Biden-Harris admin pressured Meta to censor Americans, says Mark ZuckerbergIn a latest shocking revelation, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has publicly claimed that the current Biden administration, where...
28 Aug, 2024, 06.29 AM IST
Biden-Harris administration pressured Meta to censor Covid content, Zuckerberg tells House CommitteeMark Zuckerberg claimed the Biden-Harris administration pressured Meta to censor Covid-19 content. He expressed regret for not being more v...
27 Aug, 2024, 06.50 AM IST
Mark Zuckerberg admits censoring 'Hunter Biden Laptop' story for a weekMark Zuckerberg's comments come when Meta faces scrutiny from regulators in the US and abroad.
26 Aug, 2022, 01.55 PM IST
Facebook is 'killing people' with Covid-19 misinformation: BidenUS President Joe Biden has hit out at Facebook again, saying that such social media platforms are allowing Covid vaccine misinformation to ...
17 Jul, 2021, 04.28 PM IST
‘They’re killing people’: Biden denounces social media for virus disinformationBiden’s forceful statement capped weeks of anger in the White House over the dissemination of vaccine disinformation online, even as the pa...
17 Jul, 2021, 02.02 PM IST
Facebook won't remove posts claiming Covid-19 is human-madeThere is rising pressure worldwide to investigate the origins of the pandemic, including the possibility that the Covid-19 virus—the SARS-C...
28 May, 2021, 10.49 AM IST
Facebook reverses course, won't ban lab virus theoryThe latest move by Facebook, announced late Wednesday on its website, highlights the challenge of policing misinformation and disinformatio...
27 May, 2021, 07.48 PM IST
Without Donald Trump, political disinformation dips -- for nowWith Trump muted, a comparatively media-shy Biden in the White House, and no election cycle underway, Americans remain interested in econom...
28 Mar, 2021, 07.35 AM IST
@POTUS resets as Twitter juggles presidential accountsThese institutional accounts don't belong any particular individual - they're reserved for official government use by those in the current ...
20 Jan, 2021, 08.24 AM IST
Twitter, Facebook freeze Trump accounts as tech giants respond to storming of US CapitolCiting violation of its Civic Integrity Policy, Twitter said that it had required the removal of at least three of Trump's tweets that were...
07 Jan, 2021, 08.39 AM IST
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg first tech giant head to acknowledge Joe Biden as next US presidentZuckerberg told his employees that the outcome of the November 3 election is now clear and Biden was to take over as the new president of t...
13 Nov, 2020, 05.09 PM IST
Mark Zuckerberg defends not suspending ex-Trump aide Steve Bannon from FacebookZuckerberg acknowledged criticism of Facebook by President-elect Joe Biden but said the company shared some of the Biden team's same concer...
13 Nov, 2020, 10.52 AM IST
Silicon Valley welcomes the Biden presidency, but there are battles looming on the horizonThe transition comes amid a growing "techlash" as lawmakers and policymakers struggle over antitrust enforcement, social media regulation, ...
10 Nov, 2020, 04.47 PM IST
Facebook 'shredding fabric of democracy,' Biden spokesman saysIn most cases where users post false or misleading election-related content, Facebook applies a label with a link to its voter information ...
10 Nov, 2020, 04.09 PM IST
Trump will lose special Twitter protections in January"This policy framework applies to current world leaders and candidates for office, and not private citizens when they no longer hold these ...
08 Nov, 2020, 10.47 PM IST
Donald Trump blasts Facebook, Twitter for censoring article critical of BidenUS President Donald Trump rebuked Facebook and Twitter Wednesday for blocking links to a New York Post article purporting to expose corrupt...
15 Oct, 2020, 08.34 AM IST
View: Facebook controversy has shown that free speech just an excuse to polariseFacebook has now become an uncontrollable Frankenstein, a gargantuan monster that is capable of slaying democracies, upending social behavi...
04 Oct, 2020, 11.06 AM IST