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Paris (AFP) - Meta said on Thursday it was developing new tools to protect teenage users from "sextortion" scams on its Instagram platform, which has been accused by US politicians of damaging the mental health of youngsters. Gangs run sextortion scams by persuading people to provide explicit images of themselves and then threatening to release them to the public unless they receive money. Meta said it was testing an AI-driven "nudity protection" tool that would find and blur images containing nudity that were sent to minors on the app's messaging system. "This way, the recipient is not expose...
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Washington (AFP) - US regulators on Tuesday called on Amazon to improve its safety protocols after six people were killed in December when a tornado hit one of the company's warehouses in the state of Illinois. An investigation into the deaths found that workers did not know where to go for shelter during the storm, and that a megaphone meant to communicate with employees was "locked in a cage and not accessible," the Labor Department's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) said in a letter to the e-commerce giant. "These tragic deaths have sparked discussions nationwide on the ...
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New York (AFP) - Just over 4,000 sexual assaults that occurred during Lyft trips were reported to the US ride-hailing company from 2017-2019, the firm said in its first-ever safety report. California-based Lyft, which faces sex assault lawsuits from passengers, had pledged transparency in 2019 after rival Uber released a report on safety matters. Lyft says that while sexual violence is statistically rare, it is a serious problem. "Behind every report is a real person and real experience, and our goal is to make each Lyft ride as safe as we possibly can," Jennifer Brandenburger, Lyft's direct...
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San Francisco (AFP) - German pharmaceutical and chemical giant Bayer lost another appeal against a verdict that found its Roundup weedkiller causes cancer, the latest setback in its bid to end thousands of lawsuits over the product. An appeals court in San Francisco on Monday upheld the 2019 ruling in favor of a couple who claimed they got non-Hodgkin's lymphoma after using Roundup for years. The court also upheld a judge's decision to reduce the jury's compensation award to Alva and Alberta Pilliod from $2 billion to $86.7 million. Bayer has been plagued by problems since it bought Monsanto, ...
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Washington (AFP) - The United States' top infectious disease official said Thursday that two coronavirus vaccines being tested were "solid," and that the speed at which they were developed has not compromised safety or integrity.Anthony Fauci spoke at a rare briefing from the White House virus task force to reassure some public concerns about the two vaccines -- one from Pfizer/BioNTech and the other by Moderna -- after both companies announced successful trials."The process of the speed did not compromise at all safety nor did it compromise scientific integrity. It was a reflection of the ext...
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