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Facebook 'better prepared' for election meddling, Zuckerberg says
Mark Zuckerberg has outlined a series of steps the leading social network has taken to protect against misinformation and manipulation campaigns aimed at disrupting elections
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Online firms face EU fine if extremist posts stay up over an hour
Providers systematically failing to remove extremist content could face hefty fines of up to 4% of annual global turnover.
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Types of content Facebook removes
These are the types of content removed by Facebook between October 2017 and March 2018, according to the social media giant.
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Facebook says it was 'too slow' to fight hate speech in Myanmar
The acknowledgement came a day after a Reuters investigation revealed how the company has struggled to address a wave of vitriolic posts about the minority Rohingya.
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Greenpeace’s saints and sinners in the tech world
For the whole of 2017, it generated 43% of its power from wind turbines and hopes to push that up to 50%.
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Facebook fakers get better at covering tracks, security experts say
The company said on Tuesday it had removed 32 fake pages and accounts from Facebook and Instagram involved in what it called 'coordinated inauthentic behaviour.'
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Text triggers a lynching? WhatsApp struggles with incendiary messages in India
The essence of the message, written in Hindi, was that 500 people disguised as beggars were roaming the area so that they could kill people to harvest their organs.
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[ANALYSIS] How to ‘fix’ social media without censorship
The future of free speech depends on getting this debate right.
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[OPINION] In praise of a 'Face break'
Lisa Joshua Sonn says the deactivation of her Facebook account was the most powerful action she has taken in 2018.
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'When you insult the president, you insult the face of the ANC'
Lindiwe Kambule was suspended on Thursday after Luthuli House instructed the provincial party to institute disciplinary proceedings against her.
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Facebook confirms data sharing with Chinese companies
The social media company said Huawei, computer maker Lenovo Group, and smartphone makers OPPO and TCL Corp were among about 60 companies worldwide that received access to some user data.
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US teens are ditching Facebook
The Pew Research Centre has confirmed that Facebook has seen a 20% drop from teens from the ages 13 to 17.
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France's Macron vows to invest nearly R1bn in African technology
French president Emmanuel Macron made the announcement to chief executives of the world biggest technology firms at the technology for good summit in Paris.
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Cambridge Analytica and British parent shut down after Facebook scandal
Allegations of the improper use of data for 87 million Facebook users by Cambridge Analytica, which was hired by Donald Trump’s 2016 US election campaign, has hurt Facebook's shares.
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Facebook exec promises UK lawmakers overhaul for political ads
Facebook has said the personal information of about 87 million users might have been improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica, which worked on Donald Trump’s 2016 election campaign.
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Facebook fuels broad privacy debate by tracking non-users
Privacy concerns have swamped Facebook since it acknowledged last month that information about millions of users wrongly ended up in the hands of political consultancy Cambridge Analytica.
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[CARTOON] Antisocial Network
By Dr Jack & Curtis.
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Zuckerberg promises to ensure Faceebook tools used for good in future
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg opened Wednesday’s hearing by again apologising for having failed to take a broad enough view of the company’s responsibility.
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[OPINION] The business model of social media giants versus human rights
The social media 'free speech' machines can create human rights difficulties. Those newly empowered voices are not necessarily desirable voices.
