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Facebook Knew About Abusive Content Globally but Failed to Police: Former Employees

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Facebook Knew About Abusive Content Globally but Failed to Police: Former Employees

Based on interviews with five former employees and internal company documents reviewed by Reuters, Facebook employees have warned for years that as the company races to become a global services company, it has failed to supervise abuses in countries where such remarks may cause the most harm abusive content.

For more than a decade, Facebook has been trying to become the world’s dominant online platform. It currently operates in more than 190 countries, has more than 2.8 billion monthly users, and publishes content in more than 160 languages. But its efforts to prevent its products from becoming channels for hate speech, inflammatory speech and misinformation — some of which are accused of inciting violence — have not kept up with its global expansion. Internal company documents reviewed by Reuters show that Facebook already knows that it does not employ enough employees who have both language skills and knowledge of local events needed to identify offensive posts by users in some developing countries.

The documents also show that the artificial intelligence systems Facebook uses to eradicate such content are often inadequate. And the company hasn’t made it easy for its global users to flag posts that violate the site’s rules. Employees warned in the document that these shortcomings may limit the company’s ability to fulfill its promise to block hate speech and other illegal posts from Afghanistan to Yemen. In a comment posted on Facebook’s internal message board last year about the company’s way of identifying abuse on its website, an employee reported that in certain countries at risk of real-world violence, particularly Myanmar and Ethiopia, there are ” Significant gap”.

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Tom Holland to star alongside Matt Damon in Christopher Nolan’s next, will juggle that with Spider-Man 4 in 2025

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Tom Holland to star alongside Matt Damon in Christopher Nolan’s next, will juggle that with Spider-Man 4 in 2025

Tom Holland, last seen in Apple TV show The Crowded Room last year, has signed his next with Academy Award-winning filmmaker Christopher Nolan.

Tom Holland is going to have a very busy 2025. As per The Hollywood Reporter, the actor has signed Christopher Nolan’s next, which he will juggle the filming of with that of the long-awaited Spider-Man 4. (Also Read – Tom Holland shares why he left alcohol behind: ‘Struggling without booze…’)

Tom signs Nolan’s next

This will mark the first collaboration between Tom and Christopher. While details of his next directorial aren’t known yet, it’s most likely not to have a contemporary setting. It’ll be either set in the past like, his previous film Oppenheimer (2023), or in the future like Interstellar (2014). Matt Damon, who has worked with Christopher in both, has also come on board his next.

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Christopher’s next will be co-produced by him and his wife Emma Thomas’ banner Syncopy Inc and Universal Pictures, as the two production houses will team up after the Academy Award-winning blockbuster Oppenheimer last year. Prior to Oppenheimer, Christopher collaborated mostly with Warner Bros before having a fallout post the debacle of Tenet (2020).

Warner Bros then went on to produce Greta Gerwig’s musical satire Barbie, which clashed with Oppenheimer at the box office and even outperformed it globally. Warner Bros offered Christopher a cheque for the fees he waived off for helming Tenet during the pandemic. While Christopher graciously accepted the belated remuneration, he still went on to pitch his next to Warner Bros.

Tom’s busy schedule

Tom didn’t have any release this year. His last outing was Todd Graff’s psychological thriller show The Crowded Room on Apple TV last year. He’ll juggle the filming of Christopher Nolan’s next and Spider-Man 4 in 2025. Tom has been playing the superhero ever since Russo Brothers’ 2016 blockbuster Captain America: Civil War. He’s slipped into the Peter Parker shoes post that for three standalone films and two Avengers movies. Spider-Man 4 will be helmed by Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings director Destin Daniel Cretton.

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As Tom’s girlfriend and co-star Zendaya will be busy filming Spider-Man 4 in 2025, she’ll reprise her role of Chani in Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi spectacle Dune 3 only in 2026. Meanwhile, Tom is also likely to make an appearance as Spider-Man in Russo Brothers’ Avengers: Doomsday, which will go on floors in the spring of 2025.

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