Enlarge MrLonelyWalker | Getty Images In today’s attention economy, platforms are megaphones and audiences are income. Shut off the megaphone and the income goes away. Bad guy go bye-bye. Throughout the last year, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and beyond have reckoned with their social responsibility not to amplify and monetize hate in what has become known […]
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Pornhub owners ‘profit from revenge porn’
Media playback is unsupported on your device The owners of porn streaming site Pornhub are profiting from “revenge porn” and failing to remove videos once reported, BBC News has been told. One woman, “Sophie”, said she felt “violated” after a video featuring her was viewed hundreds of thousands of times when it was uploaded online. […]
Facebook beats Q1 2019 profit estimates, sets aside $3 billion for privacy penalty
(Reuters) — Facebook on Wednesday blew away Wall Street profit estimates in the first quarter as it kept a lid on the costs of making its social networks safer, and set aside $ 3 billion to cover a settlement with U.S. regulators, calming investors who had worried about the outcome of a months-long federal probe. […]
GamesBeat Decides 108: Rebooting Star Wars for fun and profit
The news has calmed down after last week, and the GamesBeat staff is playing a lot of games for review. That means we have a shorter episode of the GamesBeat Decides podcast for you this week. On this half-hour of power, GamesBeat reviews editor Mike Minotti talks about playing Tales of Vesperia on Switch. PC gaming […]
Uber narrows quarterly losses, still a long way from profit
(Reuters) — Uber Technologies said on Wednesday it narrowed its quarterly losses from a year earlier, although the ride-hailing company is still a long way from proving it can be profitable as it gears up to go public in 2019. Under the leadership of Dara Khosrowshahi, who became chief executive in September, Uber has juggled […]