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Twitter's Official Account Changes Color In Solidarity With Black Lives Matter Movement
Monday, June 1, 2020 - 2:14am | 448Read More...Twitter Inc. (NYSE: TWTR) changed its profile pictures to express solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement as protests raged across the United States over the death of George Floyd, an African-American man who died after a policeman restrained him with a knee on the neck. What...
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Trump Gets Mad Over Fact Check Warning On Twitter, Claims Election Interference
Wednesday, May 27, 2020 - 1:21am | 454Read More...After Twitter Inc. (NASDAQ: TWTR) inserted a fact check link to two of his tweets, President Donald Trump accused the social media platform of stifling free speech and electoral interference. What Happened On Tuesday, Trump tweeted about mail-in ballots claiming they couldn’t be “...
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#BoycottFedEx Movement Trending After Employees Encountered With Racist Customer Were Fired
Thursday, May 21, 2020 - 7:40am | 527Read More...A viral video of a standoff between two FedEx Corporation (NYSE: FDX) employees and a customer, has led to a call for the boycott of the delivery and logistics company. What Happened Two FedEx employees Antonio and Felinzay were making deliveries to a house in Leesburg, Georgia on Wednesday,...
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Twitter To Remove Coronavirus Misinformation, Including That Tweeted By Trump
Tuesday, May 12, 2020 - 3:50am | 494Read More...Twitter Inc. (NYSE: TWTR) announced on Monday that it will start labeling novel coronavirus (COVID-19) related information for misleading or contested claims starting the same day. Twiter To Target Harmful COVID-19 Content Tweets will be marked among three broad categories, including...
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VoIP Pioneer Launches Blockchain-Based Video Communications Platform
Saturday, April 11, 2020 - 11:11am | 455Read More...Last week, Zoom Video Communications Inc (NASDAQ: ZM) went under heat after pranksters were found joining private calls and broadcasting explicit videos. As part of the development security researchers and privacy advocates voiced concerns and requested formal investigations into the company...
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Twitter Donates $1M To Support Journalism During Pandemic
Thursday, March 26, 2020 - 7:41am | 226Read More...Twitter announced that it would donate $1 million across two organizations for supporting the world of journalism during the pandemic. What Happened Twitter announced that the $1 million donations would be equally distributed between two organizations, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ...
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COVID-19: Where It's From And Where We're Going
Friday, March 20, 2020 - 3:21pm | 711Read More...The entire financial market has been severely impacted by the novel coronavirus, COVID-19. That said, how did this natural disaster unfold and what does it mean for traders and investors? Background In 2015, FDA scientists, American and European scholars, in addition to the Wuhan Institute of...
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How The Coronavirus Is Infecting The Social Media Giants
Thursday, March 5, 2020 - 10:26am | 828Read More...It is the official's duty to regularly post information about the infection spread, news about the available treatments, alerts and similar. But at the same time, a lot of news is flying around social media networks- as social media has become more effective than traditional sources. So maybe...
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More Than 70 Accounts Promoting Bloomberg's Campaign Banned On Twitter
Monday, February 24, 2020 - 4:28am | 389Read More...Twitter Inc. (NYSE: TWTR) banned at least 70 accounts promoting Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg's campaign starting Friday, the Los Angeles Times reported. What Happened "We have taken enforcement action on a group of accounts for violating our rules against platform...
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Facebook To Pay Users $5 For Their Voice Recordings
Friday, February 21, 2020 - 5:48am | 373Read More...Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) will pay users $5 for sharing their voice recordings, the company announced Thursday. What Happened The voice recordings would be used for improving Facebook's speech recognition technology, as first reported by The Verge. Users of Facebook's Viewpoints app, aimed...
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No More Immunity? Justice Department Wants Tech Companies To Have Legal Responsibility For Content Posted On Their Platforms
Thursday, February 20, 2020 - 9:42am | 579Read More...The United States Department of Justice held a workshop discussing Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act on Wednesday that grants technology companies immunity from legal actions arising from content published by third-parties on their platform. The Takeaways Attorney General William...
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Twitter Up, Tesla Down: Strong User Numbers Help TWTR, But TSLA Selling Continues
Thursday, February 6, 2020 - 10:36am | 1869Read More...The beat goes on, but a little less intensely so far today. Though stocks enjoyed more overnight gains as China announced tariff cuts and overseas markets rose, it looks like the parabolic rally of the last two days is slowing down. That’s not too surprising. Major indices are at record highs...
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Facebook Sends Cease And Desist Letter To AI Startup, Joins Twitter, Venmo, YouTube
Thursday, February 6, 2020 - 7:16am | 571Read More...Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) has joined other social media giants and has sent Clearview AI a cease and desist letter to stop using user images to identify them for law enforcement. What Happened Clearview AI has been scrapping billions of photos from the internet and facilitating more...
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Twitter: 'State-Backed Actors' In Iran, Israel May've Exploited Glitch That Matched Users To Phone Numbers
Tuesday, February 4, 2020 - 5:27am | 360Read More...Twitter Inc. (NYSE: TWTR) on Monday said that a vulnerability in its android application might have been exploited by "state-backed actors" in Iran, Israel, and Malaysia. What Happened The vulnerability made it possible for anyone to generate random phone numbers and match them to...
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Stephen King Quits Facebook Over Political Ads And Security Concerns Controversy
Monday, February 3, 2020 - 1:05am | 395Read More...The famous horror author Stephen King announced his decision to delete his Facebook account. King is an active social media user with 5.6 million followers on Twitter. What Happened Tweeting about his decision, King said, “I'm quitting Facebook. Not comfortable with the flood of...
