Xiaomi sells 13 million devices during festive season, AI catches 95% of hate speech posts: FB

+ worst passwords of 2020, BuzzFeed acquires HuffPost                                                                                                                                                                                                        [Xiaomi sells 13 million devices during festive season, AI catches 95% of hate speech posts: FB]( + worst passwords of 2020, BuzzFeed acquires HuffPost [NextBigWhat Team]( Nov 20 Hi there Here goes another edition of curated news. --------------------------------------------------------------- Twitter issues written apology to India over showing ‘Ladakh in China’ in map - Social media giant Twitter has apologized in writing to a key parliamentary panel for wrongly showing Ladakh in China and has promised to correct the error. - The Joint Committee of Parliament on Data Protection Bill had come down heavily on Twitter for showing Ladakh as part of China, saying it amounted to treason and had sought an explanation by the US-based parent of the social media platform in form of an affidavit. --------------------------------------------------------------- ‘BoycottZomato’ trending on social media after Swara Bhaskar’s tweet - Last month, brands like Bajaj Auto and Parle blacklisted news channels citing they do not want to be associated with platforms that are "a source of toxicity in the society". - Taking the same string of thought ahead, netizens pointed out that restaurant aggregator and food delivery app Zomato is one of the advertising partners on Republic TV news channel - And people are now uninstalling Zomato app. --------------------------------------------------------------- Google plans to roll out end-to-end encryption; will start with Android text messages’ one-on-one conversations - Google will add a major privacy feature to its Android messaging app to make texting more secure. - Google said it's completed its rollout of RCS or Rich Communication Services globally. - The search giant is testing end-to-end encryption, which safeguards messages so they can't be read by Google or other third parties as the content is sent from one phone to another. --------------------------------------------------------------- BuzzFeed acquires HuffPost from Verizon Media in an all-stock deal - HuffPost has a new owner, with its current parent company Verizon Media reaching an agreement to sell the site to BuzzFeed. - Verizon Media is also making an investment in BuzzFeed and becoming a minority shareholder in the digital media company. --------------------------------------------------------------- Facebook releases first data of hate speech and says its sophisticated AI catches 95% of hate speech posts - Facebook Inc for the first time disclosed numbers on the prevalence of hate speech on its platform, saying that out of every 10,000 content views in the third quarter, 10 to 11 included hate speech. - The world's largest social media company, under scrutiny over its policing of abuses, particularly around November's U.S. presidential election, released the estimate in its quarterly content moderation report. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Share The NextBigWhat Newsletter]( Xiaomi India registers 8.3% growth; claims to have sold over 13 million devices across India during the Diwali festive season - Mi India also saw a significant uptick in demand for ecosystem products during the festive season and shipped over four million devices in different categories like streaming devices, TVs, trimmers, smart bands, audio products, etc. - The company claimed that the newly launched Mi Watch Revolve and Mi Smart Speaker were amongst the top favorites for consumers. - Additionally, Mi Box 4k and Mi TV Stick continued to be the top-selling streaming devices across Amazon and Flipkart. --------------------------------------------------------------- NordPass report reveals the worst passwords of 2020 - As per the NordPass report, the password “123456” has been breached over 23 million times and can be cracked within a second. The second most vulnerable password is “123456789”, followed by “picture1”, and “password”, respectively. - The latest report released by password management service NordPass has revealed that “qwerty”, “iloveyou”, and “12345” are among some of the worst passwords of 2020. These passwords are the easiest to guess, which make them easy targets for hackers, and thus, the most unsafe. --------------------------------------------------------------- Facebook, Twitter, and Google are uniting to prevent the spread of vaccine misinformation online - Canada and the UK will work with Facebook, Google, and Twitter on ways to stop misinformation about the Coronavirus vaccine from spreading online. - British fact checking charity Full Fact will coordinate the effort. - Fact checking websites based in India, Argentina, and Spain will convene alongside the tech companies and federal representatives from the UK and Canada. - Facebook will fund the effort until the group launches an initial framework in January 2021, which will "set out standards of accountability" for stopping misinformation, and come up with ways to respond to "bad information" online. [nextbigwhat.com/today]( If you liked this post from [The NextBigWhat Newsletter](, why not share it? 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