administers a dose of the Pfizer-BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine in Petah Tikva, Israel, on Feb. 1. More than six weeks after Israel began a COVID-19 vaccine rollout that has left the rest of the world trailing in its wake, public health experts are breathing a sigh of relief

Over the last two years, the government of Pakistan has forced Google and Apple to take down apps in the country created by developers based in other nations who are part of a repressed religious minority. The move is part of a crackdown led by the country’s telecommunications regulator targeting the Ahmadiyya Muslim community. Adherents,

India’s government has threatened to punish employees at Twitter with fines and jail terms of up to seven years for restoring hundreds of accounts it has ordered the company to block. Most accounts were critical of the country’s prime minister, Narendra Modi. On Monday, Twitter complied with the government’s order and prevented people in India

Geeky · Gepostet 2 minutes ago The biggest star known to man is 1,700 times larger than the sun! 1. If you put your finger over a star in the sky, you are preventing photons that have travelled to Earth undisturbed for millions of years from finally entering your eye. Pixelparticle / Via Getty Images

After failing to stem the hate speech and misinformation that fueled a genocide in Myanmar, Facebook now says it plans to take proactive content moderation steps following a military coup taking place in the country. In an internal message posted late on Monday and viewed by BuzzFeed News, Rafael Frankel, a director of public policy

After being dismissed for decades, microwave weapons are beginning to be viewed as a serious military threat — prompting the Defense Department to issue a request to outfit US soldiers with detectors for what it called “a growing threat on the battlefield.” The weapons, some of which cause burning sensations, have already been considered for

On Monday, Twitter temporarily blocked people in India from viewing several accounts belonging to activists, political commentators, a popular movie star, and a leading investigative journalism magazine, the Caravan, on orders from the country’s government. All accounts had one thing in common — they had been critical of India’s Hindu nationalist prime minister, Narendra Modi.

The military coup in Myanmar took an absurd turn on Monday as a video spread across social media of a woman dancing in front of armored vehicles. The aerobics video appears to have been filmed Monday morning as the coup was underway, capturing a surreal scene of a military takeover set to a lively electronic

President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed sweeping executive orders to force the federal government to plan for and respond to the urgent threat of a warming planet, laying out his historic vision for how the United States can once again become a global climate leader. The moves will stop new fossil fuel leases on public

tech Twitter did not take “Shoot” off its trending topics for at least a couple of hours — after there was public outcry and after BuzzFeed News emailed asking for comment. By Pranav Dixit Reporting From New Delhi Pranav Dixit BuzzFeed News Reporter Reporting From New Delhi Posted on January 26, 2021, at 10:41 a.m.

Vasily Maximov / Getty Images Thousands of Russians across 200 cities spanning from Moscow to Siberia braved subzero temperatures and police brutality during pro-democracy protests in the country on Saturday. The demonstrations came in response to the attempted assassination and subsequent arrest of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, which sparked ire among Russian citizens. From Vladivostok

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