August 4, 2021 Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter and YouTube have been accused of failing to remove more than 80% of anti-Semitic posts containing Holocaust denial and conspiracy theories about Jews. The research, which collected 714 posts between May more...
August 4, 2021 Subscribers of Facebook-owned WhatsApp will be able to send vanishing photos and videos on the platform from this week as they seek to boost competition with the photo messaging app Snapchat. The new feature, called more...
August 3, 2021 YouTube has sanctioned Sky News Australia by barring it from uploading new content for a week for breaching rules on spreading COVID-19 misinformation. It has imposed a "strike" as part of its three-strike policy, the more...
August 3, 2021 Twitter will work with two of the largest international news providers, Reuters and the Associated Press, to debunk disinformation on its platform. The news outlets will help Twitter provide more context and background information on more...
August 3, 2021 Instagram said on Monday it had solved a problem that led to glitches with its platform for some users. Instagram became inaccessible to nearly 6,000 users, according to the outage tracking website Downdetector.com. Downdetector monitors more...
July 29, 2021 The average data breach costs companies around $4.24 million per incident according to an IBM report titled "Cost of a Data Breach Report 2021." This was primarily because of the COVID-19 outbreak, which saw a more...
July 29, 2021 Facebook said on Wednesday that it expects revenue growth to "decrease significantly," sending Facebook's shares down 3.5% in extended trading despite strong ad sales. The tech giant said it expects Apple's recent update to its more...
July 26, 2021 United States Senators introduced the Health Misinformation Act bill on Thursday, which will hold Facebook, Twitter and other social media responsible for promoting misinformation in the health field. Should it become law, the bill will more...
July 23, 2021 In an interview with The Verge, Facebook's CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, said that the future of Facebook will involve a convergence of physical, augmented and virtual reality in a shared online space known as the Metaverse. more...
July 23, 2021 As part of its research "to understand the types of replies you find relevant," Twitter announced that some Twitter users on iOS will see up and down votes on comments. The feature uses thumbs or more...
