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Instagram's Threads never wanted to be a platform for hard news or politics. Now it's blocking searches about COVID-19.
Meta has temporarily blocked searches for COVID-19-related topics on Threads after rolling out a ne…
Tom Carter
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Meta is no longer requiring COVID-19 booster shots for employees returning to its US offices
Meta, which owns Facebook, began bringing employees back to US offices on March 28. Fellow tech gia…
Sarah Jackson
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Gen Z has discovered a whole new source for news
Young adults are getting their news from influencers and other alternative sources on TikTok. That …
Dan Whateley
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Facebook will require COVID-19 vaccine boosters for all in-person employees
The company also announced on Monday that it would delay the reopening of its US campuses until lat…
Erin Snodgrass
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Apple is requiring workers to get COVID-19 vaccine boosters as employers start mandating the shots amid the surge in Omicron cases
Employees will have to submit proof of COVID-19 booster shots or take rapid tests before entering a…
Huileng Tan
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Facebook sold ads that compared vaccines to the Holocaust and said 'Make Hanging Traitors Great Again'
Facebook made at least $780,000 from selling ads with violent and anti-vaccine messages that compar…
Matthew Loh
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Facebook took down COVID-19 posts after pressure from the Biden administration. 'I can't see Mark in a million years being comfortable with that,' an exec said in newly uncovered emails.
Some Facebook executives chafed at the White House's requests to remove false claims related to COV…
Gabriel Rivera
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Facebook's vague rules for removing content are keeping unproven and often unsafe COVID treatment groups active
Facebook says it's removing COVID misinformation, but dozens of private groups continue to share sp…
Ben Gilbert
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500 chatbots read the news and discussed it on social media. Guess how that went.
Scientists built a fake Twitter and filled it with 500 bots. Then they sat back and watched.
Adam Rogers
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Jen Psaki rejects Fox News reporter Peter Doocy's 'loaded and inaccurate' claim that the White House is 'spying' on Facebook profiles
"This is publicly open information, people sharing information online, just as you are all reportin…
Eliza Relman,Oma Seddiq
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Facebook scientists asked to study COVID-19 misinformation at the beginning of the pandemic, but Facebook ignored them, a report says
Facebook scientists asked for resources to study the spread of COVID-19 misinformation, two people …
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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25% of people who rely on Facebook for news say they won't get a COVID-19 shot - slightly more than Fox News viewers, a survey suggests
People who relied on Facebook for their news were slightly more likely to reject a COVID-19 vaccine…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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Meta says it busted more than 600 Facebook and Instagram accounts linked to a massive China-based COVID-19 disinformation campaign
Meta announced it removed 524 Facebook and 86 Instagram accounts, some of which were linked to a Ch…
Cheryl Teh
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Facebook, now Meta, says users in China created a fake Swiss scientist to spread conspiracies that the US was falsely blaming it for COVID-19
Facebook said a user named Wilson Edwards for 2.5 weeks spread lies that the US was urging the WHO …
Katie Canales
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Facebook removed a Russian vaccine misinformation campaign that claimed the COVID-19 shot turns people into chimpanzees
Facebook removed hundreds of social media accounts posting memes that falsely claimed the AstraZene…
Hannah Towey
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Facebook will require all US employees wear masks on its office campuses, even if they're fully vaccinated
Facebook's new mask policy for all US employees came after the CDC warned that fully vaccinated peo…
Kate Duffy
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New York real-estate giant The Durst Organization says it will fire non-union workers who fail to get a COVID-19 shot by Labor Day
The Durst Organization said the mandate for corporate staff, which has some exemptions, was driven …
Anna Cooban
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2 Democrat Senators want to make Big Tech companies liable when their algorithms promote health misinformation
The bill comes after Facebook fought with the Biden administration over whether misinformation on i…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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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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Facebook has no idea how far COVID-19 vaccine misinformation has spread.
Facebook data scientists told the New York Times that they asked the company for help to measure mi…