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Monetising content

Wikipedia's new initiative will make it more sustainable

US trade chief readies tariffs against six countries over digital taxes

The taxes target in-country revenues of digital services platforms, such as Facebook, Google, and Amazon.com

Facebook CEO Zuckerberg blames Trump, rioters for US Capitol attack

Facebook CEO Zuckerberg refused to own up any responsibility for the Jan 6 attack on the Capitol as he put the blame on Trump for his "words" and the people involved in the assault for "their actions"

Big Tech CEOs told 'time for self-regulation is over' by US lawmakers

The chief executives of Facebook, Google and Twitter faced criticism from US lawmakers on Thursday about their approaches to extremism and misinformation

US Congress to press Big Tech CEOs over hate speech, misinformation

The CEOs of social media giants Facebook, Twitter and Google face a new grilling by Congress, one focused on their efforts to prevent their platforms from spreading falsehoods and inciting violence

Facebook disrupts Chinese hackers' operation targeting Uyghurs, journalists

Facebook has taken action against a group of hackers in China who were targeting dissidents, mostly Uyghurs from Xinjiang province, the company's Cyber Espionage team said on Wednesday

Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg lays out steps to reform internet rules

Zuckerberg acknowledged the calls for changes to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act

CCI orders antitrust probe against WhatsApp's new privacy policy

CCI said that with no fear of erosion of its userbase, Facebook-owned WhatsApp was in a position to compromise quality in terms of protection of individualised data

Robotic futures

Book review of GENIUS MAKERS: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World

Facebook lifts S&P 500 and Nasdaq as US Treasury yields pause

Reversing a recent trend, so-called growth stocks mostly outperformed value stocks viewed as more likely to outperform as the economy recovers from the coronavirus pandemic

Facebook services suffer outage with Instagram down for nearly a million

Downdetector showed there were more than 1.2 million incidents of people reporting issues with Instagram

India's share of IPOs continues to fall relative to rest of the world

This year is set to be the third consecutive year when India's share of initial public offers (IPOs) has fallen relative to the rest of the world

Facebook gets tougher with groups that violate its community guidelines

Facebook has announced new measures to prevent its interest-based forums called Groups from spreading harmful content

Enact law to make Facebook, Google pay for news: BJP's Sushil Modi

Rajya Sabha Chairman and Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu remarked that the suggestion is "worth considering"

News Corp inks Australia Facebook deal, signalling truce after blackout

Facebook's shutting out all media content in the country for a week last month angered world leaders, as the blackout included emergency services and government health pages

News Corp inks Australia Facebook deal, signalling truce after blackout

Google had also objected for months and threatened, like Facebook, to withdraw core services from the country, before signing deals with most media outlets

News Corp reaches three-year agreement with Facebook in Australia

News Corp said on Monday it had reached a three-year agreement to provide Facebook Inc users access to news in Australia.

Facebook to label vaccine posts to combat Covid-19 misinformation

Facebook is adding informational labels to posts about vaccines as it expands efforts to counter Covid-19-related misinformation flourishing on its platforms

Facebook to label vaccine posts to combat Covid-19 misinformation

Facebook is adding informational labels to posts about vaccines

Just 111 FB users spreading half of major coronavirus vaccine doubts

The findings showed that just 10 out of the 638 population segments contained 50 per cent of all vaccine hesitancy content on the platform