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Topline In an election cycle that has seen major social media firms seek to stop the spread of QAnon that has grown in popularity across the different platforms, TikTok is ramping up its existing restrictions and is banning content and accounts that spread the sprawling and unfounded conspiracy …
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Dr. Scott Atlas, a member of the White House coronavirus task force, had one of his tweets removed by Twitter on Sunday. The tweet in question, had Atlas claiming that face masks don’t prevent the spread of coronavirus. Atlas, who is a neuroradiologist and health care policy expert, wrote on …
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Facebook is facing its toughest challenge yet: an election complicated by a pandemic, a deeply divided nation lured by conspiracy theories and alternate versions of reality. Is it ready? Here are some of the biggest steps and missteps it’s taken in the fight against misinformation since 2016. Nov. …
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More than anything in recent memory, this pandemic highlights the importance of interdependence and community, on a global scale. If you don’t wear a seatbelt, you are mostly only putting yourself at risk; if you don’t practice infection-control, you are putting me and mine at risk, along with your …
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Greetings, earthlings. I’m Carolina A. Miranda, staff writer at the Los Angeles Times, and this week I come to you with lots of essential culture news and a whole lot of hammer: Our digital morass On Wednesday, the German ambassador to the United States, Emily Haber, posted an image of the …
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Phantom “exposure notifications” sent out by the NHS Covid-19 tracing app have distressed users who have installed it on their iOS and Android devices. Alerts informing possible exposure to a COVID-19 case appear on users’ phones, but tapping on these notifications only makes them disappear – and …
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The efforts of Facebook and Twitter to be seen as neutral platforms ahead of the US election have instead placed them in the limelight. Both social media platforms were caught in a quandary this week when the New York Post began to publish a series of stories based on an unverified trove of emails …
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Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter ban certain posts from its platform. Anadolu Agency/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Anadolu Agency/Getty Images Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter ban certain posts from its platform. Anadolu Agency/Getty Images As Election Day nears, Facebook and Twitter are …
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For a long time, Facebook opted to be on the sidelines of every public health debate and tolerated the spread of anti-vaccination content on its platform. However, this year they decided to change their idle stance and have actively been making changes to how it deals with this type of content. …
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Are retweets really endorsements or not ? The issue took center stage during President Trump’s town hall Thursday night. A notable moment during the NBC special — which aired the same time as former Vice President Joe Biden’s ABC town hall — was when moderator Savannah Guthrie called out the …
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