Hashtag Trending May 6 – Mixed reactions to Netflix’s password sharing charge – ITBusiness.ca

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While Netflix continues to look for ways to combat password sharing between households, new research from Aluma Insights found that if Netflix charged $3 per month for additional out-of-home users, 13 per cent of adult Netflix users would probably cancel their subscription.

Robert Califf, FDA commissioner cited resistance to the COVID-19 vaccination, along with the number of people taking the anti-parasite drug Ivermectin, and the increasing use of electronic cigarettes as outcomes of misinformation issues.

A tool like this is useful for researchers studying the effects of social networks on democracy and, according to the article, researchers would benefit from having similar insight on other platforms. Silverman said that TikTok, Snapchat and YouTube are some of the largest platforms in the U.S., and yet they provide almost no functional transparency into their systems. Europe has already implemented an Act which targets this issue.

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