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Facebook is wrongly blocking news articles about the coronavirus pandemic
On Tuesday, multiple Facebook users reported on Twitter that they found themselves unable to post a…
Rob Price
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Facebook releases new map, dashboard to help healthcare professionals fight Covid-19
San Francisco, June 8 (IANS) Facebook has released new visualisations and datasets publicly along w…
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Facebook says it will spend $100 million to help local news outlets survive the economic impact of coronavirus
There has long been tension between publishers and Facebook - along with Google, the platform is re…
Aaron Holmes
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Facebook is launching a new 'coronavirus information center' that will appear at the top of people's News Feeds
Featured Digital Health Articles: - Telehealth Industry: Benefits, Services & Examples - Valu…
Aaron Holmes
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A coronavirus fake news 'infodemic' is spreading online faster than tech companies' ability to quash it
Tech companies this week have attempted to intervene, with varying levels of success. Google announ…
Aaron Holmes
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Facebook launches crowdfunding platform to help people raise funds to fight coronavirus pandemic
Facebook launched ‘Facebook Fundraisers’, a platform through which people can raise funds for chari…
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Facebook asks for users' data to generate COVID-19 'heat maps'
Some people will see a link at the top of News Feed to an optional, off-Facebook survey to help …
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Twitter's ex-CEO stepped up the Silicon Valley beef and attacked Facebook for being a hotbed of anti-vaxxer Bill Gates conspiracy theories
Dick Costolo, who was Twitter CEO from 2010 to 2015, pointed to a recent poll which found 50% of Fo…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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Facebook was wrongly blocking news articles about the coronavirus pandemic for a full day - here's why it took so long to fix such a major issue
The company has struggled to keep up with increased usage due to the coronavirus pandemic keeping m…
Ben Gilbert
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Facebook is offering its Workplace service for free to coronavirus pandemic responders
Workplace Advanced is Facebook's product that competes with workplace chat apps like Slack and Micr…
Paayal Zaveri,Tyler Sonnemaker
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Facebook says its business could afford to get rid of news
Facebook rejected a proposed code of conduct from Australia's competition watchdog which would forc…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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An employee at the Zuckerberg Chan Initiative tested positive for coronavirus
In a statement sent late Thursday, a Facebook spokesperson told Business Insider: "Based on guidanc…
Rosie Perper,Rosie Perper
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People who believe wild coronavirus conspiracy theories rely on YouTube for most of their information on the pandemic
People who got their news from social media were also more likely to break quarantine and lockdown …
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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Trump is retweeting complaints of censorship after Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter take down hydroxychloroquine video
Trump has again accused social media companies of censorship after the removal of videos touting hy…
Paige Leskin
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Facebook working with 8 third-party fact checkers to flag misinformation around COVID-19
Internet companies like Facebook, Google and ShareChat have stepped up efforts to tackle the sprea…
PTI
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Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Reddit, and Twitter just said they're working together to fight coronavirus misinformation
On Monday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said it's easier for Facebook to "take a much harder line" …
Tyler Sonnemaker
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A fake claim that cocaine cures the coronavirus is spreading online and the French government has been forced to warn people that it won't
After a fake screenshot suggesting that cocaine "kills" coronavirus was shared thousands of times o…
Thomas Colson
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Anti-vax Facebook groups are using secret codes like 'dinner party' and 'pizza king' to dodge crackdowns on misinformation
The private Facebook groups have thousands of members and use coded language to push misinformation…
Natalie Musumeci
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More than 40% of Republicans think Bill Gates will use a COVID-19 vaccine to implant a location-tracking microchip in recipients, according to survey
Bill Gates has become the target of online conspiracy theorists and conservative pundits over his c…
Brittany Chang
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus compares Facebook to Putin and Fox News as top source of election misinformation as the company tests new COVID-19 lie-detector
Facebook is piloting an early-warning system to alert moderators to posts with potential misinforma…