Social-Media
Politicians' tweets could get slapped with warning labels
San Francisco, Jun 28 (AP/UNB) — Presidents and other world leaders and political figures who use Twitter to threaten or abuse others could find their tweets slapped with warning labels.
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Twitter will hide rule-breaking politicians' tweets
Dhaka, June 28 (UNB) - Twitter says it will hide tweets by world leaders and politicians that break its rules but have been left online "in the public interest", reports BBC,
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Facebook enlists plain English to clarify how it makes money
San Francisco, Jun 28 (AP/UNB) — Facebook is updating its terms and services guidelines to clarify how it makes money from the personal information of its users. The changes reflect its ongoing attempts to satisfy regulators in the U.S. and Europe, which have urged the company to make sure users know what they are signing up for.
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Zuckerberg says company 'evaluating' deepfake video policy
San Francisco, Jun 27 (AP/UNB) — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the company is evaluating how it should handle "deepfake" videos created with artificial intelligence and high-tech tools to yield false but realistic clips.
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Facebook 'evaluating' deepfake video policy
San Francisco, June 27 (AP/UNB) — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the company is evaluating how it should handle "deepfake" videos created with artificial intelligence and high-tech tools to yield false but realistic clips.
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Facebook to help French police identify hate speech suspects
Paris, Jun 26 (AP/UNB) — Facebook is agreeing to help French police identify hate speech suspects, in what the French government is celebrating as a global first.
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Senior Facebook executive says it would favor regulation
London, Jun 24 (AP/UNB) — A senior Facebook executive says the social media site is in favor of regulation to address some of the dark problems of the internet.
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Chan Zuckerberg Initiative awards 68-million-USD to fund human cell-mapping project
San Francisco, June 23 (Xinhua/UNB) -- A company created by Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan on Friday announced the awarding of 68 million U.S. dollars to fund a global project to map all cells in the human body.
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Facebook plans its own currency for 2 billion-plus users
San Francisco, Jun 19 (AP/UNB) — Facebook already rules daily communication for more than 2 billion people around the world. Now it wants its own currency, too.
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Facebook stops Huawei from pre-installing apps on phones
London, Jun 8 (AP/UNB) — Facebook said Friday it has stopped letting its apps come pre-installed on smartphones sold by Huawei in order to comply with U.S. restrictions, a move that deals a fresh blow to the Chinese tech giant.
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