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Facebook won’t go deep-sixing the deepfakes

Doctored content looms over election

May 29, 2019
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Jane Lytvynenko 🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️ @JaneLytv
Today Facebook: - didn't send executives to sit before Canadian committee despite official summons (a historic first) - told the committee that they won't remove fake content during the Canadian election Latest from @TorontoStar + @BuzzFeedNews collab:
buzzfeednews.comFacebook Won’t Remove Doctored Content During The Canadian ElectionElections authorities could still investigate false or misleading content like doctored videos, but the social media giant says it’s not their role to decide where the “line” is.
9:06 PM ∙ May 28, 2019
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Roger McNamee, a former adviser to Facebook, also spoke to this committee, and advised that governments should shut down all social media until it can be reformed.


The other side of the exit sign

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“A big chunk of the Conservative Leader’s speech could have fit in one of Justin Trudeau’s familiar paeans to diversity as our strength. ... The rest was so full of unclear, empty phrases that it won’t reassure anyone about how he will apply those principles to immigration.”
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Andrew Scheer’s diversity speech is personal, but short on immigration policy details https://t.co/JAwcddVtrh @GlobePolitics https://t.co/lqOCfpL6Fk
1:21 PM ∙ May 29, 2019
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Criticizing border crossing policy shouldn’t be intertwined with racism, declared Andrew Scheer, with this shot: “And if there’s anyone who disagrees with that, there’s the door.”


Mark Carney is being wooed to replace Justin Trudeau. So goes a Toronto Star report on a conference call, in which Liberal insiders expressed a desire for the Bank of England governor to come back for them if the election results knock the PM out of leadership status.


Safe Hands hugging Bloor and Yonge

Spacing struggles to make sense of the public artwork at One Bloor East, which artist Ron Arad came to a dedication for, alongside Toronto politicians embracing the arms.


Canada’s last classical record store is priced out of Toronto. L’Atelier Grigorian, which was smacked with a rent hike from $8,000 to $30,000 a month at 70 Yorkville, will shift to selling albums online in mid-June, after clearing out stock it accrued in 39 years.


The long road from Melonville

Wild and Crazy Guys, a new book by Empire magazine editor Nick de Semlyen, promises to outline how SCTV became an incubator for movie stars—or at least one most of all:

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One of the most underrated and low-key comedy icons of the 1980s was SCTV breakout star, John Candy. In his new book, @NickdeSemlyen explores the stories behind mainstream '80s comedy films the #SNL dudes who made them
vult.reThe John Candy Joke That Still Makes Steve Martin CryAn excerpt from the new book Wild and Crazy Guys.
8:50 AM ∙ May 29, 2019
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ms.info is a new newsletter by Alheli Picazo. The journalist who tweets at @a_picazo will untangle newsy threads in her email, shipping later on Wednesday afternoons. (It’s the third of four fresh weeklies that 12:36 is boosting, after Retrontario and The Jumpstack.)


Finally, a score he didn’t expect

Alex Trebek is on the cover of People, almost three months after announcing he was diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer—and says that he’s crying “tears of joy.”

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Alex Trebek Reveals Some of His Tumors Have Shrunk by 50 Percent: ‘It’s Kind of Mind-Boggling’
peoplem.agAlex Trebek Reveals Some of His Tumors Have Shrunk by 50 Percent: ‘It’s Kind of Mind-Boggling’The Jeopardy host says he’s responding well to chemotherapy and some of his tumors have shrunk rapidly
11:42 AM ∙ May 29, 2019
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