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This story is part of Elections 2020, CNET’s coverage of the voting in November and its aftermath. Facebook on Thursday said it’s launching its Fourth of July voter registration drive this week, the “largest voting information campaign in American history.” This follows an announcement by the company late last month that it aims to get 4 million …

Facebook on Thursday said it’ll start pushing information on face coverings and other preventive measures for COVID-19 on its platform, as well as on Instagram, which it owns. This comes as the US sees an increase in cases across the country.  All US users will see an alert at the top of their Facebook news feed, as well as a …

Facebook is shutting down experimental apps Hobbi and Lasso. Users reportedly received notifications that each app will be closing up shop as of July 10. Hobbi, developed by Facebook’s New Product Experimentation team, launched in February for iOS as a Pinterest-like app for organizing and saving photos of personal projects such as baking, ceramics, gardening, arts & crafts and more. …

Twitter removed an image from one of President Donald Trump’s tweets on Wednesday for violating copyright policy.  The now removed image, which was reported on earlier by Axios, was a photo of Trump taken by Damon Winter for The New York Times in 2015. The president had added text to the top and bottom of the image turning the photo …

Facebook is changing its stance on the boogaloo movement. The social media company said Tuesday that it’s banning a network associated with the far-right extremist movement, labeling it a “dangerous organization.” Previously, Facebook opted to leave many such groups alone. The company said it took down a core set of 220 Facebook accounts, 95 accounts on Facebook-owned Instagram, 28 pages and …

Facebook is expanding the ways that people can make money from their audience on the social network, the company said Monday in a blog post. As the coronavirus pandemic scuttles in-person events, the company has started inviting some people running Facebook pages to use tools designed to create, promote, host and monetize virtual live events.  The paid online events product will expand in the …

As part of its efforts to help people identify fake news, Facebook will be running an ad campaign with independent fact-checking charity Full Fact. Starting next month, Facebook users in the UK, Europe, Turkey, Africa and the Middle East will see ads in their feeds encouraging them to think critically about information they see. They will ask people to consider …

The global coronavirus pandemic has left governments, the tech industry and citizens reeling, not just from the devastating effects of the virus, but from the slew of misinformation that has accompanied it. How best to tackle the spread of false information is a subject of global debate, especially with regard to just how much responsibility the tech platforms hosting it …

Facebook’s New Product Experimentation team launched a new iOS app on Tuesday that aims to use crowdsourcing to predict future events. The app, called Forecast, will let people ask questions and then use in-app points to make predictions. To start, the NPE team said it’s inviting professionals in the health, research and academic communities in the US and Canada to …

Twitter veiled another tweet by President Donald Trump for breaking the site’s rules, a move that’ll likely increase tensions between the social network and the White House. Twitter said the tweet, which threatened protesters in Washington, DC, violated its policy against “the presence of a threat of harm against an identifiable group.”  Twitter placed a notice over the tweet, but you …