Facebook and Twitter took action on misleading posts by President Donald Trump about election results, highlighting both similarities and differences in their treatment of political messages. Major news organizations called the election for Democrat Joe Biden on Saturday morning, even as the president continued tweeting grievances. After polls closed on Tuesday, both companies labeled a …
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Instagram on Thursday took steps to cut down misinformation ahead of next week’s US presidential election. The Facebook-owned social media app temporarily hid the Recent tab from all hashtags. “We’re doing this to reduce the real-time spread of potentially harmful content that could pop up around the election,” it wrote in a tweet. Read more: Facebook pulled down your post. …
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This story is part of Elections 2020, CNET’s coverage of the voting in November and its aftermath. Facebook has hit its goal of registering 4 million Americans to vote, the social network announced Monday. Around 4.4 million people have registered through its apps, enabling them to vote in the 2020 presidential election, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a post. …
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Facebook has internal tools in place to help calm any unrest in the US that may break out following the election, the Wall Street Journal reported Sunday. The tools, previously used in so-called “at-risk” countries, will help slow the spread of viral content and suppress potentially inflammatory posts, the Journal reported. Facebook said it’s spent years working toward safer and …
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Facebook and its photo service Instagram are rolling out a new way for you to lodge a challenge if you think your content has been wrongly pulled down. The social networks remove millions of posts, photos and videos every quarter for violating their rules against nudity, hate speech and other types of offensive content. If you’re affected, you can ask Facebook …
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The US Department of Justice on Tuesday filed a landmark lawsuit against Google that accuses the tech giant of illegally holding monopolies in search and search advertising, the culmination of a more than yearlong investigation into alleged anticompetitive practices at the company, and the first such antitrust case in the tech world in decades. The federal government alleges that Google …
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Google CEO Sundar Pichai will testify before Congress on Oct. 28. The US Senate’s Commerce committee had voted unanimously to subpoena the appearances of Zuckerberg, Pichai and Dorsey, but the CEOs agreed to appear without being subpoenaed, according to The Washington Post. The hearing will be called “Does Section 230’s Sweeping Immunity Enable Big Tech …
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Facebook on Monday updated its hate speech policy to prohibit “content that denies or distorts the Holocaust,” the World War II genocide of Europe’s Jewish population by Nazi Germany and its collaborators. “Our decision is supported by the well-documented rise in anti-Semitism globally and the alarming level of ignorance about the Holocaust, especially among young people,” Monika Bickert, vice president …
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Lawmakers from the US House of Representatives accused Facebook, Amazon, Google and Apple of “abuses of monopoly power” in a 449-page report released Tuesday. The House Judiciary antitrust subcommittee drew its conclusions after a 16-month investigation that culminated in an hours-long hearing with Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Apple’s Tim Cook and Google’s Sundar Pichai in July that featured tense exchanges portending a …
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Facebook is ramping up its efforts to get people to join its groups, where they can gather online to discuss specific topics, as one way to overcome isolation amid the coronavirus pandemic. On Thursday, the world’s largest social network unveiled new features aimed at making it easier for people to chat in groups. People who run a Facebook group will be …
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