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Facebook’s ‘independent oversight group’ is destined to fail
If there was any doubt about how big Facebook has gotten, CEO Mark Zuckerberg compared the struggles Facebook faces with…
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Facebook rebuttal claims ‘inaccuracies’ in scathing New York Times investigation
A highly detailed investigation by the New York Times has again raised questions about Facebook’s response to the Russian manipulation,…
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Zuckerberg rejects facetime call for answers from five parliaments
Facebook has declined once again to send its CEO to the UK parliament — this time turning down an invitation…
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Study of political junk on Facebook raises fresh questions about its metrics
A midterms election study of political disinformation being fenced by Facebook’s platform supports the company’s assertion that a clutch of…
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Twitter removes thousands of accounts that tried to dissuade Democrats from voting
Twitter has deleted thousands of automated accounts posting messages that tried to discourage and dissuade voters from casting their ballot…
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Zuckerberg gets joint summons from UK and Canadian parliaments
Two separate parliamentary committees, in the UK and Canada, have issued an unprecedented international joint summons for Facebook’s CEO Mark…
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Twitter suspends accounts linked to mail bomb suspect
At least two Twitter accounts linked to the man suspected of sending explosive devices to more than a dozen prominent…
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Xiaomi’s Mi Mix 3 event is 5G’s ‘fake news’ wake-up call
Real 5G news has multiplied exponentially over the past year as the next-generation cellular technology has raced from theoretical to…
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In its first cyberoperation against Russian trolls, U.S. takes a gentle approach
Russia has been blamed for shutting down power grids, hacking into critical systems, and more recently launching a massive misinformation…
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Facebook to remove more voting misinformation, considered ban on political advertising
The world’s largest online social network, with 1.5 billion daily users, has stopped short of banning all false or misleading…
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