Wed. 08/18 – WhatsApp Shuts Down Taliban “Helpline”

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)
• People Now Spend More at Amazon Than at Walmart (NYTimes)
• Samsung confirms it’s removing ads from its stock apps later this year (The Verge)
• Victim of Major DeFi Cyberattack Offers Its Hacker a Job (Bloomberg)
• TechScape: How the UK forced global shift in child safety policies (The Guardian)
• Eve Online’s yearlong war ends with an epic retreat (Polygon)

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