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Meta said on Friday it was taking steps including removing praise and substantive support for Hamas from its platforms after the European Union reprimanded social media companies for not doing enough to tackle disinformation . Since Palestinian militant group Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, misleading claims and doctored images have spread on Facebook and other social media. In the three days after the attack, Meta said it remove d or marked as disturbing more than 795,000 pieces of content in Hebrew or Arabic. Meta is also temporarily expanding its violence and incitement policy and removing content that clearly identifies hostages taken by Hamas, even if it is being done to condemn or raise awareness of their situation. Content with blurred images of victims is still allowed but the company will prioritise the safety and privacy of kidnapping victims if unsure or unable to make a clear assessment, it said. Following the attack, Hamas has taken scor...

Instagram has announced it will put its Create button back in the centre of its main navigation bar and remove the Shop tab. Instagram head Adam Mosseri said in a Reel on Monday the move would “simplify” the app and refocus its priorities to “bring people together over what they love”. The new order of the navigation bar will be Home, Search, Create, Reels and Profile. The proposed changes will take effect in February. Watch the latest News on Channel 7 or stream for free on 7plus >> A spokesperson for Meta, which owns Instagram, did not respond to a request for comment. While the dedicated Shop tab will disappear, Mosseri said in his Reel that “you’ll still be able to shop on Feed, in Stories, in Reels and in ads”. Loading Instagram Post Instagram also stated on its help page that it would “continue to invest in shopping experiences that provide the most value for people and businesses across feed, stories, reels, ads and more”. The Shop tab, along with the Reels tab, was in...

Microsoft plans to no longer update Wordpad but instead to remove feature from future Windows updates. Users will be recommended Microsoft Word in the future for a better experience. “WordPad is no longer being updated and will be remove d in a future release of Windows,” reads a support note published by Microsoft. “We recommend Microsoft Word for rich text documents like .doc and .rtf and Windows Notepad for plain text documents like .txt.” The announcement of the removal came just after Microsoft updated Microsoft Notepad with autosave and automatic restoral of tabs. Read: Mercedes boss: EV costs will remain higher for foreseeable future WordPad was introduced in Windows 95 and was last updated with Windows 7’s Ribbon UI, but didn't receive any changes besides a slight design change in Windows 8. Source: https://thefoxposts.com/microsoft-is-going-to-remove-wordpad-from-windows-after-30-years-TheFOXposts-34571.html?utm_source=blogger_sourc...

Reddit is forcing moderators to remove NSFW labels or else they will be remove d from the position of a moderator . As a move to register their protest against Reddit’s new API pricing, many communities have used the NSFW (Not Safe For Work) designation/label. Reddit's new API pricing has caused chaos on the platform as many apps like Apollo and Rif which are fun for Reddit went for a shutdown. As per The Verge, subreddits such as r/ Military and r/PICS that have made the switch to NSFW labels have received messages from the platform to “immediately correct” their NSFW labelling. Read  Suspended Twitter account tracking Elon Musk's jet moves to Threads If the moderators fail to correct the labelling, any moderators involved in that decision will be removed. They might also be losing the ability to join future moderator teams. Following the message from Reddit, r/PICS, r/ Military had dropped the NSFW designation. Reddit is demanding immediate...