Wed. 08/18 – WhatsApp Shuts Down Taliban “Helpline”
Aug 18, 2021•17 min
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Episode description
A look at how all the platforms are dealing with the Taliban being a modern social media enterprise. Amazon is bigger than Walmart for the first time. Samsung stops cluttering its phones with ads. Attempting to hire the hacker who hacked you. And I get my answer to why all the platforms want to protect kids all the sudden.
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- WhatsApp shuts down Taliban helpline in Kabul (Financial Times)
- Platforms struggle with Taliban policy amid chaotic US withdrawal (The Verge)
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- Victim of Major DeFi Cyberattack Offers Its Hacker a Job (Bloomberg)
- TechScape: How the UK forced global shift in child safety policies (The Guardian)
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