Social Media

In an effort to stop the spread of misinformation about the COVID-19, aka coronavirus, outbreak, Facebook will start to put coronavirus information at the top of the news feed, so that it’s the first thing people see when they log on. …
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Facebook scrambled to deal with a News Feed bug on Tuesday that filtered out legitimate news articles, including some about the coronavirus, formally known as COVID-19. The flaw incorrectly identified a number of valid articles as spam,…
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As a way to help employees amid the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak, Facebook announced it would give each of its 45,000 full-time workers a $1,000 bonus.  The Information first reported that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made the…
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Twitter has removed several tweets by prominent accounts that made misleading claims about the novel coronavirus pandemic, as the company says it’s following a “zero-tolerance approach to platform manipulation and any other attempts to…
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The social network also reaffirmed that 100% of money raised on Facebook and Instagram goes directly to the organizations. CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a Facebook post Friday, “A lot of people have told us that they want to help fight…
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Twitter users in India on Friday experienced difficulties accessing the platform on desktops as an outage was reported in Japan, India, the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia. Most users reported they were not been able to access Twitter…
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China-based TikTok has been accused of censorship about as many times as Facebook has been accused of providing questionable privacy. To help build user trust, TikTok is opening a location where moderators can be observed in action. The…
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A day after the World Health Organization declared coronavirus a pandemic, Twitter is making work from home mandatory for all of its 4,900 employees across the world. “We understand this is an unprecedented step, but these are…
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San Francisco: Social media giant Facebook has started sending out invites to beta testers for its new social VR app ‘Horizons’ where users will interact in the virtual world. Facebook Horizon, is a cartoonish VR world where users will be…
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Dan Scavino, Director of Social Media at the White House, tweeted a video of Joe Biden saying ‘we can only re-elect Donald Trump.’ But the video cut off what Biden said next, which significantly changed its meaning. Twitter has for the very…
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