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Social media top print as news source for Americans but TV still leads: Pew study
Social media have overtaken print newspapers as a news source for Americans, researchers said Monday, highlighting the growing importance of services such as Facebook and Twitter as well as the troubled state of legacy news organizations. The Pew Research Center report found 20 percent of ...
Australia's competition watchdog Monday recommended tougher scrutiny and a new regulatory body to check the dominance of tech giants Facebook Inc. and Alphabet Inc.'s Google in the country's online advertising and news markets. The recommendation, in a preliminary report on the U.S. firms' market power, ...
Documents show Facebook deployed user data as competitive weapon
Internal Facebook documents released by a U.K. parliamentary committee offer the clearest evidence yet that the social network has used its enormous trove of user data as a competitive weapon, often in ways designed to keep its users in the dark. Parliament's media committee accused ...
Facebook admits it was warned of suspected Russian meddling back in 2014
Facebook acknowledged on Tuesday that its engineers had flagged suspicious Russian activity as early as 2014 — long before it became public — but did not confirm evidence of a coordinated campaign. The revelation came as the British Parliament held hearings featuring lawmakers from nine ...
The easiest way to fix Facebook? Break it up
U.S. shouldn't be afraid of busting up a social-media giant that's grown too powerful.
Russia plans fines of up to 1% of revenue for tech firms that break rules: sources
Russia plans to impose stiffer fines on technology firms that fail to comply with Russian laws, sources familiar with the plans said, raising the stakes in the Kremlin's fight with global tech giants such as Facebook and Google. Over the past five years, Russia has ...
It was spring 2007 in northern Iraq when 6-year-old Saja Saleem raced home from school with the good news about her excellent grades, hoping to receive the gift her father had promised her. "All of a sudden, I found myself spinning into the air with ...
Apple CEO: Cambridge Analytica debacle proves tech industry is 'beyond' scope of self-regulation
Apple CEO Tim Cook predicts that new regulations of tech companies and social networks to protect personal data are "inevitable." In an interview with news website Axios being broadcast broadcast Sunday on HBO television, Cook said he expected the U.S. Congress would take up the ...
Facebook back in hot water over its handling of misinformation and attacks on critics
Facebook Inc. is coming under renewed fire for how it handled the spread of fake news and misinformation on its social network, including using aggressive tactics to discredit critics. In the wake of a scathing newspaper report on the company's approach to managing a deepening ...
Steps need to be taken to ensure that the operations of Internet giants such as Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon are fair and equitable for all participants in the markets.
Facebook said Monday it blocked some 30 accounts on its platform and 85 more on Instagram after police warned they may be linked to "foreign entities" trying to interfere in the U.S. midterm election. The announcement came shortly after U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies ...
U.S. Supreme Court ends fight over Obama-era net neutrality rules by not taking up repeal bid
The legal fight over a 2016 lower court ruling upholding Obama-era net neutrality regulations aimed at ensuring a free and open internet — rules that have since been repealed by President Donald Trump's administration — came to a formal end on Monday, with the ...
