Over 170,000 Pro-China Accounts Posting Pandemic Posts Removed By Twitter

More than 170,000 twitter accounts that were allegedly linked to an operation to spread pro-China messages have been removed by Twitter, the social micro blogging site has been has said. Making the announcement, the social media platform said that some of the accounts were engaged in posting about the coronavirus outbreak. “A core network” of…

Covid-19 Pandemic Has Accelerated Push For Central Bank Digital Currencies

The process of development of crypto currencies by the central banks, known as central bank digital currencies or CBDCs, has been accelerated by the emergence of the novel coronavirus pandemic globally. The pandemic related crisis has not only forced millions to stay at home in order to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus but…

Rights Group Alleges Zoom Temporarily Shut Down Its Account Following Even On Tiananmen Square Anniversary

Allegations against the video conferencing company Zoom had temporarily shut down the account of a United States based group that supports human rights in China after the group had organized an event on the platform to remember the Tiananmen Square massacre of China. The group described the incident of blocking their account as outrageous. The…

New Report Predicts Airline Job Cuts In UK May Be Same As 1980s Mining Industry Slump

A new report on the airline industry of the United Kingdom has warned that a jobs crisis in British aviation industry that is comparable to the scale of the coal mining industry’s collapse during the 1980s was on the cards because of the grounding of air travel during the coronavirus pandemic. This report from the…

‘You’re The Kind Of Customer I’m Happy To Lose’, Says Amazon’s Bezos To Racist Customer

A customer of Amazon who was angry as he criticized the company’s support of the Black Lives Matter movement was given a befitting reply by the company’s CEO Jeff Bezos trough an e-mail. In an Instagram post late Sunday, Bezos described the customer’s email as “sickening” and added that the individual was just the kind…

Labels on state controlled media from Russian, China and others will be placed by Facebook

Facebook Inc said that it will start labeling media organizations that are that are state controlled by governments such as in Russia, China and other countries and will start blocking any advertisements from these media outlets that are targeted at users of the largest social media platform n eh United States later this year. According…

Astrazeneca Increases Potential Covid-19 Vaccine Production Capacity Two Folds To 2bn Doses

Following agreements with a number of entities, which includes two health organisations backed by Bill and Melinda Gates, pharma giant AstraZeneca has said that it has now managed to double its manufacturing capacity for its potential Covid-19 vaccine to 2 billion doses. The company had said last week that its capacity of manufacturing the vaccine…