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TikTok's algorithms are very good at finding videos to keep people glued to their phone screens for hours on end. What they are not so good at, a new report has found, is detecting ads that contain blatant misinformation ...
Oct 21, 2022
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A Twitter employee told the House committee investigating the riot at the U.S. Capitol that he spent a sleepless night on Jan. 5, 2021, worrying that people might die the next day during a rally that former President Donald ...
Jul 13, 2022
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YouTube will remove content alleging fraud or errors changed the outcome of the U.S. presidential election starting today, according to a statement by the company.
Dec 10, 2020
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Google's trending searches in the U.S. this year were dominated by two topics: the presidential election and the coronavirus.
Dec 9, 2020
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Twitter labeled 300,000 tweets related to the US presidential election as "potentially misleading" in the two weeks surrounding the vote, making up 0.2 percent of election-related posts, the company said Thursday.
Nov 13, 2020
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Scientists from the University of Granada have applied artificial intelligence techniques to the analysis of huge volumes of data from Twitter, during the previous U.S. election campaign to create a political forecasting ...
Nov 4, 2020
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Twitter said Friday it will take down calls for violence starting after polls close on US election day and slap warnings on premature victory claims to fight efforts to undermine the election.
Oct 10, 2020
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Google will halt election advertising after the polls officially close for the U.S. presidential election, a move designed to limit false messages about the outcome of the contest.
Sep 28, 2020
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The Justice Department is expected to bring an antitrust action against Google in coming weeks, focusing on its dominance in online search and whether it was used to stifle competition and hurt consumers, a person familiar ...
Sep 25, 2020
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Twitter said Thursday it may remove unverified postings claiming electoral victory as part of a stepped-up effort to protect democracy, less than two months ahead of the US presidential vote.
Sep 10, 2020
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