Florida approves K-12 social studies textbooks after pressing publishers to tweak content

Florida approves K-12 social studies textbooks after pressing publishers to tweak content

[ad_1] “To uphold our exceptional standards, we must ensure our students and teachers have the highest quality materials available — materials that focus on historical facts and are free from inaccuracies or ideological rhetoric,” Education Commissioner Manny Diaz Jr. said in a statement Tuesday. The textbook adoption process for social studies was expected to face … Read more

Google to give $100 mn to NYT for 3 years to use its content: Report

Google to give $100 mn to NYT for 3 years to use its content: Report

[ad_1] New York: Google will give around $100 million to The New York Times over three years as part of a broad deal to use its content on some of its platforms, the media reported. According to the Wall Street Journal, the Alphabet company will use the NYT content on Google News Showcase and some … Read more

Meta purges 43 mn bad content on FB, Insta in March in India

Meta purges 43 mn bad content on FB, Insta in March in India

[ad_1] New Delhi: Meta said that it took down over 38.4 million pieces of content across 13 policies for Facebook and over 4.61 million pieces of content across 12 policies for Instagram in March in India. Between March 1-31, Facebook received 7,193 reports through the Indian grievance mechanism, and said that it provided tools for … Read more

HC asks IAF to consider publication of book written by retired airman after deleting classified content

HC asks IAF to consider publication of book written by retired airman after deleting classified content

[ad_1] (Representative image) New Delhi: The Delhi High Court asked the Indian Air Force (IAF) and the Directorate of Intelligence on Monday to consider whether a book written by a retired air force officer can be published after certain “classified” content is removed from it. Hearing the retired airman’s plea for permission to publish the … Read more

Google’s content removal policy applies universally: Top executive

Google’s content removal policy applies universally: Top executive

[ad_1] Seoul: Google’s policy to respect local laws and culture when removing harmful, illegal content from its platforms, like YouTube, applies universally to creators and uploaders across the world, including in South Korea, a senior executive of the US tech giant said on Thursday. “We comply with the law in each country in which we … Read more

Facebook, Twitter to face new EU content rules by August 25

Facebook, Twitter to face new EU content rules by August 25

[ad_1] The world’s largest social media platforms Facebook, Twitter, TikTok and others will have to crack down on illegal and harmful content or else face hefty fines under the European Union’s Digital Services Act from as early as August 25. The European Commission today will designate 19 very large online platforms (VLOPs) and search engines … Read more

YouTube announces new policies on eating disorder content

YouTube announces new policies on eating disorder content

[ad_1] San Francisco: Google-owned YouTube has announced that it will update its approach to eating disorder-related content to create space for community, recovery and resources while protecting viewers in the coming weeks. “We’ve long had policies to remove content that glorifies or promotes eating disorders. Moving forward, we’ll be updating our Community Guidelines to also … Read more

CleverTap launches OpenAI integrated content creation assistant Scribe

CleverTap launches OpenAI integrated content creation assistant Scribe

[ad_1] New Delhi: The US-based customer retention platform CleverTap on Monday launched an OpenAI integrated content creator assistant ‘Scribe’. The feature will be rolled out to customers in April. The AI content feature can generate campaign creatives, analyse emotions, and rewrite them with a specific emotion that resonates with the brands’ users, according to the … Read more

Globalised Content

Globalised Content

[ad_1] With the internet offering people the superhighway of information and knowledge, youth living in the pre-digital periphery are getting virtually cosmopolitan by watching their choice of global content, reports Babra Wani Boys Over Flowers, the Korean sensation that is basically a romantic comedy involving a poor girl and four brats In 2014, Saba’s cousin … Read more

‘Negative content’ needs to be removed from history textbooks: Maha BJP chief

‘Negative content’ needs to be removed from history textbooks: Maha BJP chief

[ad_1] Mumbai: Amid a row over the removal of certain references in NCERT’s new class 12 textbooks, BJP’s Maharashtra chief Chandrashekhar Bawankule on Wednesday said some people had deliberately written “negative content” in history textbooks and there was a need to drop it. He also said that although he was against some “negative descriptions” in … Read more