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Facebook to halt political ads a week before US election 'to avoid civil unrest'

Mark Zuckerberg warned the election "is not going to be business as usual" and said the period after the vote could be "intense".

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Indian's minister accuses Facebook of bias amid row over content

India's information technology minister accused Facebook on Tuesday of censoring content from people supportive of right wing ideology in the latest salvo at the social media giant over content r

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Chan Zuckerberg Initiative backs Indian education startup Eruditus in $113 million fundraise

Mumbai-based Eruditus, which works with top universities globally to offer more than 100 executive-level courses to students in over 80 nations, said on Monday it has raised $113 million in a new fina

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Zuckerberg admits Facebook's fault for not removing a militia post

Screenshot from Zuckerberg's Facebook page Mark Zuckerberg admitted Facebook's fault for not removing the page and event of a militia group, which encouraged armed civilians to protest before

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Human Capital: ‘People were afraid of being critical with me’

Welcome back to Human Capital, where we break down the latest in labor, and diversity and inclusion in tech. This week, we’re looking at the launch of the Diversity Riders initiative in venture

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Walmart expresses interest in TikTok, teaming up with Microsoft

There’s been a flurry of TikTok news today, and the flood doesn’t seem to be letting up.First was the announcement that Kevin Mayer, who joined the company just a bit more than three month

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Human Capital: What’s next in Uber and Lyft’s court battle and a look at board diversity in Silicon Valley

Welcome back to Human Capital, where we unpack the latest in diversity, equity and inclusion, and labor issues in the tech industry.In this week’s edition, we’re looking at the latest in U

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This subscription social network is happy to be an Albatross in a pandemic

In discussions of ethically dubious social networks Facebook is the usual reference choice. But spare a thought for subscribers of InterNations, a Munich-based social networking community for expats,

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Facebook trails expanding portability tools ahead of FTC hearing

Facebook is considering expanding the types of data its users are able to port directly to alternative platforms.In comments on portability sent to US regulators ahead of an FTC hearing on the topic

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The post-pandemic era a renaissance for egalitarian values

Medical workers carry a patient from an ambulance to George Washington University Hospital in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 27, 2020. /Xinhua Editor's note: Bradley Blankenship is a Prague-bas

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Facebook says pandemic hit efforts to tackle child abuse

The company has admitted that it failed to detect images of child nudity due to content moderators working from home.

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Kamala Harris brings a view from tech’s epicenter to the presidential race

Joe Biden’s decision to name California Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate in the quest to unseat President Trump means that the next White House could be occupied not only by a Black wo

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Facebook and TikTok, the entangled history

02:15 Mark Zuckerberg may have never thought he can one day get a chance to play a role in the escalating U.S. sanctions drama on Chinese tech companies.The billionaire was in the spot

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ByteDance, an algorithm-backed firm with globalization ambitions

VCG Photo When Zhang Yiming founded ByteDance in a four-bedroom apartment in Beijing in 2012, he might not have expected that one day, a short video sharing app his company made would catch he

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In The Spotlight: Zhang Yiming, the geek who dreams of a big world

In September 2014, 31-year-old Zhang Yiming visited Silicon Valley for the first time. At Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park, the Chinese rising star in tech, who ha

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Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg is now worth $100bn

The Facebook chief executive and co-founder joins the "Centibillionaire Club", which already includes Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates.

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Facebook extends coronavirus work from home policy until July 2021

Facebook has joined Google in saying it will allow employees to work from home until the middle of next year as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.“Based on guidance from health and governmen