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Access to YouTube videos with child abuse content blocked
The Family, Labor and Social Services Ministry has taken legal action against four YouTube accounts broadcasting animations with child abuse contents.
The videos posted on the platform have had many views, ranging from 300,000 to 4 million.
Online event on the world after Covid-19
The Center for European Constitutional Law (CECL) is organizing an online event on the world after Covid-19 on the occasion of the publication of a book by public and social law professor Xenophon Contiades titled "Pandemic, Biopolitics and Rights."
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Facebook Takes Axe to Pages Showing ‘Inauthentic Behaviour’
Facebook's April 2020 Coordinated Inauthentic Behaviour Report, published on May 5, said a total of eight networks of accounts, Pages and Groups were removed in the last month for violating the social media giant's policy against foreign and domestic interference.
Over 450,000 apply to online software training program
More than 450,000 people applied to the Turkish Treasury and Finance Ministry's project to train software developers, according to a statement by the Finance Minister Berat Albayrak on April 30.
"The youth has shown a great favor in our '1 Million Software Developers' project. The number of applicants reached 451,000 in a week time," he said on his Twitter account.
‘Dairy Philosopher’ to make home-made films for YouTube
In 2015, his character popularized the philosophy of "something else is possible." Now, five years on, he's planning to do the same thing in real life. Müfit Can Saçıntı, who starred in the 2015 hit "The Dairy Farm Philosopher," is set to put the maxim into practice by turning internet-based cinema into a sustainable business.
Online debate on privacy and personal data
The Ekyklos think tank is organizing an online public debate titled "Privacy and Personal Data at the Time of Coronavirus," featuring the president of the European Court of Human Rights, Linos-Alexandre Sicilianos.
The debate will be screened live on Youtube, Facebook and ekyklos.gr on Thursday from 7 p.m.
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Global Lockdown a Boon for Romania’s Adult Live Cam Providers
Their company, Studio 20 Double D, was ticking along nicely, but then COVID-19 struck and Manole was flooded with job applications and new clients.
"Applications increased by 100 per cent and the number of users doubled," Manole told BIRN.
"Ours is a business that works in a situation like this."
Romania is a global leader in adult live camming.
Facebook Extends Political Ads Rules to Balkans Before Elections
Facebook has added Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Moldova and Turkey to its updated list of countries that must adhere to its strict political advertising transparency regulations.
Delphi Economic Forum postponed because of coronavirus fears
The coronavirus outbreak, with four confirmed cases so far in Greece, has caused the postponement of the 5th Delphi Economic Forum.
The Forum, scheduled for March 5-8, will now take place at the end of May or the beginnning of June, according to the Forum organizers.
Here's the announcement in full:
Perspicacious words at Delphi
After four years of undeniable success, the Delphi Economic Forum returns with a healthy dose of extroversion and an ambitiously broad agenda.
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