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The login/sign up screen for a Twitter account is seen on a laptop computer Tuesday, April 27, 2021, in Orlando, Fla. Twitter has signed deals with The Associated Press and Reuters news agencies to help elevate accurate information on its platform. Twitter said Monday, Aug. 2, that the program will...

YouTube is owned by Google parent company Alphabet. YouTube said Sunday it had barred Sky News Australia from uploading new content for one week, citing concerns about COVID-19 misinformation. The move comes after a review of posts uploaded by the Rupert Murdoch-owned TV channel, which has a substantial online presence....

Twitter said the cash rewards it's offering are "the industry's first algorithmic bias bounty" Twitter said Friday it would offer a cash "bounty" to users and researchers to help root out algorithmic bias on the social media platform. The San Francisco tech firm said this would be "the industry's first...

Credit: CC0 Public Domain University of Arkansas English professor Adam Pope and his colleague at San Jose State University examined lax oversight of advertising on Facebook during the 2016 political campaign and found a systematic bias toward ad buyers, specifically a Russian internet troll farm that sought to sow discord...

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Following the Surgeon General's July 15 advisory on health misinformation and social media, President Joe Biden remarked that Facebook and other social media platforms are "killing people." Though Biden quickly backpedaled on his remark, Facebook rebutted it, citing instead its own study that showed increasing "vaccine...

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Twitter has closed its San Francisco and New York offices as COVID-19 cases surge from the highly contagious delta variant, the latest sign that companies are rethinking their reopening plans and taking new precautions against the coronavirus spread. The closures come just two weeks after the...

Credit: CC0 Public Domain The U.S. economy stands to gain $160 billion a year in extra output from a successful national high-speed internet plan that would boost labor productivity and allow more people to work from home, according to new research. The study, which is based on survey data, attempts...

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A Moscow court ordered Google on Thursday to pay a fine of 3 million rubles (roughly $41,000) for refusing to store the personal data of Russian users on servers in Russia, a move that is part of the government's longstanding effort to tighten its grip on...

Twitter is testing a feature allowing consumers to make purchases directly on the platform, getting into the growing field of "social commerce" Twitter on Wednesday began testing a feature allowing businesses sell goods from their profile pages at the one-to-many messaging platform. A "Shopping Module" being tried by a few...

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Imagine a world where you could sit on the same couch as a friend who lives thousands of miles away, or conjure up a virtual version of your workplace while at the beach. Welcome to the metaverse: a vision of the future that sounds fantastical, but...

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Facing an onslaught of ongoing criticism, Facebook said that it's taking several steps to make Instagram safer and private for teens. On Tuesday, the social network said it's making changes to Instagram, the photo- and video-sharing app with more than 1 billion users. They include automatically...

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Instagram on Tuesday introduced changes designed to keep young users safer by making them harder to find at the image-centric social network. Tweaks rolling out to Instagram in Australia, Britain, France, Japan and the United States include software designed to spot "suspicious behavior" by adults trying...

Credit: Chart: The Conversation US, CC-BY-ND Source: Nick Merrill, the Internet Atlas Project You try to use your credit card, but it doesn't work. In fact, no one's credit card works. You try to go to some news sites to find out why, but you can't access any of those,...

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Facebook on Monday said it was combining specialists from across its hardware, gaming and virtual reality units to build an immersive digital world known as the "metaverse." The "metaverse," a term coined by sci-fi writer Neal Stephenson, refers to a shared online world in which multiple...

Worldwide, Gen Z have increasingly been abandoning Facebook in favour of other apps. Like internet personalities the world over, Kenyan TikTok comedian Mark Mwas was intrigued when Facebook announced a $1 billion plan to pay content creators like him. But the 25-year-old, whose following surged past 160,000 as entertainment-starved Kenyans...

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Twitter is outright blatant when it says it wants to make money for you—and for them—through its slew of new features including Super Follows and Tip Jar. That's a big boast and subsequent bet as the social media platform stock surged after posting a strong second-quarter...

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Ready to participate in your own Summer Games? Google will roll out a new interactive game Friday available through its Search logo, one of several updates planned to keep visitors up to date on the Tokyo Olympics.The company's interactive Doodle game will have players competing in...

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Websites were briefly knocked offline Thursday after a software update triggered a glitch at network specialty firm Akamai. Reports of internet outages from locations around the world spiked at website Downdetector, with US-based Akamai saying some websites were offline for as long as an hour."A software...

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Disagreement seems to spread online posts faster and further than agreement, according to a new study from the University of Central Florida. The finding comes from an examination of posts labeled controversial on social news aggregation site Reddit. To perform the study, the researchers analyzed more...

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Clubhouse, the popular audio-streaming app accessible only by invitation, just got a lot more inviting. Clubhouse announced Wednesday that it is ditching its signature invite-only structure in favor of a more open model, which will allow anyone to join a public livestream at any time—no wait...