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TikToks looking to give users more insight into how their personal data is being used for ad targeting in the app, with the addition of a new About this Ad info panel that outlines all of the various targeting elements that TikTok has used to display each ad to each user.

As explained by TikTok:

We're introducing a new 'About this ad' feature, so users will be able to tap on any ad in their feed and view some reasons why we're showing this particular ad to them. This is another step we're taking to bring more transparency into our advertising practices and help users understand how ads work on TikTok.

As you can see in the above example sequence, now, youll be able to see more info about the ads that youre shown in the app, by tapping on the About this Ad button in the ad info screen. There, youll also be able to switch off ad personalization based on third-party data - though whether its on or off, TikTok will still be able to use your in-app activity in its ad targeting process.

The update will move TikTok more into line with other social apps, which offer similar ad transparency features - though its also worth noting that TikTok has been working to continue utilizing personalized ad tracking, in various ways, despite regulations and restrictions around such getting tighter in certain regions.

Last month, TikTok was forced tosuspend a planned change to its privacy policyrelating to the use of user insights for targeted advertising, amid questions over whether the change is actually legal under the latest EU provisions for data protection and control.

The planned update would have seen the app do away with asking users for their consent to run personalized ads, with TikTok seeking to process such data under whats essentially a legal loophole in this respect, via the provision for legitimate interest. By implying that personalized ads fall under legitimate interest grounds, TikTok was seeking to circumvent the EU ePrivacy Directive, but authorities called for a review of the process before it could go into effect.

In other words, while on one hand TikToks looking to be more upfront about how your personal information is being used for ad targeting, on the other, its seeking to avoid restrictions on such, through questionable means.

European authorities will now need to review TikToks case before it can go ahead with the change.

In addition to the new About this Ad element, TikTok has also launched an updated ad data usage overview to help users understand how they can be targeted with ad content, while users can also now choose whether the ads they are shown are based on estimates of their interests and/or gender.

For example, users can choose to turn off the interest category "Beauty" so they will receive fewer ads that target to match this interest. Users can change their gender setting or input any gender of their choosing. These updates can be changed at any time in the app and apply only to users' ad settings, which does not affect other TikTok services.

So, again, this brings TikTok more into line with other apps, which already offer similar ad data control options, which could help to ensure more relevant ads are shown to TikTok users, while also giving users more capacity to manage how theyre targeted with such in the app.

Its a good update, though it will be equally interesting to see how TikTok works to manage its other data mitigation efforts to avoid the full impacts of Apples ATT update and other control measures.

TikTok should give users more control, but the app is also developing a reputation for questionable activity, in counter to accepted moderation and data usage parameters.

You can read more about TikToks new ad targeting transparency tools here.

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The latest victims include Latif Simsek, a journalist who was attacked by the nationalist parliamentarian Cemal Enginyurt and his bodyguard during a break in a TV100 studio debate on the evening of 6 August, after a heated exchange between them. In this case, the Istanbul prosecutors office has launched an investigation, but judicial impunity and political polarisation are fuelling concern about a new wave of violence against journalists in the run-up to the June 2023 elections.

On 4 August, interior minister Sleyman Soylu launched a verbal attack on the left-wing daily newspaper BirGn (Day), accusing it of being the PKK press mouthpiece an implicit threat because the PKK (the Kurdistan Workers Party) is banned in Turkey. He also accused it of trying to smear him by publishing a photo linking him to Yedi Iklim (Seven Climates), a publishing house alleged to have leaked public sector employee exam questions.

The newspaper had specified that the photo was taken at an interior ministry ceremony in 2017 with candidates for deputy prefect positions, and that the publishing house had used it for a campaign promoting its branch in the northwestern city of Bursa.

Ultra-nationalist party threatens TV channel

The leadership of the Nationalist Action Party (MHP) the ultra-nationalist party that is the main ally of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Justice and Development Party (AKP) threatened the HaberTrk (Turkish News) TV channel on 3 August over comments made by a studio guest. The guest, former republican parliamentarian Behran Simsek, had said the dismissed head of the Students Examination Centre (YSM) had links to the MHP and that he was unhappy with the growing influence of religious groups.

In their response, MHP president Devlet Baheli and vice-president Semih Yalin accused Turgay Ciner, the CEO of the company that owns HaberTrk, the Ciner Media Group, of imposing an editorial line that was hostile to the Presidential Alliance, and openly threatened him, saying, He will pay for this.

Those who join in the mission of accusing and slandering the Presidential Alliance constitute the cornerstones of indecency and will have to pay, Baheli said. Everything will be done so that those who dare to toy with the tranquillity and hopes of our nation will certainly regret it.

