‘Ridiculous’: Vaccine myths cripple U.S. uptake as delta surges
Just as the Biden administration appeared on the verge of snuffing out COVID-19 in the U.S., a shadow pandemic of disinformation threatens to prolong the crisis.
Facebook and Instagram to invest over $1 billion in content creators
Facebook Inc. will spend $1 billion on social media creators through the end of 2022 in a fight for top talent announced in a week when TikTok became the first rival mobile app to hit 3 billion global downloads. Facebook's investments will include bonus programs ...
How Vietnam's 'influencer' army wages information warfare on Facebook
Force 47 soldiers are tasked with setting up, moderating and posting on pro-state Facebook groups, to correct "wrong views" online.
Big tech crackdown could have unintended victims
Global efforts to rein in U.S.-based social media giants such as Twitter and Facebook Inc. risk restricting democratic freedoms.
Big Tech is gearing up for a massive fight with Modi’s India
India is growing more assertive in its efforts to control online communications, challenging Twitter and Facebook’s practices and threatening to set a precedent that could extend worldwide.
Facebook's Neighborhoods feature faces crowded niche market and profiling concerns
Facebook, which is rolling out the feature in four U.S. cities, is already playing catch-up in the red-hot market for local social apps.
Before the News Feed, we navigated the internet at our leisure. But one day in 2006, it started organizing itself around us. Video produced by The New York Times; see more at nytimes.com
Japan Display, a fading iPhone LCD screen-maker, pivots to virtual reality
The Tokyo-based LCD specialist expects its favored display technology to become the standard for VR because it can achieve higher resolution than OLED.
Google and Facebook pledged millions for local news. Was it enough?
Critics say the funding does not nearly compensate for the tens of billions of dollars publishers lost as the tech companies gobbled up the digital advertising market.
Facebook, YouTube erred in censoring COVID-19 ‘misinformation’
Social media fact-checkers don’t have any special knowledge or ability to sort fact from misinformation. What they have is extraordinary power to shape what people believe.
Big Tech watches tide turning on taxes after its years of plenty
In the current system, the likes of Facebook, Amazon.com and Google have paid effective tax rates which appeared on a long, steady march toward zero.
