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Social networking giant Meta announced Tuesday it would soon reinstate former president Donald Trump's accounts on Facebook and Instagram with "new guardrails," two years after he was banned over the 2021 US Capitol insurrection.
Jan 26, 2023
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Donald Trump's campaign is asking Facebook's parent company to reinstate his access on grounds he's a declared 2024 presidential candidate and that keeping him off the platform is interfering with the political process.
Jan 20, 2023
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Meta was reviewing a call by its oversight board to make its policies on adult nudity more inclusive, a spokesperson said Thursday, after the tech giant removed two Instagram posts showing transgender and non-binary people ...
Jan 20, 2023
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Search for the word "climate" on Twitter and the first automatic recommendation isn't "climate crisis" or "climate jobs" or even "climate change" but instead "climate scam."
Jan 19, 2023
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A conspiracy theorist urging Americans to burn voting machines, an anti-Muslim activist posting a photo with a gun, a retired general who called for a coup—Elon Musk's Twitter has reinstated thousands of once-banned accounts.
Jan 9, 2023
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The term "metaverse" is the latest buzzword to capture the tech industry's imagination—and while Facebook parent Meta is the best-known entrant into this futuristic virtual concept, it's certainly not the only one.
Jan 5, 2023
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One of Elon Musk's stated reasons for purchasing Twitter was to use the social media platform to defend the right to free speech. The ability to defend that right, or to abuse it, lies in a specific piece of legislation passed ...
Jan 5, 2023
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Business
Troops battle through burning streets. Missiles take down fighter jets. Drones pulverize tanks. The dramatic visuals have the trappings of real-life combat, but they are clips from video games fuelling misinformation.
Jan 2, 2023
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In 2017, City, University of London research by Dr. Marco Bastos was featured in exclusive story by BuzzFeed. The article, by City Journalism alumnus James Ball, lifted the lid on a network of malicious bots that sought to ...
Dec 22, 2022
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Before purchasing Twitter, Elon Musk said that a public platform for free speech is a "societal imperative for a functioning democracy." As part of this, he claimed that Twitter being "maximally trusted and broadly inclusive ...
Dec 20, 2022
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