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Varadkar criticises mainstream media for ‘advertising harmful content’ online

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said that people have searched for harmful content online after it was “advertised” by mainstream media outlets.

Mr Varadkar said mainstream media outlets have responsibilities around their own content and signalling towards harmful content online.

Media outlets regularly publish garda requests which appeal to the public not to share imagery of tragic incidents.

Responding to a question on social media companies in Co Waterford, the Fine Gael leader said: “The traditional mainstream media also has responsibilities too and I think sometimes that’s forgotten.

“It particularly has a responsibility in not signalling, in not advertising in papers and in the regular broadcast media that stuff and harmful content is available…


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RackNerd Launches TikTok Channel, Delivering Video Content and Bringing Web Hosting Mainstream

Rancho Cucamonga, CA – August 6th, 2022 – RackNerd, a global Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and web hosting provider, has announced the launch of its new TikTok social media channel. Effective immediately, RackNerd has committed to delivering frequent video content on TikTok’s platform of over one billion monthly active users.

“The web hosting industry is extremely vast – there is so much to learn and it is constantly evolving. For example, there are plenty of industry-specific lingo and terms that one can typically only understand by working directly in the industry for years. We’re set out to change that by sharing our expertise of web hosting mainstream – RackNerd’s TikTok channel will feature web hosting tips, business and entrepreneurship advice, Linux…


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Fascist Fashion: How Mainstream Businesses Enable the Sale of Far-Right Merchandise

Fascist fashion items can help promote and provide funds for extremist groups. In some instances, it appears, their sale relies upon key services provided by prominent businesses that have policies against promoting racist organisations and hateful content.

An investigation by Bellingcat has found that a number of far-right and neo-Nazi online stores are openly utilising the infrastructure provided by major payment processors, commercial content management systems and web domain registrars.

Bellingcat was also able to establish that some far-right web stores appeared to be purchasing garments from wholesale manufacturers, whose charters celebrate diversity and equality, before embossing their own hateful messaging onto the clothing and selling it at a profit.

Some of the…


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