By Barbara Ortutay
Facebook failed to detect blatant election-related misinformation in ads ahead of Brazil's 2022 election, a new report from Global Witness has found, continuing a pattern of not catching material that violates its policies the group describes as "alarming."
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Newspaper publisher Gannett Co. confirmed Friday that it's laying off some of its newsroom staff, part of a cost-cutting effort to lower expenses as its revenue crumbles amid a downturn in ad sales and customer subscriptions.
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Twitter is enforcing a new policy for the 2022 midterm elections designed to restrict the spread of information that the social media platform deems misleading or harmful, signaling more censorship of online political speech.
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Veteran Fox News Channel anchor Shannon Bream will helm the network's Sunday morning political talk show, filling the shoes of Chris Wallace, who left Fox last year for a stint on CNN's short-lived streaming service.
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The Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday rejected an application for Elon Musk's Starlink satellite internet project to collect $885 million in subsidies to provide broadband to rural Americans.
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A pair of wide-ranging social media studies released Wednesday finds cyberbullying complaints highest on Meta's Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram platforms as adolescents increasingly switch to TikTok.
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A federal jury found former Twitter employee Ahmad Abouammo guilty on Tuesday of spying for Saudi Arabia, using his access at the social media company to inform on the kingdom's critics.
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Axios Media is being acquired by Cox Enterprises, which said Monday that it plans to push the online news provider into new markets while broadening its coverage.
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Elon Musk has challenged Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal to a public debate about the number of fake accounts on his social media platform, a contentious issue that upended the SpaceX and Tesla CEO's planned takeover of Twitter.
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By Hillel Italie
The government is trying to demonstrate that the merger will lead to less competition for bestselling authors, lowering their advances and reducing the number of books.
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By Amanda Seitz
Facebook owner Meta is quietly curtailing some of the safeguards designed to thwart voting misinformation or foreign interference in U.S. elections as the November midterm vote approaches.
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By Barbara Ortutay
Twitter denied in a court filing that it had deprived its would-be acquirer, billionaire and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, of necessary information or misrepresented details about its business.
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By Jim Vertuno
A Texas jury on Thursday ordered conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to pay more than $4 million in compensatory damages to the parents of a 6-year-old boy who was killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, marking the first time the Infowars host has been held financially liable for repeatedly claiming the deadliest school shooting in U.S. history was a hoax.
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