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Facebook pushes EU for dilute and fuzzy internet content rules
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is in Europe this week — attending a security conference in Germany over the weekend where…
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US sanctions two Russians for cyber-related election interference
The U.S. Treasury has imposed sanctions against two Russian nationals accused of working for a notorious disinformation unit. In a…
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Voter manipulation on social media now a global problem, report finds
New research by the Oxford Internet Institute has found that social media manipulation is getting worse, with rising numbers of…
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Just 1% of Twitter users exposed to 80% of fake news during the 2016 U.S. election
Just a small percentage of Twitter users were responsible for sharing fake news during the 2016 U.S. presidential election, a…
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Facebook is not equipped to stop the spread of authoritarianism
After the driver of a speeding bus ran over and killed two college students in Dhaka in July, student protesters…
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Facebook’s got 99 problems but Trump’s latest “bias” tweet ain’t one
By any measure Facebook hasn’t had the best of years in 2018. But while toxic problems keep piling up and,…
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‘The problem is Facebook,’ lawmakers from nine countries tell Zuckerberg’s accountability stand-in
A grand committee of international parliamentarians empty-chaired Mark Zuckerberg at a hearing earlier today, after the Facebook founder snubbed repeat invitations…
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Watch: Facebook’s Richard Allan fields questions from 9 countries at U.K. Parliament hearing
Richard Allan, Facebook’s vice president of public policy, is answering questions posed by lawmakers from Britain, Canada, France, Belgium, Brazil,…
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Facebook policy VP Richard Allan to face the international ‘fake news’ grilling that Zuckerberg won’t
An unprecedented international grand committee comprising 22 representatives from seven parliaments will meet in London next week to put questions…
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Google lays outs narrow “EU election advertiser” policy ahead of 2019 vote
Google has announced its plan for combating election interference in the European Union, ahead of elections next May when up…
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