EU presses Meta on plans after disinformation tracker axedMeta has been criticised on both sides of the Atlantic over the decision to shut down CrowdTangle -- a feature considered vital by research...
European regulators crack down on Big TechEU regulators probe Big Tech. Apple addresses DMA breaches, Spotify's complaint. Microsoft leaves OpenAI’s board. Meta's consent model, Cro...
Meta adds safety features to CrowdTangle in bid to address EU concernsThe U.S. social media platform last week said candidates for next month's polls will be shown a notification at the top of their feed in Fa...
'Grave step backwards': Meta shuts monitoring tool in election yearCrowdTangle has been a game-changer for years, offering researchers and journalists crucial real-time transparency into the spread of consp...
Don't let Big Tech hide what it is doing to usWhy the European Union's ambitious new rules should be tweaked to allow journalists to access big tech data.
Don't let big tech hide what it is doing to usWe are living through an information revolution. The traditional gatekeepers of knowledge - librarians, journalists and government official...
AI chatbots have been used to create dozens of news content farmsSome are dressed up as breaking news sites with generic-sounding names like News Live 79 and Daily Business Post, while others share lifest...
Top JeM financier using FB, Telegram, YouTube to sow hatred among Muslims in IndiaGhauri is listed among 38 individuals as a terrorist by the Ministry of Home Affairs under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 (...
Meta pauses new users from joining analytics tool CrowdTangle"We are pausing the ability for people to join CrowdTangle while we work through some staffing constraints," a Meta spokesperson said. New ...
No more apologies: Inside Facebook's push to defend its imageThe effort, which was hatched at an internal meeting in January, had a specific purpose: to use Facebook’s News Feed, the site’s most impor...
Facebook, fearing public outcry, shelved earlier report on popular postsFacebook had prepared a similar report for the first three months of the year, but executives never shared it with the public because of co...
TikTok, YouTube and Facebook want to appear trustworthy. Don't be fooled.Facebook, Twitter and YouTube long ago lost the battle for public opinion, facing ire from consumers and lawmakers about A.I. systems that ...
'Too little, too late': Social media has a Covid vaccine misinformation problem. Here's what experts suggestA serious threat in online settings is that fake news spreads faster than verified and validated news from credible sources.
‘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...
View: Inside Facebook’s data warsWith only about 25,000 users, CrowdTangle is one of Facebook’s smallest products, but it has become a valuable resource for power users inc...
Mumbai Indians get most-engagement on Facebook, beat sports teams like Manchester United and FC BarcelonaMI have successfully defended their crown in in the digital arena.
The strange, sometimes sinister conspiracy theories on Sushant Singh Rajput’s death that flourished on social mediaMost of these theories have since been mainstreamed in various news channels — both on television and those who exclusively operate on the ...