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SAN FRANCISCO (REUTERS) – Facebook Inc’s WhatsApp tightened message forwarding limits on Tuesday (April 7), restricting users to sharing forwarded content one chat at a…
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NEW YORK (NYTIMES) – There is no known cure for the new coronavirus. Scientists are scrambling to find treatments and vaccines for the virus, which…
View More Debunking the memes that promise coronavirus cures
NEW YORK (AFP) – Eight-year-old Ryan Kaji earned US$26 million (S$35 million) in 2019 on his YouTube channel, making him the highest-paid creator on the…
View More Eight-year-old is highest paid YouTuber, earned US$26 million in 2019
ECB’s Lagarde sees slowdown bottoming out Bank leaves key rates unchanged The head of the European Central Bank (ECB) said on Thursday that the economic…
View More Facebook Puts Down $130 Million As Initial Investment In Content Oversight
Turning Point: In July, the Federal Trade Commission announced that it would fine Facebook $5 billion, the largest penalty ever levied by the agency for…
View More Opinion | Our Brains Are No Match for Our Technology
SYDNEY (REUTERS) – Australia on Thursday (Dec 5) established an investigation into potential foreign political interference through social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and…
View More Australia to probe foreign interference through social media platforms
BANGALORE (REUTERS) – Facebook said on Monday (Dec 2) it has introduced an option to transfer photos and videos from the social media network directly…
View More Facebook to allow transfer of photos, videos to Google Photos
Chinese-owned app TikTok admits it briefly removed video that condemned China’s crackdown on Muslims in Xinjiang. Chinese-owned app TikTok has admitted it briefly removed a…
View More TikTok apologises for removing viral Uighur 'makeup tutorial'
WASHINGTON (WASHINGTON POST) – TikTok on Wednesday (Nov 27) acknowledged it had erred in penalising a 17-year-old who had posted witty but incisive political videos,…
View More TikTok admits error after penalising 17-year-old user who posted political videos
SAN FRANCISCO (REUTERS) – Facebook Inc removed 3.2 billion fake accounts between April and September this year, along with millions of posts depicting child abuse…
View More Facebook removes 3.2 billion fake accounts, millions of child abuse posts
Are you so poor that all you have is money? That was the question on my mind when I saw two pieces of tech news…
View More Opinion | Why Do We Tolerate Saudi Money in Tech?
More from our inbox: To the Editor: Noticeably absent from the Nov. 3 special section on “The Twitter Presidency” was an iota of self-reflection. Imagine…
View More Opinion | Trump’s Tweets: Should the Media Just Ignore Them? EARNINGS SUMMARY: Details of E*Trade Financial Corp. Q3 Earnings Report Below are the earnings highlights for E*Trade Financial Corp. (ETFC): -Earnings: $254 million in Q3…
View More Watch Mark Zuckerberg deliver a speech on free expression at Georgetown University
Centuries before the age of social media, in his “Politics,” Aristotle explicitly outlined the vital trait that sustains modern democratic coexistence, separates us from other…
View More Opinion | Post-Truth Politics Afflicts the Global South, Too