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WhatsApp's New "Read and Delete" Feature Is Coming, And It's Actually a Big Deal for Your Privacy

WhatsApp is testing a new feature that deletes messages after they've been read, not just after a timer. Here's what you need to know. Okay, this is a good one. WhatsApp, the messaging app owned by Meta and used by over two billion people worldwide, is quietly testing a new feature that will delete your messages automatically after the other person has read them. Not after a timer. After they've actually read it. That's a meaningful difference. And if you care about your priv

Michael Routhier

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A person scrolling social media on a smartphone, representing the millions of people targeted daily by AI-generated fake small business scams using digital blackface to exploit empathy and steal money.

They Created a Fake Black Woman to Steal Your Money And AI Made It Easy

I need you to sit with what I'm about to tell you, because it is one of the ugliest things I have written about on this platform. And I have written about a lot of ugly things. This is the story of how artificial intelligence is being used to manufacture fake Black people, Black women, specifically, crying on camera, pleading for your support, telling you they are struggling, that their small business is all they have, that buying from them means everything, so that you will

Michael Routhier

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