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Facebook prematurely disabled a number of security measures designed to prevent the spread of disinformation during the US presidential election last November. It eventually led to the Capitol being stormed on January 6 this year, says a whistleblower who revealed himself in the CBS program 60 Minutes.
The whistleblower is Frances Haugen, the former product manager at the social medium. According to her, the measures would have been disabled, so that the social medium could earn more money.
Haugen said a 2018 algorithm change led to more divisions among Facebook users. Facebook no longer adjusted that algorithm because it saw that users came back more often on the social medium, so that more ads were sold.
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Last week, seven neglected lions received in Felida, a reception center in Friesland. The lions had been rescued from bad conditions in Romania. “They had a much too small enclosure, almost no water, no vegetation around them and no heating,” says Juno van Zon, who is involved in an international team that carries out several actions around the world every year to save wild animals.
The Romanian owner had a permit to keep lions on his property, but now wanted to get rid of the animals. He refused to give his last two lions as well.
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