Having spent the weekend receiving treatment for Covid-19 at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, on Tuesday Trump posted on both platforms that the US doesn’t shut down for the seasonal flu, though the illness kills many people every year even with a vaccine. “Are we …
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The professional networking site has over 700 million users worldwide and has been testing its new look, complete with the Stories function, for the past few months in Brazil, the Netherlands, Australia, UAE and France. Recently, users in the US and Canada were given access to the new LinkedIn, and …
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“We are removing false claims that the wildfires in Oregon were started by certain groups,” Andy Stone, policy communications manager at Facebook, tweeted late on Saturday. Defending what is effectively an act of censorship by the social media giant, Stone noted that speculation suggesting the blazes have been ignited by …
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“I am a journalist, verified on Facebook,” Fischer wrote on Saturday evening on his Twitter account. “Today I spent the entire day covering various armed groups throughout Louisville. As I just finished a livestream, I tried to log in and it appears Facebook deleted my account.” Fischer, co-founder of News2Share, …
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CLS Strategies is one of many PR and lobbying groups that call the ‘swamp’ of Washington, DC their home. According to the company’s own website, it “helps clients win where it matters most – in the halls of government, the marketplace, and the court of public opinion.” But behind the …
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A Facebook spokesman told Reuters about the removal of the pages on Friday, saying that the company pulled the pages as part of “ongoing efforts to remove Violent Social Militias from our platform.” Patriot Prayer members have frequently brawled in the streets with left-wing ‘Antifa’ rioters since the group’s formation …
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The social media behemoth is teaming up with Reuters to flag premature claims of victory and redirect voters to “authoritative information about election results,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced in a post on Thursday outlining what are supposed to be the platform’s last election-related rule changes. The CEO added that “authoritative …
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The draft regulation, proposed by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), would mandate that platforms such as Facebook and Google give news organizations a piece of their digital marketing earnings. While supporters of the law argue the platforms unduly benefit from hosting news content, Facebook insists the ACCC “misunderstands …
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Several users of social network Facebook has complained that the system deletes posts with a photograph of Soviet soldiers hoisting the Victory Banner over the Reichstag. Users say that the network blocks the publication because of “violations of community standards in relation to dangerous people and organizations.” Developers Facebook write …
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Most of the accounts was discovered within a few minutes after registration – before that time, as other users could see them. Employees of the larger global social network Facebook in the period from October 2018 to March this year removed from more than 3 billion accounts spread disinformation and …
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