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The Israeli government is likely to pass a bill which seeks to force Facebook and other social media platforms to do away with content the government views as incitement, Bloomberg reported on Monday. According to the article, in the backdrop of free-speech concerns, Israel's Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked said, “Israel is fighting and will continue to fight terrorism, also on the Internet.” The bill — currently pending final approval — has been sent by a parliamentary committee to all the members for a final vote, the results of which are expected later this week. Bloomberg reports that the bill has been in the making since 2016 when Shaked and Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan started work on it. Requests made by the Israeli government to remove troublesome material, went up from 95 a month in January 2017 to 2,420 in December that year when Trump announced the decision to move the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. A spokesperson for Shaked told B...

Shoppers in the US and elsewhere are struggling to access Amazon's website as one of its biggest annual sales, Prime Day, gets underway. Many reported the e-commerce platform had crashed, showing them only an error message that read: "sorry, something went wrong on our end". The issues are centred on the US but occurring on other continents too. DownDetector.com, which tracks outages, said the problems began shortly after the sale kicked off at 3pm in the US. According to reports, users have experienced errors on both the desktop site and the mobile app. Some saw an error page featuring the "dogs of Amazon" and were unable to enter the site, while others could not enter specific product pages. Some were unable to complete purchases at checkout, while others reported that the "deals" page and "Shop all deals" button had disappeared from the site. Most of the outages are centred on the US. However, it has also reported issues with Amazon's ...

Google has secured several of the UK's largest recruitment services for a local version of its jobs-hunting tool. Reed, Guardian Jobs, Haymarket and Totaljobs.com are among those providing listings, in addition to global sites such as LinkedIn and Glassdoor. The facility automatically shows the "freshest and most relevant" openings based on a user's location when they type relevant terms into Google Search. But one expert said those involved might come to regret the tie-up. For now, the US tech giant is not charging employment sites to feature their listings nor using the service to place any extra adverts beyond those that normally appear within its results. addition, applicants must still click through to the individual third-party jobs platforms to apply for a post. But one industry-watcher suggested this arrangement could change. "Google is a behemoth of search, it controls the gateway to the internet - so I...