Signal ramps up hiring after WhatsApp controversy drives downloads
Messaging app Signal has seen “unprecedented” growth after a controversial change in rival WhatsApp’s privacy policy and is seeking to hire more staff as it attem...
President Trump claims Big Tech is dividing the country
President Donald Trump blamed Big Tech companies on Tuesday for dividing the Nation days Following Twitter and Facebook Prohibited him in their platforms for allegedly encouraging ...
Facebook removed a record number of disinformation campaigns in December
Facebook identified and suspended a total of 17 disinformation networks on its platforms in the last month of 2020, representing its biggest monthly takedown ever, the US social me...
Researchers suggest misinformation that led to the Capitol siege is ‘radicalization’
Digital misinformation that resulted in violent unrest at the Capitol last week has gone past false claims and has reached the stage of “radicalization,” investigators ...
Sandberg suggests Facebook has no plans to lift Trump ban
Facebook Inc’s COO Sheryl Sandberg has said the world’s largest social media business needed no plans to raise its own block on the balances of US President Trump, sinc...
Turkey probes Facebook’s move to collect WhatsApp data
The Turkish Competition Board said on Monday it had launched an investigation into WhatsApp and its owner Facebook Inc days after the messaging app asked users to agree to let Face...
How will Trump get his message out without social media?
The decision by tech oligarch’s to clamp down President Trump’s capacity to talk to followers through mainstream social media may require him to tap more conventional m...
President Trump returns to Twitter as Facebook bans him for ‘fanning the flames’
President Trump has returned to Twitter with a video acknowledging that Joe Biden would be the next US president as other platforms including Facebook blocked his accounts over con...
US suspends French tariffs over digital services tax
The United States has said it might hold off slapping tariffs on French cosmetics, handbags and other imports in retaliation for a digital services tax Washington says will damage ...
USTR slams India, Italy, Turkey on digital taxes but holds off on tariffs
Digital services taxation adopted by India, Italy and Turkey discriminate against US businesses and therefore are inconsistent with international tax rules, the US Trade Representa...
Twitter and Facebook freeze Trump accounts as platforms respond to storming of US capitol
Twitter and Facebook temporarily locked the accounts of US President Donald Trump, since technology giants scrambled to crack down on his baseless claims about the US presidential ...
Facebook will add Georgia back to political ad ban after runoff elections
Facebook Inc will ban political advertisements in Georgia today, after the ending of the state’s run-off elections, it stated in a blog post on Tuesday.
Interesting: Facebook’s advertising integrity chief leaves company
Facebook’s chief of advertising ethics, who managed the organization’s ad products around sensitive subjects like politics and coronavirus misinformation, departed this...
Google, Facebook agreed to team up against possible antitrust action, draft lawsuit says
Facebook and Alphabet Inc’s Google agreed to “cooperate and assist one another” in case of an investigation into their pact to work together in online advertising...