Meta’s oversight board has criticised the company for its failure to remove a graphic video which showed two men in Nigeria who appeared to have been attacked for being gay. The social media company, which owns Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Threads, received findings from its own oversight board expressing “serious concerns” of “systemic failings” on […]

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The US military has amended the records of more than 800 veterans fired under “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” to make their discharge “honourable”. Secretary of defense Lloyd Austin revealed on Tuesday (15 October) that the discharge status of 851 former members of the armed forces had been changed, removing the stigma of a dishonourable discharge. […]

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