0 Have your say After a brush with electoral mortality last summer, Conservative MP Philip Davies is showing no sign of holding back with his outspoken views. Rob Parsons reports. As he stood waiting to hear whether he’d been re-elected to the Shipley seat that he’d held since 2005, Philip Davies felt a genuine sense of confusion.The Conservative arrived at the General Election count in the early hours of June 9 last year to be told the signs were good, with an expected majority of 6,000 based on an estimate of ballot papers by his team.But then something odd happened. A message posted on Twitter by a well-known national journalist stated unambiguously: “Confirmed: Philip Davies has lost to Labour in Shipley”. The rest of the press pack quickly picked up on the story and soon the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 were reporting his ‘defeat’.“It was something to read, particularly as they hadn’t started counting [the votes] at this … [Read more...] about Philip Davies interview: I don’t care if morons on social media want to hate me
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Revenge Of The Faceblockers: Social Media Abstainers Aren’t Worried About Their Data
POLITICS 04/11/2018 11:12 am ET Lisa Belkin As Facebook sends its promised updates this week, telling users whether or not they were one of the 87 million whose personal data may have been scraped by Cambridge Analytica to create and position online political advertising, Jody Podolsky won’t even need to look. She is certain none of her information was sold because she’s sure there was no information of hers out there to sell. Of the two kinds of people in the world — those who embrace social media and those who shun it — she is of the group that has never really used platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat. Of the estimated 280 million Americans over the age of 13, 213 million are on Facebook, leaving the rest to call their friends one at a time when they get a new puppy, or send postcards from vacation rather than posting photos. And now, as Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg testifies before … [Read more...] about Revenge Of The Faceblockers: Social Media Abstainers Aren’t Worried About Their Data
Facebook announces commission to study social media impact on elections
Facebook on Monday rolled out another measure it hopes will help the company navigate how its site is used during political campaigns, announcing a new commission to provide independent research on the role of social media in elections. The initiative, which will be funded by several foundations across the political spectrum, will ask a group of scholars to come up with a research agenda, solicit proposals for research and select scholars who would be given funding and access to datasets from Facebook for analysis. "The goal is both to get the ideas of leading academics on how to address these issues as well as to hold us accountable for making sure we protect the integrity of these elections on Facebook," Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a blog post Monday morning. Facebook said in its release that the data shared with researchers would be privacy-protected. Zuckerberg also promised that the researchers would be free to share their work publicly, without … [Read more...] about Facebook announces commission to study social media impact on elections
Rudd urging social media firms to take more action against gang-linked content
News / UK and world by Press Association April 8, 2018, 6:47 am FacebookTwitterLinkedInWhatsAppEmail Sign up to our Daily newsletter Amber Rudd will challenge social media companies to do more to rid the web of gang-related content as she launches a Government drive to bear down on serious violence. The Home Secretary is expected to call for platforms to spell out explicitly that such material is forbidden on their sites. She will also emphasise that stop and search is a “vital” tool and announce ministers are looking at extending the powers so police can seize acid from suspects carrying it in public without good reason. Ms Rudd has denied that a rise in violent crime is linked to cuts to frontline policing on the basis of statistics. The new measures, which will be outlined on Monday, are part of a wide-ranging blueprint to tackle the “root causes” of serious violence, the Home Secretary said. Plans for the strategy were first announced … [Read more...] about Rudd urging social media firms to take more action against gang-linked content
Amber Rudd to urge social media firms to more action against gang-linked content
News / UK and world by Press Association April 8, 2018, 12:01 am FacebookTwitterLinkedInWhatsAppEmail Sign up to our Daily newsletter Amber Rudd will challenge social media companies to do more to rid the web of gang-related content as she launches a Government drive to bear down on serious violence. The Home Secretary is expected to call for platforms to spell out explicitly that such material is forbidden on their sites. She will also emphasise that stop and search is a “vital” tool and announce ministers are looking at extending the powers so police can seize acid from suspects carrying it in public without good reason. The measures, which will be outlined on Monday, are part of a wide-ranging blueprint to tackle serious violence. Plans for the strategy were first announced in October but it has been finalised against a backdrop of calls for action after a spate of fatal stabbings and shootings in London. The wave of violence has sparked fresh … [Read more...] about Amber Rudd to urge social media firms to more action against gang-linked content