Managers praise Facebook-funded community reporters’ contribution to newsrooms
Nine in ten community news reporters hired by local newspapers and funded by Facebook in the past year feel they…
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US publishers face collapse ‘within weeks’ as Covid-19 adds to ‘duopoly’ woes
US news publishers are demanding help from the president and tech companies as many fear being wiped out “within weeks”…
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Going viral: Twitter and Facebook failing to contain Covid-19 misinformation
Vladimir Putin has released hundreds of lions and tigers on to the streets of Russia to enforce self-isolation. Hollywood celebrities…
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NHS enlists help of social media platforms to tackle coronavirus ‘fake news’
Twitter is suspending accounts sharing false coronavirus news at the behest of the NHS, which has put the onus on…
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Ex-Culture Committee chairman slams Facebook regulation proposals as ‘too little too late’
Former Culture Committee chairman Damian Collins MP has slammed Facebook’s proposals for online content regulation as “too little, too late”.…
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Mark Zuckerberg shows support for online regulation even if it hurts Facebook in near term
Facebook has said it wants to work with governments on “new rules for the internet” as the social network published…
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Twitter and Google grow profits as Facebook slumps amid ‘fake news’ and privacy concerns
Twitter has reported a rise in profits in 2019 while rival social network Facebook faced a rare fall in profits…
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Facebook ‘fake news’ as bad now as during Brexit referendum, ex-Cambridge Analytica employee claims
The amount of fake news on Facebook is no better now than it was during the EU Referendum, a former…
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