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Elden Ring board game to “capture the essence” of FromSoftware RPG
An Elden Ring board game has been announced that will turn one of the best RPG games developed by FromSoftware into a tactile adventure for Tarnished seeking to go at it alone, or fight off Elden Ring bosses and enemies with up to four players.
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Meta Oversight Board finds plenty of flaws with Facebook’s content moderation
Facebook’s content moderation systems are clearly in need of repair.
On Thursday, Meta’s Oversight Board announced that it had reversed two of Facebook’s decisions to remove content from its platform. The independent group’s conclusions point to major flaws in Facebook’s content moderation protocols in two major areas: the platform’s use of automated systems to take down content and the removal of newsworthy content by human moderators.
The first case from the Oversight Board concerns a Facebook user in Colombia who had posted a cartoon image depicting police brutality from the National Police of Colombia in September 2020. Facebook removed the user’s post 16 months later when the company’s automated systems matched the cartoon image with one stored in a Media Matching Service bank.
The Oversight Board determined it was wrong for Facebook to remove the user’s post because the image depicted did not violate Facebook’s rules and should not have been added to the Media Matching Service bank.
And, according to the Oversight Board, this user wasn’t the only one affected. In total, 215 users appealed the removal of a post which included this image. Of those, 98 percent were successful in their appeal to Meta. However, the cartoon image remained in the bank and continued to lead to automated detections and subsequent post removals. Meta only removed the image from the Media Matching Service bank when the Oversight Board decided to take up this particular case.
In the second case, the Oversight Board determined Meta wrongly removed a news post about the Taliban. In January 2022, an India-based newspaper had posted a link to an article on its website about the Taliban’s announcement to re-open schools for women and girls. Meta had determined that the post was in violation of its Dangerous Individuals and Organizations policy as it construed the post as “praise” of the Taliban.
As a result, Meta removed the post and limited the Indian newspaper’s access to certain Facebook features, such as Facebook livestreaming. The newspaper attempted to appeal the decision but it was not reviewed due to a lack of Urdu-speaking reviewers at the company.
Once more, when the Oversight Board decided to take this case, Meta then reversed its decision, restored the content, and removed the Facebook Page limitations. Simply reporting on newsworthy events is not a violation of Facebook’s policies, the Oversight Board determined.
While the affected users in these specific cases may be fairly small in number or reach, the Oversight Board used the opportunity to recommend broader changes to Facebook’s content moderation systems, whether it be automated or human-reviewed.
Founded in 2018, the Oversight Board was formed to create somewhat of a Supreme Court for Meta’s content moderation decisions. The organization released the decisions on its first cases in January 2021. One of those early rulings was heavily criticized as it called for the restoration of a removed post that Muslim activist groups deemed as hate speech. But, the Oversight Board’s most notable case up to this point has easily been its decision to uphold Meta’s suspension of Donald Trump on Facebook. The former President was suspended from the platform following the violent riots at the Capitol building on Jan. 6.
The Oversight Board’s decision did force Meta to set a timeframe for Trump’s suspension, however. Shortly after this 2021 ruling from the Oversight Board, Meta announced it would consider allowing Trump back on its platforms in January 2023. That may have sounded far off into the future back in June 2021, but now that’s just a few months away. If and when Trump returns to Facebook next year, don’t be surprised to see his name on an Oversight Board case or two…or twenty.
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Rockstar Co-Founder Dan Houser Joins Advisory Board Of Blockchain Game Studio
Former Rockstar creative lead Dan Houser has joined the advisory board of blockchain games developer Revolving Games.
According to VGC, Houser participated in a $13.2 million fundraising round for the company. Afterwards, he joined Revolving Games’ advisory board. The company consists of two studios with around 100 employees in total, which are currently working on two titles. The first is an officially- licensed Battlestar Galactica MMO, while the second is a co-op adventure RPG inspired by Nintendo classics called Skybourne Legacy. The company has raised over $20 million for the development of web3 integrated games.
Dan Houser is best known for his work with Rockstar Games, which he co-founded. During his time at Rockstar, Houser co-wrote and co-led development on multiple titles, including GTAV and Red Dead Redemption 2, until his departure in February 2020. He since founded a company called Absurd Ventures in Games, though what exactly the company will do or what projects it will create is still unknown.
US Labor Board Rejects Amazon’s Challenge to Historic Unionization Vote
And meanwhile, a federal labor board “has rejected Amazon’s effort to stop thousands of workers in New York City from unionizing at one of the retailer’s largest warehouses in the United States,” reports UPI.
Specifically, America’s National Labor Relations Board (or NLRB) plans to throw out Amazon’s objections to a vote by 2,600 workers to unionize at one of the company’s warehouses, according to the Washington Post. “The company has held up the proceedings in an objection hearing that dragged on for months,” the Post adds, but the ruling “clears a path for the union to become the first certified bargaining unit within the company’s vast e-commerce empire.”
Both sides have until September 16 to file additional exceptions, the NLRB’s Kayla Blado said in an email. “While we’re still reviewing the decision, we strongly disagree with the conclusion and intend to appeal,” said Amazon’s Kelly Nantel in a statement…..
The news is a win for the organized labor movement, which has continued to work toward unionizing Amazon this summer. New organizing campaigns have sprung up in Kentucky, California and North Carolina, and Amazon workers at a warehouse near Albany, N.Y., are slated to vote on unionization in the coming months.
Amazon has accused the NLRB regional office of being biased against the company, and it’s possible the company could sue over the outcome. Its tactics could delay contract bargaining, a process that itself could take months or years to complete.
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Tesla can’t stop employees from wearing union swag, labor board rules
Union swag at Tesla is in. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) said that Tesla’s current dress code policy was unlawful. Specifically, the part where it only allowed employees to wear Tesla or other pre-approved black tee shirts. That policy meant union swag was not allowed — a hindrance to anyone trying to organize or show union solidarity.
Tesla’s policy went into effect in 2017, and employees were reportedly told they couldn’t wear shirts baring the United Auto Workers logo. Tesla attempted to justify its dress policy to the board claiming that its black shirts prevent damage to cars and it needed to maintain “visual management” of its employees. The NLRB rejected this.
“With today’s decision, the Board reaffirms that any…
Tesla Can’t Prevent Its Employees From Wearing Union Logo at Work, National Labor Board Ruled
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruled it “unlawful” for Tesla to prohibit its employees from wearing union t-shirts or buttons at work, criticizing a company policy that required factory workers to dress in plain, black t-shirts or ones that bear the Tesla logo.
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