Internet
An influential British lawmaker challenged Facebook's new effort to safeguard elections on Tuesday, warning that they will place a heavy constraint on the company's ability to combat misinformation.
Oct 22, 2019
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Google cannot escape French law obliging the US online giant to pay royalties to media outlets for displaying their articles, pictures and videos in search results, French President Emmanuel Macron said Friday.
Oct 4, 2019
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Business
Vice Media said Wednesday it was acquiring rival Refinery29, an online outlet that targets young female readers, claiming the deal creates "the world's largest digital media business."
Oct 3, 2019
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Business
Shares of Netflix are opening in negative territory for the year—the first time that's happened since 2016—as major media players step into the stream to fight for subscribers.
Sep 24, 2019
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Internet
In the face of criticism that Facebook is not doing enough to combat extremist messaging, the company likes to say that its automated systems remove the vast majority of prohibited content glorifying the Islamic State group ...
Sep 18, 2019
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Business
American tech giants Amazon, Facebook and Google joined forces on Monday to decry the French digital tax as retroactive and discriminatory.
Aug 20, 2019
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Internet
Tweets believed to be written by African Americans are much more likely to be tagged as hate speech than tweets associated with whites, according to a Cornell study analyzing five collections of Twitter data marked for abusive ...
Aug 6, 2019
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Facebook is getting a taste of the regulatory pushback it will face as it creates a new digital currency with corporate partners.
Jun 19, 2019
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Automotive
Picture the future, where driving is a thing of the past. You can hop in your car or one from a ride-share, buckle up and tell the car where you want to go. During your ride, you can check your email and look up a few things ...
Jun 7, 2019
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Academics have spent the last decade studying connectivity and social media – a trend that has more than two billion people around the world on Facebook and counting.
Oct 19, 2018
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