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Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft and YouTube agreed today to European review requests for the removal of hateful content posted on their platforms within 24 hours. The move is part of a recent effort to get social platforms to crack down on rising online racism following terrorism attacks in Brussels and Paris and the refugee crisis. The new rules, announced by the European Commission, also require the tech companies to identify and promote "independent counter-narratives" to hate speech and propaganda published online.
Hackers broke into Time Inc.'s Myspace social network and have made data available in an online forum before Memorial Day weekend, the company confirmed today. According to Fortune, a notorious hacker called Peace has put the data up for sale in an underground market. Peace did the same thing with LinkedIn data.
The New York Times takes a look at how ad-blocking software is becoming a threat to Internet giants like Google and Facebook. With one in five smartphone users now blocking advertising when they browse the web on their cellphones, Internet companies that rely heavily on advertising are taking note. Interestingly, ad blockers are most popular in India and Indonesia, two of the world's fastest-growing Internet markets, with almost two-thirds of users embracing them.
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