'TikTok is spying on you': Trump campaign runs Facebook ads

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US President Donald Trump?s re-election campaign ran Facebook ads this weekend claiming that the Chinese-owned short video app TikTok is spying on users.

Facebook mulls ban on political ads ahead of US elections - report

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Facebook Inc is considering imposing a ban on political ads on its social network in the days leading up to the Nov. 3 elections in the United States, Bloomberg ...

Google removes ads served to users seeking voting info for 'misrepresentation'

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Google said it had removed ads for companies that charge people large fees to register to vote or harvest their data, which appeared when users searched for voter ...

How TikTok users and K-pop fans once again 'helped sabotage' Trump rally

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TikTok users and fans of Korean pop music took partial credit for inflating attendance expectations at a less-than-full arena at President Donald Trump's first political ...

Facebook says it found no foreign interference campaigns targeting US protests

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Facebook Inc said on Friday it had not seen evidence of coordinated foreign interference targeting the U. S. protests spurred by the police killing of George Floyd, ...

With fact-checks in Covid-19 world, Twitter takes on new kind of task

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Twitter has added fact-checking labels to thousands of other tweets since introducing the alerts earlier this month, mostly on posts about the coronavirus.

Facebook names first members of new board that can overrule Mark Zuckerberg

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Facebook Inc's new content oversight board will include a former prime minister, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and constitutional law experts among its first members, ...

Twitter opens up data for researchers to study Covid-19 tweets

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Twitter Inc will grant researchers and software developers access to a real-time data stream of tens of millions of daily public tweets about Covid-19.

YouTube expands fact-check feature to video searches during Covid-19 pandemic

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YouTube said it would start showing text and links from third-party fact-checkers to US viewers, part of efforts to curb misinformation on the site during the COVID-19 ...

Facebook gets rid of 'pseudoscience' ad-targeting category

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Facebook Inc has removed "pseudoscience" as an option for advertisers that want to target audiences, as it vowed to curb misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic. ...

Facebook removes anti-quarantine protest events

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Facebook Inc said it has removed events in Nebraska, New Jersey and California promoting protests against stay-at-home measures.