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Facebook Disables Some Misleading Ads on HIV Prevention Drugs, Responding to Growing Outcry
Facebook has quietly started removing some misleading ads about HIV prevention medication, responding to a deluge of activists, health experts and government regulators who said the tech giant had created the conditions for a public-health crisis.
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Facebook Rebuffs US Justice Department Request to Abandon Plans to Encrypt Chats
Facebook has rebuffed a request from US Attorney General William Barr that it halt its plan to deploy strong encryption across its messaging apps.
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Facebook Ads Push Misinformation About HIV Prevention Drugs, LGBT Activists Say, 'Harming Public Health'
Facebook users have been bombarded with misleading ads about medication meant to prevent the transmission of HIV, according to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender advocates.
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TikTok Chief Said to Schedule Meet With US Lawmakers as China-Origin Investigations Loom
TikTok's leader, Alex Zhu, is set to pay his first known visit to Capitol Hill next week, meeting with lawmakers in an attempt to combat concerns that the company's Chinese origins pose serious privacy, security and censorship risks.
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TikTok Admits Error After Penalising Teen Who Posted Political Videos
TikTok has acknowledged it had erred in penalising a 17-year-old who had posted witty but incisive political videos, promising it would restore her ability to access her account on her personal device.
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TikTok Admits Error For Penalizing Teen Who Posted Videos On China Detention Camps
TikTok on Wednesday acknowledged it had erred in penalizing a 17-year-old who had posted witty but incisive political videos, promising it would restore her ability to access her account on her personal device.
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US Teen's TikTok Video On China Detention Camps Goes Viral. Then This
Feroza Aziz started her TikTok video like a typical makeup tutorial, telling viewers she would show them how to get long eyelashes. Then the 17-year-old stopped abruptly, calling instead on viewers to start researching the harrowing conditions facing Muslims in China's detention camps.
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TikTok Blocks Teen Who Posted About China's Detention Camps
TikTok has said its audience prefers to use the video app for entertainment, not political debates, and that its executives have pushed to preserve the app as a refuge for positivity online.
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Google's New Election Ad Rules Unite US Political Campaigns in Opposition
Google's New Election Ad Rules Unite US Political Campaigns in Opposition
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Apple, TikTok Draw US Congressional Rebuke for Sitting Out of Hearing on China
Apple and TikTok took a lashing Tuesday for skipping a congressional hearing meant to explore the tech industry and its ties to China, an absence that now threatens to bring sustained political scrutiny of the companies' controversial relationships with Beijing.
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Inside TikTok: A Culture Clash Where US Views About Censorship Often Were Overridden by the Chinese Bosses
The wildly popular short-video app TikTok has become one of the world's fastest-growing social media platforms, known for its quirky memes and viral singalongs.
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Facebook Says 100 App Developers May Have Improperly Accessed User Data
Facebook on Tuesday acknowledged another privacy mishap on its platform: This time, some app developers may have wrongly accessed names and profile photos about users in certain groups.
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TikTok Declines to Testify to US Congress About China
Executives from the Chinese video app TikTok have declined to testify at a congressional hearing set for Tuesday that aims to explore the tech industry and its ties to China.
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Twitter To Ban All Political Ads Amid 2020 US Election Uproar
Twitter on Wednesday said it would ban all advertisements about political candidates, elections and hot-button policy issues such as abortion and immigration, a significant shift that comes in response to growing concerns that politicians are seizing on the vast reach of social media to deceive voters ahead of the 2020 election.
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Years After Obama Used Facebook To Win, Big Tech Under Democratic Fire
The Democratic Party's rapidly fading love affair with Big Tech has broken into open acrimony in recent weeks, punctuated by a presidential debate Tuesday in which leading candidates took turns decrying the industry's impact on the nation and workshopping ways to rein it in.
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Facebook Disables Some Misleading Ads on HIV Prevention Drugs, Responding to Growing Outcry
Facebook has quietly started removing some misleading ads about HIV prevention medication, responding to a deluge of activists, health experts and government regulators who said the tech giant had created the conditions for a public-health crisis.
-
Facebook Rebuffs US Justice Department Request to Abandon Plans to Encrypt Chats
Facebook has rebuffed a request from US Attorney General William Barr that it halt its plan to deploy strong encryption across its messaging apps.
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Facebook Ads Push Misinformation About HIV Prevention Drugs, LGBT Activists Say, 'Harming Public Health'
Facebook users have been bombarded with misleading ads about medication meant to prevent the transmission of HIV, according to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender advocates.
-
TikTok Chief Said to Schedule Meet With US Lawmakers as China-Origin Investigations Loom
TikTok's leader, Alex Zhu, is set to pay his first known visit to Capitol Hill next week, meeting with lawmakers in an attempt to combat concerns that the company's Chinese origins pose serious privacy, security and censorship risks.
-
TikTok Admits Error After Penalising Teen Who Posted Political Videos
TikTok has acknowledged it had erred in penalising a 17-year-old who had posted witty but incisive political videos, promising it would restore her ability to access her account on her personal device.
-
TikTok Admits Error For Penalizing Teen Who Posted Videos On China Detention Camps
TikTok on Wednesday acknowledged it had erred in penalizing a 17-year-old who had posted witty but incisive political videos, promising it would restore her ability to access her account on her personal device.
-
US Teen's TikTok Video On China Detention Camps Goes Viral. Then This
Feroza Aziz started her TikTok video like a typical makeup tutorial, telling viewers she would show them how to get long eyelashes. Then the 17-year-old stopped abruptly, calling instead on viewers to start researching the harrowing conditions facing Muslims in China's detention camps.
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TikTok Blocks Teen Who Posted About China's Detention Camps
TikTok has said its audience prefers to use the video app for entertainment, not political debates, and that its executives have pushed to preserve the app as a refuge for positivity online.
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Google's New Election Ad Rules Unite US Political Campaigns in Opposition
Google's New Election Ad Rules Unite US Political Campaigns in Opposition
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Apple, TikTok Draw US Congressional Rebuke for Sitting Out of Hearing on China
Apple and TikTok took a lashing Tuesday for skipping a congressional hearing meant to explore the tech industry and its ties to China, an absence that now threatens to bring sustained political scrutiny of the companies' controversial relationships with Beijing.
-
Inside TikTok: A Culture Clash Where US Views About Censorship Often Were Overridden by the Chinese Bosses
The wildly popular short-video app TikTok has become one of the world's fastest-growing social media platforms, known for its quirky memes and viral singalongs.
-
Facebook Says 100 App Developers May Have Improperly Accessed User Data
Facebook on Tuesday acknowledged another privacy mishap on its platform: This time, some app developers may have wrongly accessed names and profile photos about users in certain groups.
-
TikTok Declines to Testify to US Congress About China
Executives from the Chinese video app TikTok have declined to testify at a congressional hearing set for Tuesday that aims to explore the tech industry and its ties to China.
-
Twitter To Ban All Political Ads Amid 2020 US Election Uproar
Twitter on Wednesday said it would ban all advertisements about political candidates, elections and hot-button policy issues such as abortion and immigration, a significant shift that comes in response to growing concerns that politicians are seizing on the vast reach of social media to deceive voters ahead of the 2020 election.
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Years After Obama Used Facebook To Win, Big Tech Under Democratic Fire
The Democratic Party's rapidly fading love affair with Big Tech has broken into open acrimony in recent weeks, punctuated by a presidential debate Tuesday in which leading candidates took turns decrying the industry's impact on the nation and workshopping ways to rein it in.
