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Following a deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol at the hands of Trump supporters Wednesday, the president’s preferred platform has banned him, citing the risk of “further incitement of violence.” -
The president’s preferred social media outlet, Twitter, took action to block his posts following a deadly invasion of the U.S. Capitol by pro-Trump supporters Jan. 6.
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The social media company has suspended President Trump's account through the remainder of his presidential term following a deadly riot and invasion of the U.S. Capitol building yesterday.
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After feuding with Twitter over fact-checking labels, President Trump signed an order urging regulators to reconsider statutes that protect social media companies from liability for third-party content on their platforms.
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The company plans to “aggressively open up remote hiring” starting immediately with the U.S. Remote workers could make up as much as 50 percent of Facebook’s workforce in the next five to 10 years.
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, state-supported groups and cybercriminals may target networks, websites and social media streams to disrupt information flow, deceive the public and interfere with legitimate government functions.
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With people sharing information such as the year they graduated and their school name, identity thieves can use that information to answer security questions companies typically ask to authenticate their identity.
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Disinformation of all different stripes is still a persistent problem when it comes to the COVID-19 crisis. Increased reliance on social media and spiking Internet use have helped fuel these campaigns.
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As the novel coronavirus continues to batter the U.S., transit agencies are searching for ways to reach riders and staff. Despite sweeping ridership declines, many frontline health workers rely on transit services.
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New data from technology companies Cloudflare and ZenCity help to illustrate when, how and to what extent interaction with government online has changed since COVID-19 led to widescale shutdowns across American society.
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Rather than trying to track the novel coronavirus online like several other studies, researchers in Missouri are trying to measure topics of concern, subjectivity, social distancing and public sentiment.
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Local governments have an obligation to keep conducting business and engaging the public during the global pandemic, but there can often be more to virtual public meetings than meets the eye.
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As we practice social distancing, our embrace of social media gets only tighter. The major social media platforms have emerged as the critical information purveyors for influencing the choices people make during the expanding pandemic. There’s also reason for worry: the World Health Organization is concerned about an “infodemic,” a glut of accurate and inaccurate information about COVID-19.
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As COVID-19 spreads across the world, a new virus is brewing and spreading like wildfire. From miraculous cures to paranoid conspiracies, misinformation about the coronavirus has been going viral at a disturbing rate.
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According to a new study, online actors may be pushing false narratives through social media to sow chaos. While it's unclear where the information is coming from exactly, it poses dangers to people looking for information.
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According to a new report from Duke University’s Center on Science and Technology Policy, online platforms hold a gold mine of data that could help digital epidemiologists track the coronavirus more accurately.
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With uncertainty surrounding the coronavirus pandemic and how it’ll transform the Las Vegas Valley, tricksters are playing with people’s nerves by sharing tales on social media of crimes that haven’t occurred.
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Middletown Mayor Ben Florsheim began reporting from his office in February about items on monthly meeting agendas, making videos within the half-hour before Florsheim heads down to the session in council chambers.
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A senator is proposing a bill that would aim to authorize residents’ requests to remove have content removed from the Internet in Iowa. If passed, this would mandate that the operator remove the requested content within 30 days.
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A state district judge in Houston told Facebook on Jan. 29 that it must take down a privacy tool announced with much ballyhoo that same day and promoted with a blog post by founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
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The social media company announced that two data center buildings on the 340-acre campus went online Thursday. The Menlo Park, Calif.-based company plans to add two more buildings.
