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Turkey probes Facebook’s move to collect WhatsApp data
The Turkish Competition Board has launched an investigation into WhatsApp and its owner Facebook Inc days after the messaging app asked users to...
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Turkey probes Facebook’s move to collect WhatsApp data
The Turkish Competition Board said on Monday it launched an investigation into WhatsApp and its owner Facebook Inc after the messaging app asked...
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Facebook and Twitter crackdown around Capitol siege is too little, too late
By the time social media companies took action against users and groups spurring on the siege of Capitol Hill this week, culminating in the...
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Facebook and Twitter crackdown on Trump is too little, too late
By the time social media companies took action against users and groups spurring on the siege of Capitol Hill this week, culminating in the...
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Twitter, Facebook freeze Trump accounts as tech giants respond to storming of U.S. Capitol
Twitter Inc, Facebook Inc and Snap Inc temporarily locked the accounts of U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday, as tech giants scrambled to...
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Twitter, Facebook freeze Trump accounts after storming of U.S. Capitol
Twitter Inc, Facebook Inc and Snap Inc temporarily locked the accounts of U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday, as tech giants scrambled to...
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Facebook sparks fresh privacy concerns
Facebook is being taken to court by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission after allegations of misleading and deceiving the public....
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Facebook to move UK users to California terms, avoiding EU privacy rules
Facebook Inc will shift all its users in the United Kingdom into user agreements with the corporate headquarters in California, moving them out of...
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Facebook, Twitter face British fines if fail on harmful content
Facebook, Twitter and Chinese-owned TikTok face fines of up to 10% of turnover if they fail to remove and limit the spread of illegal content such...
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EU says Facebook, Google are ‘gatekeepers’ and must obey new rules
The criteria defining online gatekeepers which control access to people, services and information are expected to hit Alphabet unit Google,...
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Facebook faces US lawsuits that could force sale of Instagram, WhatsApp
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission and nearly every U.S. state sued Facebook Inc on Wednesday, saying that it broke antitrust law and should...
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Facebook slims down plans for Libra
Facebook-backed stablecoin Libra has been rebranded “Diem” in a renewed effort to gain regulatory approval by stressing the project’s...
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Facebook’s Libra gets ready for launch in early new year
Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency is readying to launch as early as January, the Financial Times reported on Friday, citing three unidentified...
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Britain to curb Google and Facebook with tougher competition rules
Britain will impose a new competition regime next year to prevent Google and Facebook using their dominance to push out smaller firms and...
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Facebook, Google face tough new regulation in UK
Britain will impose a new competition regime next year to prevent Google and Facebook using their dominance to push out smaller firms and...
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Facebook admits high percentage of hate speech — 22.1 million in Q3
Facebook Inc for the first time on Thursday disclosed numbers on the prevalence of hate speech on its platform, saying that out of every 10,000...
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Facebook estimates hate speech seen in 1 out of 1000 views on its platform
Facebook Inc for the first time on Thursday disclosed numbers on the prevalence of hate speech on its platform, saying that out of every 10,000...
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‘More power than traditional media’: Facebook, Twitter policies attacked
Republican senators on Tuesday attacked the chief executives of Facebook and Twitter for effectively censoring President Trump and allies during...
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Fanatic Muslims burn down houses in Bangladesh over alleged Facebook post in France
The houses of several Hindu families have been vandalised and burned by some radical Islamists in Bangladesh’s Comilla district over...
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Facebook removes ‘inauthentic’ networks spanning 8 nations, including Turkey
Facebook on Friday said it has dismantled seven separate networks of fake accounts and pages on its platform that were active in Iran,...