The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has donated billions in recent years to gender equality .
A few weeks ago, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) announced it is venturing further than ever before in its quest to establish “gender equality” by committing no less than US$2.1 billion to the endeavour more than half of which will be spent on contraceptives.
The Foundation, and Melinda Gates in particular, is well-known for its efforts towards sterilising as much of the female population as possible, particularly in Africa, India and other developing nations.
The remainder of the eye-watering sum will, according to the BMGF, be divided between accelerating “women’s inclusion in leadership roles” (however that works) and strengthening “women’s economic empowerment” by supporting “women’s empowerment collectives, strengthen[ing] the care economy, improv[ing] women’s financial inclusion, and reduc[ing] barriers to paid work” (whatever that means).
Facebook’s “fact checkers” are “no better than trolls who pan political adversaries’ books on Amazon without bothering to read them,” writes physicist Steven E. Koonin in a stinging op-ed in Monday’s Wall Street Journal. | Tech
Eight Cousins, 1875.
(Public Domain/via Wikimedia) Two children’s classics raise a proposition worth considering: Women have a decided influence over men.
Little Women is so beloved (quite deservedly) that many readers forget Louisa May Alcott’s other delightful stories for young people.
Jo’s Boys continues the treasured story of the March sisters,
Jack and Jill is sweet and tinged with sadness. But among her most interesting works is the two-book series composed of
Rose in Bloom (1876). Beginning when our protagonist is 13, these books tell the tale of Rose Campbell, orphan and heiress.
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After her father dies, Rose is sent to live with her guardian, kind Uncle Alec, in a mansion located in close proximity to her many aunts. To her horror, she is also thrust into the midst of her seven boy cousins, with all their antics and lively ways. Alcott has an amusing way with her characters, and her pen paints them remarkably well. Each a
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Wall Street Journal published an essay Wednesday warning of Facebook’s “secret rules” used to police users’ accounts and remove “offensive” material.
In the article, writer Kirsten Grind notes that social media users can wind up in “Facebook jail” for the strangest of reasons, including “sharing a link to a story in Smithsonian magazine about tribal New Guinea.”
Yet perhaps even more worrisome than Facebook suspensions and outright content removal is the tech giant’s frequent recourse to shadow banning, the diminishment of the visibility of certain posts or entire accounts without the users’ awareness.
“Facebook increasingly polices content in ways that aren’t disclosed to users, in hopes of avoiding disputes over its decisions, according to current and former employees,” Grind writes.
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CNA Staff, Mar 31, 2021 / 03:01 pm (CNA).- Religious groups that speak on controversial topics are at risk of being removed from social media platforms and need to prepare, a legal education group says.
While a “de-platforming” event can pose significant operational problems, there are also ways to organize broad-based efforts to respond when a group faces sanctions from influential internet companies such as Amazon, Facebook, YouTube, or Twitter.
“It seems likely that religious groups and individuals will face mounting threats from tech companies. Their views on marriage, sexuality, life and other moral issues are unpopular among the Silicon Valley set,” Josh Holdenreid, vice president and executive director of Napa Legal Institute, said in a March 28 opinion essay for the Wall Street Journal, “Big Tech Censors Religion, Too.”