Tech

TikTok updates community, safety guidelines

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1 year ago

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ISLAMABAD: TikTok has announced its refreshed community guidelines, to ensure safety and transparency and standards for inclusion in the TikTok community which apply to everyone and everything on the platform, according to a statement.

The short video-sharing platform has also introduced community principles.

TikTok is advancing its rules for how they treat synthetic media, which is content created or modified by AI technology.
TikTok is adding ‘tribe’ as a protected attribute in their hate speech and hateful behaviour policies.
The platform will provide more detail about their work to protect civic and election integrity, including their approach to government, politician and political party accounts.

Further, the presser stated that TikTok has also laid out the four pillars for their approach to moderation:

Remove violative content.
Age-restrict mature content, so it is only viewed by adults (18 years or older). However, the content must still abide by TikTok’s Community Guidelines.
Make content ineligible for recommendation in the For You feed that isn’t appropriate for a broad audience.
Empower TikTok’s community with information tools and resources to stay in control of their experience.

Today’s update to TikTok’s Community Guidelines also expands on their enforcement strategy by:

Sharing more information about the actions that the platform takes against accounts that violate their rules, following their update earlier this year, and clarifying that they do not allow the use of multiple accounts to intentionally bypass the platform’s rules or their enforcement.
Explaining the considerations that TikTok takes into account when they enforce their rules based on public interests and the platform’s approach to content that critiques public figures.
Including more detail about how TikTok uses informational labels, warnings, and opt-in screens.

The community principles will help users and the wider community to better understand the decisions about how the platform works to keep TikTok a safe place for users, stated the press release.

These principles are based on TikTok’s commitment to upholding human rights and are aligned with international legal frameworks.

These principles guide TikTok’s decisions about how they moderate content so that the platform can strive to be fair in its actions, protect human dignity, and strike a balance between freedom of expression and preventing harm, added the official statement.

“TikTok’s new Community Guidelines will take effect on April 21 and over the coming months, the platform will provide additional training to their moderators in order to help enforce these updated rules and standards effectively as they start to roll out.

Rules and guidelines have now been organised thematically into different topic areas such as Behavioural and Mental Health.

For each topic, TikTok provides a brief explanation of what isn’t allowed, followed by additional details such as definitions and the range of actions the platform might take if they are violated, the statement read.

Through these refreshed Community Guidelines, TikTok is offering their community more transparency around their rules and how they’re enforced.

It takes a whole village to keep people safe online, and TikTok is grateful to everyone in the platform’s community and to all of the external experts who have contributed and continue to help TikTok advance its rules and stay a step ahead of emerging threats.

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The green colour of WhatsApp ‘angers’ some users.

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13 hours ago

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After changing its display colour from blue to green, WhatsApp, which was before well-known for its blue motif, caused its users to hold divergent views.

New upgrades to the Meta app always spark a lot of discussion, regardless of how big or small the changes are.

Still, Meta-owned WhatsApp hopes that these modifications would “make it more accessible as well as easier to use” and offer a “modern, new experience” with relation to the updated display color.

A statement from the firm claimed that they had altered WhatsApp’s “looks and feels, including spacing, colors, icons, and more.”

Both iOS and Android users can now view the new WhatsApp update; the green tint on the latter has changed from the previous version.

However, iPhone users will notice that every display element, including the chat-list window and status bar, has changed with the recent design update. WhatsApp used to have a blue color scheme on iPhones.

Furthermore, the formerly blue links shared within the app are now displayed in green.

In addition, WhatsApp has made other improvements to improve its user experience outside of the color shift.

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Punjab will provide fifty thousand solar kits.

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1 month ago

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On Tuesday,Tuesday, while presiding over a review meeting on solar household solutions, the CM gave the order to begin the installation of one kilowatt solar systems right away. She also gave the order to introduce the newest solar systems.

Phase-I solar systems would be balloted for by 50,000 protected users who use 100 units each month, at a cost of Rs 12.6 billion.

Home-based solar systems will eventually be made available to other Punjabi consumers. A solar system will consist of a battery, inverter, sophisticated solar plate, and more related accessories.

Attending the meeting were Provincial Information Minister Azma Zahid Bukhari, MPA Sania Ashiq, Former Senator Pervaiz Rashid, Chief Secretary, Chairman Planning and Development, Secretaries of Energy, Finance, and Punjab Power Development Board (PPDB) Managing Director, in addition to other pertinent officers.

During his inaugural speech as Punjab’s chief minister, Maryam Nawaz outlined her five-year plan and promised to develop a strategy for customers who use fewer than 300 units of power.

According to Maryam Nawaz, the PML-N’s main goals for her term will be to provide jobs, healthcare, and education.

She said, “I am working on a plan to provide solar panels to consumers using up to 300 units of electricity or less in installments.”

Pakistan

There will be free WiFi in public parks.

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1 month ago

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The discussion on the province’s capital city’s beautification was chaired by Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur.

CM Gandapur gave the pertinent authorities instructions at the meeting to complete the arrangements and submit the free WiFi service plan for the province government’s approval.

In the following phase, he said, the service will be extended to more cities. In addition, the chief minister gave the Peshawar Development Authority instructions to create a beatification plan for the city.

The meeting voted to launch a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) service on Nasir Bagh Road in the province capital with the goal of facilitating the easy mobility of the population.

CM Gandapur pushed for the installation of underpasses rather than overhead bridges and ordered the city’s street lights to be converted to solar power.

The chief minister gave the order to begin work on the road around the BRT Corridor at University Road as well as the building of the remaining section of Warsak-Nasir Bagh Road right away.

In order to promote KP’s culture, he also oversaw the installation of fake plants on all road walks and painted headbridges and walls with designs.

The chief minister of KP gave the order to approach business organizations for assistance in this respect.