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Facebook will Remove Harmful Misinformation About COVID-19

Facebook will Remove Harmful Misinformation About COVID-19

Facebook announced that they are limiting misinformation about COVID-19. Facebook has directed over 2 billion people to resources from the WHO and other health authorities through their COVID-19 Information Center and pop-ups on Facebook and Instagram with over 350 million…

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Facebook

Facebook to Award $100 M in Cash Grants to Small Businesses

Facebook’s Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg posted on Facebook about the company’s plans to help small businesses that have been affected by COVID-19. In the post, she stated that the economic disruption poses a severe risk to small businesses. Facebook…

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Facebook

Facebook Will Allow Bloomberg’s Political Memes

Yesterday, The New York Times reported that Mike Bloomberg is working with Meme 2020 for the purpose of having the company make memes that support Bloomberg’s presidential campaign. Today, The Verge reported that Facebook will allow the memes for political…

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Facebook, VR

Facebook has Acquired Scape Technologies

TechCrunch reported that Facebook has acquired Scape Technologies. The company was founded in 2016 and is located in Shoreditch, London. Scape Technologies is building a cloud-based Vision Engine that allows camera devices to understand their environment, using computer vision. Rather…

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Facebook

Thief Stole Payroll Data of Facebook Employees

Facebook has a history of not being very good at protecting user’s data. This time, things are a bit different. Bloomberg reported that a thief stole payroll data for thousands of Facebook employees. The unexpected thing is that the thief…

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Facebook

Facebook Complied with Singapore’s “Fake News” Law

Facebook issued a “fake news” notice on a post made by The States Times Review at the request of the Singapore government. According to the BBC, Facebook said it “is legally required to tell you that the Singapore government says…

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