Defending HaberTrk, the TV channels news and current affairs coordinator, Krsad Oguz, said: Semih Yalins comments were broadcast live. Neither myself nor our presenter expressed any criticism of the MHP or the YSMs former president in this connection. This criticism came from one of our guests, which is normal in an open discussion.

On 3 August, a pro-Erdogan activist calling himself Dr Mustafa Ycel used his Twitter account to threaten two well-known anchors working for critical TV channels Zafer Arapkirli (KRT) and Aysenur Arslan (Halk TV) because of their support for Esin Davutoglu Senol, a specialist in infectious diseases who has been targeted by Turkish anti-vaxxers. Ycel called them enemies of Erdogan, Islam and the State. He was previously arrested for threatening Senol but was released under judicial control.

The AKP-MHP Alliances defeat in the March 2019 local elections was followed by several months of violence against republican journalists and journalists close to Iyi, a new party formed by a group that broke away from the MHP in October 2017. Three journalists were attacked in the street by ultranationalists Yavuz Selim Demirag in Ankara, Hakan Denizli in Adana and Idris zyol in Antalya for criticising the AKP-MHP Alliance.

Although not yet officially launched, the 2023 elections are expected to be very tense. The Presidential Alliance will be pitted against the National Alliance a coalition of six very different parties (CHP, Iyi, Gelecek, Deva, Saadet and Demokrat) that are calling for a return to the parliamentary system. Several polling companies say the president is running behind this opposition alliance. This is unprecedented in 20 years of rule by Erdogan.

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One year ago this August, the Taliban raised their white flag over Afghanistan's capital for the second time, pulling down the tricolor flag of the republic that had endured for the two decades between.

Their victory gave the radical religious movement supreme power over a country with a median age of 18 which means most citizens weren't alive for the Taliban's violent years in power from 1996-2001. The young people on the left of this photo above had never seen such a change of power. On the right, 62-year-old carpet seller Ahmed Shah Kashefi says he's lived through many upheavals and it's always hard.

The self-proclaimed Islamic emirate now controls government compounds, universities and other institutions surrounded by blast walls concrete structures once built to keep out the Taliban, along with bombers from other extremist groups.

The Taliban also control rural villages, like this one in Wardak Province. Its few remaining residents say the old government bulldozed mud-walled homes as part of their ongoing battle with the Taliban for control of nearby Highway One.

Their single biggest prize is Kabul, a growing city in a mountain valley, where neighborhoods climb up the slopes on all sides.

At this used furniture store, Wahid Kashafi (left) and Abdul Kahar give a snapshot of life in the capital. Few people have money to buy furniture, but many are selling as they prepare to leave the country, or to buy food.

Kabul's population is 4.5 million, about twice its population when the Taliban last ruled. In their previous reign there were almost no phones and no television, except what residents watched on smuggled DVD's. Now the city is in instant communication with the world.

Kabul's economy is less connected. Taliban leaders face global economic sanctions. The U.S. froze the assets of the central bank, and other Afghan banks were unable to do business with the world.

Credit cards ceased to function; it even became hard for Afghans abroad to send money home.

At the airport, at taxi stands, and at bread shops it's not hard to find children seeking a handout.

Shop owners we met said business was bad, though some were philosophical and said it's always like this when the government changes.

So who is included in the Taliban's Afghanistan? The free media are still allowed to function. Some, such as TOLOnews, have endured the hard times, the loss of staff, and periodic Taliban demands to leave out inconvenient facts.

The role of women and girls is ambiguous at best. Younger girls are in school while those of junior high and high school age are not.

Some women are still working, while others are not. Muzhda Noor says that one year ago she was a university dean overseeing 19 male professors. After the takeover, a new chancellor ordered new restrictions on women, and told Noor she should no longer attend faculty meetings with men. She sought a transfer but eventually was dismissed from the university.

The political opposition has no formal space of its own. Gulalai Mohammadi was a member of the Afghan parliament that the Taliban declared defunct. She says she's now at home, with no way to exercise a cause she supported in the assembly women's rights.

A former president, Hamid Karzai, remains in Kabul and is able to speak freely, as in a recent NPR interview, but has not been allowed to leave Afghanistan.

Many of the men who brought the Taliban to power have returned to their homes. They include these men in the Tangi Valley in rural Wardak Province. The fighters we met said they were pleased to live under their version of Islamic rule, but as we left the valley we also heard that residents wished their girls could return to school.

And it doesn't take long for a visitor to begin seeing the vast number of people in society who are obliged under the new rules to go unseen.

How do the Taliban mean to answer the uncertainties of their rule? Analyst Abdul Jabar Baheer was present this summer when Taliban leaders held a mass meeting, but reached no decisions on major policies or a permanent form of government. Hibatullah Akhundzada, described as the emir of Afghanistan, said he would not obey the West, but said little about what he intended to do.

