The Arabic language's diverse dialects pose challenges for content moderation in the region due to difficulties in understanding linguistic nuances and variations. What are the main aspects of this "information disorder"?
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Every child under the age of five in California is now qualified to receive a free book in the mail every month, thanks to the state’s expansion of Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library. https://t.co/7488ueTrm8
📢We will host a session at @rightscon in Costa Rica!
Join us, @ALQST_En, @torproject, @witnessorg & @meta to discuss:
“Are we endangering victims instead of protecting them? Tips for safe documentation in the MENA”
📅June 7, 2023 | 3:15-4:15pm CST
📍Room Guanacaste 2
We welcome the publication of BSR’s human rights due diligence report of Arabic and Hebrew content on Meta’s platforms in the Israel/Palestine context in May 2021. 🇵🇸
➡️➡️https://t.co/6zVyXRTwRV
Update: Facebook says it's "implementing fully" the @OversightBoard 's recommendation to engage an independent entity to thoroughly examine its content moderation in Arabic and Hebrew, including its use of automation and determine whether it has been applied without bias 1/
With growing demands from activists and others for greater transparency from social media platforms about how they work and take decisions, this explainer from @adammosseri of @instagram is very useful https://t.co/FSwntZuW7Q
Jordan has become 1 of the world's 1st countries to start COVID-19 vaccinations for refugees, setting an example that should be replicated globally.
Of 78 countries developing national COVID-19 vaccination strategies, 39 have committed to include refugees https://t.co/kFGoRK7NWF
Today in history: @muntazer_zaidi yelled "this is a farewell kiss from the Iraqi people, you dog," as he threw his first shoe towards Bush. "This is for the widows and orphans and all those killed in Iraq," he shouted as he threw the second. #OTD
"Let me summarize it in 4⃣ key areas.
1⃣ Prepare and be ready.
2⃣ Detect, protect and treat.
3⃣ Reduce transmission.
4⃣ Innovate and learn"-@DrTedros#COVID19#coronavirus
@BuildPalestine Hello! I hope you are well. I am a public policy manager at Facebook for the Levant. I will be attending RightsCon in Tunis and hoped to meet any of your team that might be attending. Please let me know if this is possible and thank you in advance.
The Diaspora has this need to go back home and “fix things”. But it often comes off as elitist really. We don’t “know better” than those who have to survive there on a day to day basis. Distance does it’s thing eventually. After a while, we become too removed from reality to help
@alaatartir Hello Alaa. I would like to reach out regarding some research I am conducting. Could you please provide your email address so I can share the invite? thank you.
@roubamhaissen Hello! I would like to reach out to get your input on a research project I am organizing. Could you kindly provide your contact email? Thank you very much.
نيابة عن المنطقة العربية، على هامش أعمال لجنة الأمم المتحدة للسكان والتنمية
قالت د. عبلة عماوي، أمين عام المجلس الأعلى للسكان- #الأردن، إن انجازات كبيرة حصلت في بعض الدول لكن آثار الحروب والنزاعات كان له أثر سلبي أدى إلى تراجع في مسيرة التنمية
#UNPopulation@HPC_jordan
@aalmawlawi Hello! If I would like to send you an invitation for input on a research piece where can I write to? You can DM me if you prefer. Thank you.