Chinese state media officially become shareholders of social platforms

  Backlink: THE BL China’s state-owned media has recently invested in two short-form video social platforms, Kuaishou and Douyin. According to Straits Metropolis Daily, data from the Tianyancha platform on October 26 showed that Kuaishou had made a strategic financing, and that the investor was Beijing Radio & Television (BRTV).       […]

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Tyranny looms as digital IDs and currencies roll out around the world

  Backlink: LIFE SITE NEWS By now, you probably know about the plans for digital IDs and digital currencies. But how far along are these plans exactly in various places around the world? What steps are being undertaken right now? Why are digital “identities” so problematic? And what are possible solutions? We will explore these […]

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TikTok Parent ByteDance Sees Losses Swell in Push for Growth

  Backlink: THE WALL STREET JOURNAL TikTok parent ByteDance Ltd. saw its operating losses more than triple last year to above $7 billion as it spent heavily to continue its torrid growth, according to a financial report shared with employees that offers a rare look inside the private company’s closely guarded finances. […]

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Elon Musk takes on former Chinese official on Twitter, defends free speech

  Backlink: THE BL A few days ago, Elon Musk, founder and CEO of Tesla, posted a poll on Twitter about the war between Russia and Ukraine. In the poll, Musk proposed ways to resolve the conflict. The tweet went viral and garnered over 2,400,ooo votes. For Hu Xijin, former editor-in-chief of the state-run Global […]

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Meta Researcher Wants to Inject intuition and Common Sense into AI

  Backlink: CURIOSMOS Earlier this year, a Google engineer made headlines around the world when he claimed that Google’s most advanced Artificial Intelligence system laMDA was conscious and aware of its existence. The story went on for weeks, the engineer was put on administrative leave and eventually fired. Before he left Google, the story developed […]

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Podcaster Metrics Are Being Inflated Through Junk Online Games

  Backlink: VISIONTIMES Author Ashley Carman summarized the scheme in a Sept. 26 Bloomberg article, “Each time a player taps on one of these fleeting in-game ads—and wins some virtual loot for doing so—a podcast episode begins downloading on their device.” “The podcast company, in turn, can claim the gamer as a new listener to its program […]

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‘Brilliant’ new documentary exposes how Big Pharma and gov’t teamed up to push the COVID vaccines

  Backlink: LIFE SITE NEWS A newly released documentary that has been praised as “brilliant” and “outstanding,” chronicles the shocking story of how COVID shots were pushed in the United Kingdom using government propaganda and misleading data from Big Pharma. […]

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Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta No Longer Among Top 10 Most-Valuable Companies

  Backlink: THE EPOCH TIMES As of 8 p.m. ET Saturday, Meta, with a market cap of $364.64 billion, has moved to the 11th position among companies with top market cap, data from companiesmarketcap.com shows. Visa Inc. stock is at the 10th position, with a market valuation of $374.38 billion.       […]

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Google to build its first cloud region in Greece

  Backlink: REUTERS Alphabet Inc’s Google will set up its first cloud region in Greece, the company said on Thursday, giving a boost to the country’s efforts to become a world cloud computing hub. The deal is estimated to contribute some 2.2 billion euros ($2.13 billion) to Greece’s economic output and create some 20,000 jobs […]

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