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Trump to target social media with executive order
The US president is on the warpath against Twitter after the platform for the first time labelled two of his tweets, on the increasingly contentious topic of mail-in voting, with fact-check notices.
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Facebook unveils scam warnings for Messenger users
The feature began rolling out to the Messenger app tailored for Android-powered smartphones in March and will head to Messenger on iPhones next week, according to Facebook.
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Australia's competition watchdog suggests a news boycott of Google, Facebook
Facebook and Google are the digital platforms currently benefitting from a significant imbalance in bargaining power.
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Facebook partners with SANBS to help increase blood donations during lockdown
People over the age of 18 will now be able to sign up as a blood donor on Facebook.
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Massive cable project set to give Africa internet boost
The cable will be one of the longest in the world, providing the continent with new high-speed links to Europe and the Middle East.
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Facebook gets rid of 'pseudoscience' ad-targeting category
Misinformation about the coronavirus pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus, from bogus cures to wide-ranging conspiracy theories, has also spread on rival social media platforms.
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Facebook rolls out Messenger Kids to 70 new countries
The app, which is aimed at children under 13, will also be adding a 'supervised friending' feature enabling parents to approve new connections, starting in the United States and gradually rolling out to other countries.
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Australia to force Google, Facebook to pay for news content
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg said a mandatory code of conduct - to be fully unveiled by July and made law soon after - will require the US-based firms to reimburse Australian media companies for using their news and other content.
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Aussie watchdog sues Facebook over Cambridge Analytica breach
The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner said it had initiated proceedings against the tech giant and that Facebook committed 'serious and/or repeated interferences with privacy'.
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Facebook removes Trump ad disguised as census message
The ads encouraged readers to 'take the official 2020 Congressional District Census,' but clicking on the messages directed users to a Trump campaign website.
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IEC's global conference focuses on potential pitfalls of social media
Experts were expected to address the influence of fake news on election integrity, amongst other things.
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Singapore tells Facebook to block state-critical site's page
In November the social network put up a correction next to one of the site's posts following a government request.
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Facebook increases parental control features in Messenger Kids app
The new features will include access for parents to see their children’s chat history and will allow them to keep a track of the accounts which are blocked or unblocked on the application, the company said.
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Facebook to boost site safety with 1,000 more UK staff
The new roles will increase the number of staff at the company's largest engineering hub outside the United States to more than 4,000.
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Facebook says technical error caused vulgar translation of Chinese leader's name
A statement about Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s visit published on Aung San Suu Kyi’s official Facebook page was littered with references to 'Mr Sh*thole' when translated to English.
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Thousands of UK political ads went missing from Facebook archive searches
Facebook’s ad library, which it launched in the UK in 2018, is a public tool for users to view political advertising on the platform.
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Web inventor Berners-Lee launches plan to stop internet abuse
Credited with laying the groundwork for the web - the universe of multimedia webpages accessible via the internet - in 1989, the computer scientist has since last year been developing the so-called Contract for the Web.
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Amnesty Int. SA report accuses Facebook, Google of pervasive surveillance
In a new report titled Surveillance Giants", the non-governmental organisation says the companies need to change their business model and stop their reliance on people's data.
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Facebook nixes billions of fake accounts
Amid growing efforts to create fraudulent accounts, Facebook said it has stepped up its defences and often removes the accounts within minutes of their being created.
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Activist Sharpton takes Facebook ad concerns to Zuckerberg's home
The meeting, which Sharpton said lasted nearly two hours at Zuckerberg’s Palo Alto house, included multiple civil rights activists and Facebook’s CEO Sheryl Sandberg.
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Russian disinformation campaign targeted Africa: Facebook
The operations hiding behind fake identities were linked to Yevgeny Prigozhin, who has been indicted in the United States in connection with an influence campaign targeting the 2016 US elections.