We sought clarity at a famous compound in Kandahar, Afghanistan. It's the compound of Mullah Omar, who led the Taliban during their first rule. The U.S. and its Afghan allies later turned it into a base, and it's strewn with military equipment.

The compound is now home to Mullah Omar's son, Mullah Mohammad Yaqoob Mujahid, who has become defense minister in the Taliban's interim government.

Yaqoob said the Taliban take "seriously" the question of girls in school, and that he hopes for further announcements. He also said it's a "necessity" to adopt a formal constitution.

The Taliban said there will be no room in their system for democracy and they have for the moment eliminated elections, elected offices and a formal opposition.

Yet they've inherited a complex society that now faces an economic crisis. Through the media, the few remaining independent political figures, and the demands of the people, they face democratic calls to govern effectively and inclusively.

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These photos show who is (and isn't) included in the Taliban's Afghanistan - NPR

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - Diets, body images fed by social media, and food desire fed by the constant barrage of advertising - it all creates a vicious cycle for those trying to control their weight to look like what society expects.

Enter "intuitive eating" which is trying to reverse the trend.

It doesn't cost a cent, in fact, you were born with it, you just have to find it again.

"No rules, only intuition and tuning into yourself," said Natalie Colantuono, a registered dietitian at Inspird.

"We're kind of going back to our default setting, we're all born as intuitive eaters," added Haley Goodrich, a registered dietitian as well as the founder of Inspird.

They said we lose that intuition over time, whether it's lost by being told to clean a plate or eating when it's time to eat, even though we aren't really hungry.

"We've been told to suppress it so we learn over time that our bodies can't be trusted," Colantuono said.

Goodrich and Colantuono from the Monroeville-based Inspird are all about helping those with eating disorders, and everyone else for that matter, to start trusting their bodies again.

"You're making peace with food, sort of getting rid of all of the rules that you've learned over time," said Goodrich.

She also said that you're honoring hunger and tuning into what your body is telling you.

"Our bodies are so much smarter than we give them credit for," Colantuono added.

Goodrich said we're wired to eat every three-to-four hours but not on a clock and it takes some training to break out of old habits.

So, essentially, our kids have it right when they push away their food and say they're full.

Overall, it's pretty simple - it's just listening to our bodies and not peer pressure when it comes to eating.

"We all grow up in a society that focuses on weight and food and ultimately equates it to our worth," Colantuono said.

Intuitive eating is turning your back on the societal noises and listening internally.

"Trying to identify and listen to your hunger, your fullness, what satisfaction might be," said Goodrich.

Goodrich founded Inspird to help pull the desperate out of eating disorders and Colantuano is also part of the mission and said we spend a lot of time and mental energy focused on what we do and don't and how we look.

"By allowing ourselves to eat intuitively, we are able to focus on our values and things that are really important to us," Colantuono explained.

Goodrich said the cues to eating are left up to your body and too many diet programs are trying to curb hunger, and appetite, and that hunger is a signal from our body saying we need food.

"What we like to eat are individual food preferences, and our bodies have a lot of internal wisdom and we don't need those external rules," Colantuono added.

"It's sort of the anti-diet," Goodrich said.

If you can break free and embrace intuitive eating, you may or may not lose weight.

It also may happen because Goodrich said you're making peace with food - it no longer controls you. You use it for what it's for: fuel for the needs of your body. You eat what you need and you are less likely to overindulge.

John Shumway joined KDKA in October 1988 as a General Assignment Reporter. During his years at KDKA, he has anchored the morning and weekend news and is currently a featured General Assignment Reporter on the station's 4, 5 and 6 p.m. newscasts.

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'It's sort of the anti-diet:' Taking back control of your health through intuitive eating - CBS Pittsburgh

I've played there in the Championship years ago, about ten years ago, but I remember it being a special ground with a lot of history, and for them to be out the Premier League for 24 years, I'm sure it's going to be one of the toughest places to go again this season, he told whufc.com.

But this is the Premier League and that's what we're up against. I'm sure the atmosphere is going to be really, really loud and really high, but it's up to us to control that as well.

Forest, like West Ham, made a losing start to the 2022/23 campaign, going down 2-0 at Newcastle United on the opening weekend, while David Moyes side lost by the same margin to champions Manchester City at London Stadium.

Steve Cooper has made eleven new signings to strengthen his newly promoted squad, including former West Ham loanee Jesse Lingard, but Cresswell says the Londoners have to focus on their own jobs and exploiting any weaknesses in Forest, rather than worry about their opponents.

Theyve made a lot of changes to adapt to the Premier League and obviously Jesse is there and it'll be nice to see Jesse, but our main focus is to go there and get a win, he confirmed.

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