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“Fake news” has gone from a hot buzzword popularized during the 2016 presidential campaign to an ever-present phenomenon known more formally as misinformation or disinformation.Whatever you call it, sowing FUD — fear, uncertainty and doubt…

Giraffes seem to stand above everything. Like two-story ascetics, they float over the savannah and peer out at the turmoil behind their long eyelashes. For decades, many biologists thought that giraffes extended this treatment to their…

WASHINGTON — President Biden unleashed his growing frustration with social media on Friday, saying that platforms like Facebook were “killing people” by allowing disinformation about the coronavirus vaccine to spread online.Mr. Biden’s…

Many Americans felt socially isolated during the pandemic, cut off from friends and family while crouching and keeping their distance to protect themselves from infection.However, new research released Thursday suggests that even as the…

Starting this fall, the decade-long spat between Apple and Facebook will start a new chapter. And this part of the story has Apple encroaching on Facebook's territory in ways it never has before.On Monday, Apple revealed several new social…

When the country was hit by pandemic lockdowns in the spring of 2020, there were concerns that the booming podcast business might take a hiatus - the dramatic drop in commuters meant fewer people were listening along the way. The number of…

The Associated Press has launched a review of its social media guidelines after more than 150 employees publicly condemned the firing of a young journalist for violating these guidelines.In a memo to global newsrooms Monday, the AP's top…

WASHINGTON - Florida became the first state on Monday to regulate how companies like Facebook, YouTube and Twitter moderate online speech by fining social media companies that permanently bans political candidates in the state.The bill,…

A healthcare worker wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) looks after a Covid-19 patient at a Covid-19 care center set up in the Shehnai Banquet Hall and at Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital (LNJP ), one of the largest COVID-19…

In a 28-second video posted on Twitter this week by a spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Palestinian militants appeared to be launching rocket attacks on Israelis from densely populated civilian areas in the Gaza…