Life How is Facebook tackling climate misinformation? The social media giant is introducing a completely new feature. 19/02/2021
The Cube Facebook curb content shared by Myanmar military online Facebook has pledged to reduce the distribution of all content on Facebook pages and profiles run by the Myanmar Military “Tatmadaw”, as well as accounts linked to the armed forces spokesperson Brigadier-General Zaw Min Tun. 12/02/2021
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France France resumes tax on tech giants, seeks deal with US The tax brought about €400 million to the French budget last year, but the government agreed to suspend it in 2020, in exchange for an American promise to drop the tariff threat pending talks on an international deal on taxing online companies. 26/11/2020
World ‘Informational chaos’: Proposals made to regulate social media "Lies laced with anger and hate spread faster and further than the boring facts of news," says the Forum on Information & Democracy, which has laid out 250 ways social media companies can be regulated to tackle a growing threat to democracy. 12/11/2020