Social media giants fail to tackle 90% of Covid-19 misinformation – new study
Social media giants are failing to tackle more than 90 per cent of Covid-19 misinformation posts, a new study out…
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Cash for conspiracies: How David Icke, ‘alternative’ media and tech giants make money from coronavirus conspiracies
David Icke has a theory about why Iran was badly hit by coronavirus in March. Sort of. “We have a…
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Google and Facebook share prices recover from Covid-19 slump while ad-reliant publishers struggle
Google and Facebook’s share prices have recovered to pre-coronavirus crisis levels, suggesting fears over their advertising revenues are receding. But…
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Soaring Q1 revenues for Google and Facebook could spell good news for global news industry
Google owner Alphabet and Facebook both surpassed expectations with their revenues in the first three months of the year, despite…
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Ad market abuse concerns cited by shareholders launching bid to oust Mark Zuckerberg as Facebook chairman
A group of Facebook investors is seeking to remove Mark Zuckerberg as chairman, citing several controversies facing the tech giant,…
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Australia to force Google and Facebook to pay for news content
Global digital platforms Google and Facebook will be forced to pay for news content in Australia, the government has said,…
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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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