Category: Internet
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Facebook to educate Nigerians about platform
Facebook says it will educate Nigerian users more about the platform through ”It’s Your Facebook Pop-up Showcase”. Speaking during the “It’s Your Facebook” preview event in Lagos, its Head of Policy Programmes (Africa), Sherry Dzinoreva, said that it was an opportunity for users to meet and know more about Facebook. Dzinoreva described Facebook as a…
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Facebook, Google defend efforts to remove hate speech before Congress
Facebook Inc and Alphabet Inc’s Google unit on Tuesday defended their efforts to remove hate speech from social media sites amid questions from lawmakers in an appearance before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee. Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specialises in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine,…
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EU lawmakers back bill to remove online terrorism content
Internet hosting services that fail to promptly remove online terrorist content could face hefty fines under a draft bill approved by an EU parliamentary committee on Monday. The bill was passed overwhelmingly by the parliament’s civil liberties committee and faces a full parliamentary vote next week. Companies could be fined up to four per cent…
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Facebook charts headway against abuses
Facebook said it has made strides in its efforts to prevent online abuses in the Indian national election that starts this week, however, acknowledged that gaps remain in its “election integrity’’ efforts. During a media tour of the company’s election operations centre at its Menlo Park headquarters in California on Friday, company officials touted new…
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U.S. Presidential Election: Zuckerberg confident of stopping interference in 2020 campaign
Facebook Inc’s Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg is confident the world’s biggest social network will do better in 2020 at stopping “bad actors’’ from manipulating the U.S. presidential election. “We’ve learned a lot since 2016, where, obviously, we were behind where we needed to be on defences for nation states trying to interfere,” he said…
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Twitter backs down on ban of French government’s voter sign-up ads
Social media company, Twitter, on Thursday said it will allow French Government ads encouraging voters to sign up for May’s European elections after an earlier ban infuriated Paris. The government voter registration campaign had itself become the most public victim of a new French law aimed at preventing elections being influenced by fake news and…
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Microsoft Store closes books category
Starting April 2, 2019, the books category in Microsoft Store will be closing. TheNewsGuru (TNG) reports starting July 2019, ebooks will no longer be available to readers. Readers will no longer be able to purchase or acquire additional books from the Microsoft Store. However, readeer can continue to read books until July 2019 when refunds…
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Cybercrime: NCC to establish Incidence Response Team soon
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has said that the Cyber Security Incidence Response Team (CSIRT) will soon be established, to curb cybercrime. The Executive Vice Chairman, NCC, Prof. Umar Danbatta made this known during the 87th Edition of the Telecom Consumer Parliament (TCP) on Monday in Lagos. The theme of the TCP is ”Challenges of…
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WhatsApp launches fact-check service to fight fake news
WhatsApp on Tuesday launched a service for Indians to check the veracity of information in the messaging platform’s latest attempt to combat fake news in India ahead of national elections beginning this month. WhatsApp said in a statement it was working with local startup Proto to classify messages sent to the service by users as…
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Facebook charged with racial discrimination in targeted housing ads
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) charged Facebook Inc on Thursday with violating the Fair Housing Act, alleging that the company’s targeted advertising discriminated on the basis of race and color. Seeking damages and unspecified appropriate relief for the harm caused, HUD said in its civil charge that Facebook also restricted, who…