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When it comes to elections, Facebook moves slow, may still break things

api, Avaaz, Campaign, dark web, dublin, Election Interference, election security, encryption, Europe, european commission, european parliament, european union, Facebook, fake news, General Election, india, instagram, ireland, Israel, Nick Clegg, Political Advertising, Security, Social, social media, spain, targeted advertising, TC, United Kingdom, Vox, WhatsApp

3 May 2019

This week, Facebook invited a small group of journalists — which didn’t include TechCrunch — to look at the “war room” i...

Samantha Bee: Canadian, comedian, and defender of the free press

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28 April 2019

The only job named in and protected by the U.S. constitution is journalism. But when it’s under attack from fake news, misinformation, and the s...

Twitter to offer report option for misleading election tweets

Asia, disinformation, EC, Election Interference, election security, Europe, european commission, european union, Facebook, fake news, Google, Government, india, online disinformation, political disinformation, Social, social media, Twitter

24 April 2019

Twitter is adding a dedicated report option that enables users to tell it about misleading tweets related to voting — starting with elections ta...

Facebook has quietly removed three bogus far-right networks in Spain ahead of Sunday’s elections

Election Interference, election security, Europe, Facebook, fake news, far right, General Election, political disinformation, Security, Social, social media, spain, TC

23 April 2019

Facebook has quietly removed three far-right networks that were engaged in coordinated inauthentic behavior intended to spread politically divisive co...

Sri Lanka blocks social media sites after deadly explosions

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21 April 2019

The government of Sri Lanka has temporarily blocked access to several social media services following deadly explosions that ripped through the countr...

Fabula AI is using social spread to spot ‘fake news’

Amazon, api, Artificial Intelligence, deep learning, Emerging-Technologies, Europe, European Research Council, Facebook, fake news, Imperial College London, London, machine learning, Mark Zuckerberg, Media, MIT, Myanmar, Social, social media, social media platforms, social media regulation, social network, social networks, Startups, TC, United Kingdom

7 February 2019

UK startup Fabula AI reckons it’s devised a way for artificial intelligence to help user generated content platforms get on top of the disinform...

Facebook removes hundreds of accounts linked to fake news group in Indonesia

Asia, computing, digital media, Facebook, fake news, Indonesia, instagram, Myanmar, Philippines, photo sharing, Singapore, social media, social network, Software, Southeast Asia, sri lanka, TC, Thailand, united nations, United States, world wide web

1 February 2019

Facebook said it has removed hundreds of Facebook and Instagram counts with links to an organization that peddled fake news. The world’s fourth ...

Mark Zuckerberg is ‘proud’ of how Facebook handled its scandals this year

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29 December 2018

After the year Mark Zuckerberg’s had, you’d think he’d struggle to appear so chipper. “I’m proud of the progress we̵...

What history could tell Mark Zuckerberg

2018 Year in Review, Facebook, fake news, Mark Zuckerberg, Opinion, Russian election interference, TC

25 December 2018

Perhaps Mark Zuckerberg obsessed over the wrong bit of history. Or else didn’t study his preferred slice of classical antiquity carefully enough...

Facebook policy VP Richard Allan to face the international ‘fake news’ grilling that Zuckerberg won’t

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24 November 2018

An unprecedented international grand committee comprising 22 representatives from seven parliaments will meet in London next week to put questions to ...

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