In a joint statement, U.S. technology companies, including Alphabet’s Google, Microsoft Corp, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Reddit, and YouTube are working together to quell misinformation about the coronavirus on their platforms. The companies said they were coordination with government healthcare agencies around the world to share critical updates about the Wuhan coronavirus. According to Johns Hopkins…
In a statement Twitter said, the official Twitter account of the Olympics and the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) media Twitter account had been hacked and has been temporarily locked. Twitter’s statement also mentioned that these accounts were hacked through a third-party platform, without giving further details. “As soon as we were made aware of the…
Zero Hedge, a financial market website has been banned from Twitter following the posting of a report which linked a Chinese scientist to the fast-spreading coronavirus outbreak in China. Late last week Zero Hedge said, it has received a notification from Twitter accusing it of violating its “rules against abuse and harassment.” The outbreak of…
On Thursday, Australia started an investigation into the potential usage of foreign influence using social media platforms such as WeChat, Facebook, and Twitter. The development comes in the wake of heightened concerns in the country that China is seeking to cast its influence in Canberra’s affairs. In the past, Russia had used social media to…
Following Twitter and Facebook taking action against Chinese state-backed efforts aimed at discrediting the Hong Kong protests, YouTube has followed on their footsteps. Following Twitter and Facebook dismantling influence campaigns originating from mainland China aimed at disrupting the ongoing Hong Kong protests, Alphabet Inc’s Google also said, its YouTube video streaming service has disabled 210…
While the Chinese government wants to promote its views on western social media platforms, it has blocked its citizens from accessing Twitter and Facebook in the mainland. On Tuesday, following Facebook and Twitter dismantling China’s state-backed campaign to malign and undermine concerns raised by the citizens of Hong Kong, China said it had a right…
A Manhattan court is set to decide whether Elon Musk’s tweets were in violation of his October 2018 settlement with the SEC. Lawyers from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission along with those representing Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk are slated to square off in a Manhattan courtroom next week over whether Musk should be held…
Ireland hosts the European headquarters of a number of U.S. technology firms. The country’s Data Protection Commissioner is investigating hacking attacks as well as how Facebook stores and manages personal information of its massive user database. In what could potentially be a major development, Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner stated, it expects to conclude the first…
The lawsuit is in the same line as those it filed against Facebook and Snap last year. BlackBerry Ltd has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Twitter alleging that it illegally used technology that it developed on its mobile messaging applications. The lawsuit states, Twitter wrongly sought to compensate for being a “relative latecomer” to…
Users across the globe have taken to twitter with the #instagramdown hashtag, complaining that the service is down. On Wednesday, users of of Facebook’s photo and video sharing app, Instagram complained of outage. Users across several cities spread across the globe, including London, San Francisco and Singapore took to Twitter complaining about the outage with…
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