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Facebook panel overturns four content takedowns in first ruling

Facebook's oversight board issued first rulings overturning four out of five decisions by the social network on January 28, 2021. /CFP Facebook's quasi-independent oversight board issued its f

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UK’s competition watchdog still eyeing Facebook’s Giphy buy

The UK’s competition regulator will make a decision on whether or not Facebook’s purchase of Giphy has a ‘realistic prospect’ of substantially lessening competition by March 25

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Apple, Facebook score with pandemic-hit consumers: profits surge

Both Apple and Facebook deliver stunning gains in profits and revenues in Q4, 2020. /VCG Apple and Facebook on Wednesday delivered stunning gains in profits and revenues over the past quarter,

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Jam collaborative software launches Jam Genies to give small startups access to experts

As the world moves towards remote work, the collaborative tools market continues to expand. Jam, a platform for editing and improving your company’s website, is adding to the trend by introducin

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Facebook’s secret settlement on Cambridge Analytica gags UK data watchdog

Remember the app audit Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg promised to carry out a little under three years ago at the height of the Cambridge Analytica scandal? Actually the tech giant is very keen that

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Facebook’s Oversight Board will review the decision to suspend Trump

Facebook announced Thursday that its newly established external policy review group will take on one of the company’s most consequential acts: The decision to suspend former President Trump.On J

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E2E encrypted email providers also see sign-ups surge as chat app users flock to Signal and Telegram in search of privacy

Privacy concerns that have been driving app users to alternative chat apps like Signal and Telegram in recent weeks, since Facebook-owned WhatsApp announced a TCs change, appear to also be generating

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Facebook’s EU-US data transfers face their final countdown

Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) has agreed to swiftly finalize a long-standing complaint against Facebook’s international data transfers which could force the tech giant to susp

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The U.S. isn't doing enough to track coronavirus variants: NBC News

A traveler at Los Angeles International Airport receiving novel coronavirus test, Los Angeles, California, the U.S., December 22, 2020. /CFP Increasing U.S. cases of the coronavirus variant fi

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The U.S. mainstream media sold to the biggest lie

Editor's note: Daryl Guppy is an international financial technical analysis expert. He has provided weekly Shanghai Index analysis for Chinese mainland media for more than a decade. Guppy appears

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Facebook hires a VP of civil rights

Facebook has hired Roy Austin to become its first-ever VP of Civil Rights and Deputy General Counsel to create a new civil rights organization within the company, Facebook announced today. Austin is s

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Inadequate federal privacy regulations leave US startups lagging behind Europe

“A new law to follow” seems unlikely to have featured on many business wishlists this holiday season, particularly if that law concerned data privacy. Digital privacy management is an area that takes

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WhatsApp is updating its privacy rules - here's what you need to know

Users need to sign the agreement to keep using WhatsApp, but Facebook says it won't delete their accounts if they don't.

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The deplatforming of a president

After years of placid admonishments, the tech world came out in force against President Trump this past week following the violent assault of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington D.C. on Wednesday.

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Twitter permanently bans President Trump

President Trump was permanently suspended from Twitter Friday. In the announcement, the company cited “the risk of further incitement of violence” and the president’s past transgres

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Daily Crunch: Facebook bans Trump for two weeks

Online platforms take action against President Trump, Lenovo tries out a swiveling screen and Roblox raises $250 million. This is your Daily Crunch for January 7, 2021.The big story: Facebook bans Tr

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Twitch disables Trump’s channel over ‘incendiary rhetoric’

Following a slate of temporary and permanent bans from a number of the top online platforms, popular video streaming service Twitch today confirmed that it has disabled the President of the United St