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U.S. Social media companies should play bigger part in combating misinformation: researcher

Social media companies should play their due role in identifying, implementing and evaluating ways to curtail the spread of dangerous misinformation amid the COVID-19 pandemic, a senior U.S. resea

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Aaron Levie: ‘We have way too many manual processes in businesses’

Box CEO Aaron Levie has been working to change the software world for 15 years, but the pandemic has accelerated the move to cloud services much faster than anyone imagined. As he pointed out yesterda

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YouTube and Tribeca’s global online film festival starts today

Today, the online film festival We Are One is kicking off 10 days of films, talks, musical performances and VR experiences.The event is a collaboration between Tribeca Enterprises (the organization b

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Facebook takes on Twitter with Venue, a ‘second screen’ companion for live events

Facebook’s RD group, NPE Team, is launching a new app for engaging fellow fans around live events, Venue. This is the third new app to launch just this week from Facebook’s internal team f

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Going to war with Twitter, Trump threatens critical social media legal protections

Accusing Twitter of censorship for adding a contextual label to false claims he made about the 2020 election process, President Trump has again declared war on social media companies.After the White

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YouTube introduces Video Chapters to make it easier to navigate through longer videos

If you’ve ever found yourself scrubbing your way through a long YouTube video to get to the “good” part, you’ll appreciate the new feature YouTube is launching today: Video Cha

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Hulu launches a new Watch Party feature for virtual viewing parties and chat

Hulu today is introducing a new feature called “Hulu Watch Party,” its first social feature that will allow viewers to virtually watch Hulu together at the same time while in separate loca

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Trump to sign executive order on social media companies

The White House gave no further details about the order, which is due to take place on Thursday.

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Appeals court rules in favor of Google, Apple, Facebook and Twitter in anti-conservative bias suit

The same day Donald Trump took to Twitter to threaten to regulate or shut down social media sites, the U.S. appeals court in Washington D.C. dismissed a lawsuit accusing top tech companies of silencin

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Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg shares his COVID-19 strategy and tactics

This week, Verizon Communications CEO Hans Vestberg joined us for an episode of Extra Crunch Live.Vestberg is leading the company through the midst of one its biggest rollouts to date with the push in

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Daily Crunch: HBO Max launches in the US

WarnerMedia unveils its new streaming service, Donald Trump is mad at Twitter and GE Lighting has a new owner.Here’s your Daily Crunch for May 27, 2020.1. HBO Max launches today, here’s what yo

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Instagram to test new revenue streams, including Badges and IGTV ads

Instagram today is launching new tools that enable video creators to make money, including badges that viewers can purchase during Instagram Live videos and the introduction of IGTV ads. Both launches

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HBO Max launches today, here’s what you need to know

HBO Max, the HBO -plus-other-stuff streaming service from WarnerMedia, is finally here.At $14.99 per month, the service — initially available to subscribers in the United States — is more expensive th

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YouTube Kids app is now available for Apple TV

YouTube Kids, the video platform’s version of its service that lets families set age categories, viewing timers and other controls, is now available on Apple TV.Country availability is listed here, wi

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Gareth Bale questions critics of golf hobby

Real Madrid's Welsh footballer Gareth Bale plays during the UEFA Champions League match against Manchester City in Madrid, Spain, February 26, 2020. /VCG Wales and Real Madrid forward Gareth B

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YouTube says that an error caused comments critical of China’s government to auto-delete

YouTube responded to reports that it is automatically deleting comments criticizing the Chinese government, explaining that the seeming censorship is actually an error in its automated moderation sys

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NASA and SpaceX launch: Parallel lives of next Americans in space

Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley are close friends whose lives and careers have mirrored each other's for the past two decades.