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Code Launched To Stem Fake News

March 2, 2021

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Social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Google have released the final version of a long-awaited industry code to address the...

Staff Take To Burner Phones To Badmouth Facebook Boss During Coronavirus Epidemic

April 8, 2020

David Richards

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Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg is in strife with staff taking to burner phones to badmouth their boss. The staff claim that they...

Instagram To Improve Consumer Experience With Global Fact Checking

December 18, 2019

Camilla Theakstone

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In it’s latest move to curb the spread of misinformation and increase consumer confidence, Instagram has announced it will take it’s fact-checking...

Fake News: Senate Probe To Examine Social Media

December 6, 2019

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In a bid to stamp out the pernicious use of “fake news”, fuelled by foreign actors on social media, the Morrison Government...

Labor Demands Facebook Probe Into Election Ads

September 23, 2019

Computer Daily News

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Labor has urged Parliament’s joint standing committee on electoral matters to investigate social media giant Facebook for refusing to take down fake...

WhatsApp Limit Message Sharing, Fight Fake News

January 22, 2019

Roma Christian

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Facebook-owned messaging service, WhatsApp, has cracked down on fake news, with users now restricted to forwarding a text up to five times....

Social Media Giants Discuss Election Meddling

August 27, 2018

Thomas Hellier

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Google, Facebook and Twitter executives met on Friday August 25 to discuss strategies to stop meddling in the 2018 United States mid-term...

Mozilla To Target ‘Fake News’

August 10, 2017

Fergus Halliday

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Mozilla has announced a new initiative designed to combat the rise and proliferation of fake news online, called the Mozilla Information Trust Initiative...