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Blockbuster Big Tech earnings reports to culminate with Amazon
AFP, Published on 29/04/2021
» SAN FRANCISCO - A week of blockbuster earnings reports from Big Tech is expected to culminate Thursday with Amazon revealing profits from pandemic-revved online shopping and reliance on cloud-hosted services.
French football legend Thierry Henry quits social media over 'toxic' racism, abuse
AFP, Published on 27/03/2021
» PARIS - Former French national team striker Thierry Henry has said he is quitting all social media until platforms do more to tackle racism and harassment, becoming the latest celebrity to scale down their online presence over abuse.
After Facebook, Twitter ban, Trump fans and extremists turn elsewhere
AFP, Published on 23/02/2021
» SAN FRANCISCO: Gab instead of Twitter, MeWe over Facebook, Telegram for messaging and Discord for insiders -- banned from mainstream platforms, US conspiracy and supremacist movements, many of which support Donald Trump, have shifted to networks that are more confidential, and harder to regulate.
Digital warfare: Myanmar's cyber crackdown explained
AFP, Published on 17/02/2021
» Myanmar's military has imposed repeated internet blackouts, blocked some social media sites and drafted a cybersecurity bill as it attempts to grind down resistance to its takeover.
Clubhouse: the wildly popular audio chat app
AFP, Published on 11/02/2021
» SAN FRANCISCO - Clubhouse, the invitation-only audio chat app, exploded in popularity during the coronavirus pandemic when people could not get together person -- but now the once niche platform has far higher goals.
Party over at Clubhouse, the app that had China talking
AFP, Published on 09/02/2021
» BEIJING - The repression of Muslim Uighurs, the Tiananmen Square crackdown, and S&M hook-ups -- nothing was off-limits in the rambunctious, unfiltered chatrooms of Clubhouse, before China's censors silenced the conversation.
Facebook review board in first action overturns four content-removal rulings
AFP, Published on 28/01/2021
» WASHINGTON - Facebook's new oversight board said Thursday in its first rulings that in four of five cases it had considered, the company was wrong to remove controversial posts from the platform.
Apple, Facebook score with pandemic-hit consumers: profits surge
AFP, Published on 28/01/2021
» SAN FRANCISCO - Apple and Facebook on Wednesday delivered stunning gains in profits and revenues over the past quarter, in the latest sign that Big Tech is delivering for pandemic-hit consumers around the world.
Fans trash Twitter's Trump ban - on Twitter
AFP, Published on 10/01/2021
» NEW YORK: Friends, family and advisors to Donald Trump have been bitterly complaining that Twitter's ban of the president after his supporters stormed the US Capitol amounts to an assault on free speech by radical leftists.
Twitter suspends Trump after Capitol violence
AFP, Published on 07/01/2021
» SAN FRANCISCO: Twitter blocked Donald Trump on Wednesday and threatened a permanent ban for breaking platform rules as social media scrambled to respond to violence in the US capital blamed on the outgoing president's repeated claims of election fraud.