Fears are growing over Antifa in red America as President Donald Trump and AG Bill Barr seek a scapegoat to blame for rioting across America. “The Payette County Sheriff’s Office took to Facebook Monday due to social media posts circulating...
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Video calling is all the rage these days, and due to their larger screens and more convenient form factor, the use of laptops is seeing a resurgence for these uses. Responding to this need, Facebook is improving the video calling functionality of...
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Some workers at the social media giant are publicly criticizing decisions not to remove or flag misleading posts by President Trump.
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(Paul Mirengoff) Judicial Watch has taken an in-depth look at the members of Facebook’s recently-appointed oversight board that will decide which posts get blocked. It found that the board “is stacked with leftists, including a close...
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Lost in the news of the George Floyd protests against police brutality and racism in the U.S., Facebook last week quietly noted it will now require Facebook Profile pages with large followings in the U.S. to verify their identity. The company said...
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Feeling empowered to walk away when things go bad is key to all healthy relationships.
On Monday, the CEO of the online therapy app Talkspace provided a perfect example of that very behavior by ending his company's planned partnership with...
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Facebook employees have publicly rebuked CEO Mark Zuckerberg for leaving up recent posts by President Trump that Twitter took action against, and they've now staged a walkout.
Numerous employees in recent days have voiced disagreement with...
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President Trump's attacks on social media highlight the differences between the leaders of Facebook and Twitter.
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Research from Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg's nonprofit Lean In shows that black women are among the hardest hit by the coronavirus unemployment crisis.
The survey of more than 2,600 people found that black women were twice as likely as...
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Silicon Valley leaders are voicing their solidarity for protests that have erupted across the nation in response to the death of George Floyd.
Executives from Google, Snap, Apple, Facebook, and more are speaking out against racial inequality and...
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Posted on May 31, 2020 | In case you missed it buried in the details of my rebuttal two weeks ago about Facebook labeling a short PragerU polar bear video as “false information”, in his review of the video (18 May 2020) Canadian polar bear...
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Officials in the UK Treasury are “probably” considering whether to change the Bank of England’s inflation-targeting mandate due to the massive economic shock imparted...
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Facebook employees are so upset with Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to take no action on Donald Trump’s posts, that they are participating in a “virtual walkout” in a show of protest against the company, The New York Times reports.Facebook...
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Apple, Facebook, Verizon and others are promising millions of dollars to support civil rights groups.
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Employees are reportedly staging a virtual walkout and changing their workplace profile pictures to Twitter's logo.
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What happens when media outlets are held legally liable for defamatory comments visitors post to their Facebook pages? Australians (and the rest of us) may soon find out. The Court of Appeal for New South Wales has just dismissed an attempt by...
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As investors’ appetites sour in the midst of a pandemic, a three-and-a-half-year-old Indian firm has secured $10.3 billion in a month from Facebook and four U.S.-headquartered private equity firms.
The major deals for Reliance Jio Platforms...
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Facebook made a point to take down protest pages during the shutdowns. But it doesn’t seem to want to do the same for the leftist protests occurring in 16 states.
“Events that defy government's guidance on social distancing aren't allowed on...
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While Twitter started labeling some of the president’s inflammatory posts, Facebook’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, has said his company should leave them alone.
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Former President Barack Obama called on Americans to vote out elected officials standing in the way of criminal justice reform. In a lengthy Facebook statement, the former president offered his support to protests against police brutality raging...
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