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Factbox: How social media services handle political ads
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Online platforms including Facebook and Alphabet Inc’s Google face growing pressure to stop carrying political ads that contain false or misle...
Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple offer defence in congressional antitrust probe
WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Four top U.S. tech companies, Alphabet’s Google, Facebook, Amazon.com and Apple, responded to questions from a congressional commit...
ByteDance CEO urges TikTok diversification as U.S. pressure mounts: internal note
BEIJING (Reuters) – The founder and CEO of TikTok owner ByteDance will focus on adding users of the popular video app in countries outside of its strongest markets, according...
Exclusive: Interpol plans to condemn encryption spread, citing predators, sources say
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The international police organisation Interpol plans to condemn the spread of strong encryption in a statement Monday saying it protects child sex p...
TikTok owner ByteDance plans to launch music streaming – FT
Reuters – TikTok owner Beijing ByteDance Technology Co Ltd is in talks with big music labels – Universal Music, Sony Music and Warner Music – for global licensing...
Women leaders driven offline and out of work by social media abuse
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Pervasive abuse of women on social media is driving female leaders off the internet and, in some cases, out of a job, a conference heard...
China orders ByteDance’s Toutiao to fix search, saying national hero smeared
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s internet regulator ordered ByteDance news app Jinri Toutiao to clean up its search engine, saying the search function threw up “slande...
Where US presidential candidates stand on breaking up Big Tech
Reuters – In the run-up to the 2020 presidential election, America’s big tech companies are being challenged on many fronts from across the political spectrum, from ant...
Exclusive: US opens national security investigation into TikTok – sources
NEW YORK/BEIJING/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. government has launched a national security review of TikTok owner Beijing ByteDance Technology Co’s $1 billion acquisi...
Twitter wants your feedback on its deepfake policy plans
Reuters – Social media platform Twitter on Monday unveiled its plan for handling deepfake videos and other manipulated media, and called for feedback from the public.
Disney+ streaming exceeds expectations with 10 million sign-ups, shares surge
(Reuters) – Walt Disney Co shares soared to a record high after the entertainment firm said its new streaming service, Disney+, had been met with “extraordinary consume...
Facebook and YouTube scrub the Trump whistle-blowers name
US platform players Facebook and YouTube have declared that they have removed content that mentioned the potential name of the whistle-blower whose complaint sparked an impeachment...
British broadcasters join up for new BritBox streaming service
LONDON (Reuters) – A streaming service created by British broadcasters ITV and the BBC and went live on Thursday, entering a market dominated by Netflix and Amazon with a £5....
Google’s search for sales in cloud, hardware clip Alphabet profit
Reuters – Google parent Alphabet Inc reported quarterly results on Monday that show costs continue to rise faster than revenue as the web search leader seeks to broaden its b...