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In Brief: The Commercial Bank of Ethiopia raised ire after it published mass customers’ private photos and personal data to pressure them to return mistakenly distributed funds that was caused by a faulty ATM incident

June 18, 2024

The International digital rights group, Access Now and Ethiopia’s Centre for Advancement of Rights and Democracy slammed the bank publicly which resulted in the bank taking down names of customers – though it did claim it had recouped almost all its funds prior to that point.

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YouTube Home to Hundreds of Election Misinformation Videos

November 5, 2024

Misleading election-related ads are “running rampant” on Meta-owned Facebook, but Google-owned YouTube is also making money from misinformation. Research by Media Matters, independently confirmed by the New York Times, found 30 YouTube channels that between them had posted almost 300 videos containing misinformation which had earned some 47 million views. YouTube is monetizing them with ads and sharing revenue with the creators.  YouTube says election-denial falsehoods don’t violate its guidelines.

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