U.S. President Donald Trump’s @realdonaldtrump Twitter account was deactivated by a Twitter Inc employee who was leaving the company on Thursday and was down for 11 minutes before it was restored, the social media company said. Trump has 41.7 million followers on Twitter and has made extensive use of it to send messages attacking his […]
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Social media giant, facebook Inc. is in talks with Hollywood studios about producing scripted, TV-quality shows, with an aim of launching original programming by late summer, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday. Facebook has indicated it’s will to commit to budgets as high as $3 million per episode, in meetings with Hollywood talent agencies, […]
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Twitter Inc said it would roll out a series of tweaks to its website and mobile applications from Thursday to further simplify the microblogging service’s interface for its users. The changes include a new circular profile picture, a speech bubble instead of an arrow to reply to tweets and refinements to the fonts. Tweets on […]
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Photo-sharing app Instagram plans to roll out a feature on Wednesday that will make it easier to label posts as paid promotions, taking what it called a step toward transparency in an area that has drawn attention from U.S. authorities. Product endorsements have become more common on Instagram, owned by Facebook Inc, as celebrities and […]
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More than 40 per cent of media advertising expenditure by companies in the country last year were unaccounted for, according to a report by a marketing and advertising publication. An estimated ₦13.4bn of media advertising that would have been paid for, according to Marketing Edge, was either misplaced (i.e. advert not carried as planned and […]
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The world’s seven major industrialised nations on Friday called on internet service providers and social media to increase their efforts to remove extremist content, four days after an Islamist suicide bomber killed 22 in Manchester. “We will combat the misuse of the Internet by terrorists. While being one of the most important technological achievements in […]
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has visited the Massachusetts high school where his wife attended. The 33-year-old billionaire and his wife, Priscilla Chan, stopped by Quincy High School on Tuesday and made a donation to the school. The amount has not been disclosed. Chan graduated from Quincy High as valedictorian in 2003. Zuckerberg says in a […]
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Facebook Inc will hire 3,000 more people over the next year to speed up the removal of videos showing murder, suicide and other violent acts, in its most dramatic move yet to combat the biggest threat to its valuable public image. The hiring spree, announced by Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday, comes after users […]
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In its ongoing bid to combat fake news, Google follows Facebook in announcing new technology to help curb spread of misinformation. According to Guardian, Google is to start displaying fact-checking labels in its search results to highlight news and information that has been vetted and show whether it is considered to be true or false, […]
Read More Facebook and Mozilla are among the companies and organizations launching a $14 million fund to promote news literacy and increase trust in journalism. The nonprofit, called the News Integrity Initiative, will be based at the City University of New York. It will run as an independent project of the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. Others […]
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Technology companies must cooperate more with law enforcement agencies and should stop offering a “secret place for terrorists to communicate” using encrypted messages, British interior minister Amber Rudd said on Sunday. Local media have reported that British-born Khalid Masood sent an encrypted message moments before killing four people last week by ploughing his car into […]
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China has blocked one of the few Western social media sites that had remained accessible to its population: Pinterest. The site has followed the example of Facebook, Twitter and many others after the photo sharing site was blocked in China, according to data from censorship monitoring organization GreatFire. GreatFire checks a range of the internet’s […]
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