Facebook expands harassment policy to protect public figures

13 Sept 12:11 Key points summarised by AI

Facebook expands its harassment policies to explicitly bar content that degrades or sexualizes public figures, including celebrities and elected officials.
New protections are extended to government dissidents, journalists, and human rights activists globally to counter online efforts to silence them.
The company will universally ban all coordinated harassment, where groups work together to bully other users, applying this rule to all platform users.
These policy changes come in response to whistleblower testimony and mounting criticism over Facebook's handling of harmful content and prioritizing profit over user safety.

Suchada: Meet the reluctant star of Thailand’s cryptic crypto drama

Yesterday 15:38 Key points summarised by AI

Thai MP Suchada Zhang Thaensap faces intense scrutiny over her husband’s substantial 1.84 billion baht wealth, with opposition lawmakers alleging connections to international scam networks.
A significant portion of her husband, Taiyang Zhang's, declared assets includes a 1.44 billion baht loan to the now-bankrupt cryptocurrency hedge fund Three Arrows Capital, which still owes him 1.34 billion baht.
Opposition MP Rangsiman Rome accused Suchada's husband of links to online scam networks and gambling sites, prompting Suchada to vehemently deny the claims, demand evidence, and file a defamation complaint.
Taiyang Zhang's background includes co-founding Ren Protocol, later sold to Alameda Research (linked to the FTX collapse), and some of his former associates have been convicted in crypto company failures.
Suchada, a former actress and first-time MP, maintains her husband's innocence, while her party leaders have distanced themselves from the allegations, deeming it a private matter.