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Musk's X sues media nonprofit over portrayal of site as full of anti-Semitism
AFP, Published on 21/11/2023
» SAN FRANCISCO - Elon Musk's X Corp. on Monday sued nonprofit Media Matters for driving advertisers away from the platform formerly known as Twitter by portraying it as rife with anti-Semitic content.
Meta maps way to 'kill' online deception campaigns
AFP, Published on 17/03/2023
» SAN FRANCISCO: Meta on Thursday released a framework for exposing and combating malicious online campaigns from election lies to terrorist recruitment.
TikTok stars boycott Amazon in activism push
AFP, Published on 24/08/2022
» PARIS: TikTok influencers boasting collectively more than 51 million followers say they won't work with Amazon until the e-commerce colossus delivers key concessions to workers and halts anti-union efforts.
Facebook shuts down anti-vaccine influencer campaign
AFP, Published on 11/08/2021
» SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook on Tuesday said it shut down a disinformation operation which sought to spread Covid-19 vaccine hoaxes by duping social media influencers into backing false claims.
Twitter service restored following global platform outage
AFP, Published on 16/10/2020
» SAN FRANCISCO: Twitter was restored Thursday evening after a technical problem caused a global outage of nearly two hours on the social media platform used by hundreds of millions worldwide.
Porn video interrupts US court hearing for accused Twitter hacker
AFP, Published on 06/08/2020
» MIAMI - A court hearing held via Zoom for a US teenager accused of masterminding a stunning hack of Twitter was interrupted Wednesday with rap music and porn, a newspaper reported.
Suspected US teen mastermind pleads not guilty to Twitter hack
AFP, Published on 05/08/2020
» WASHINGTON - The suspected teenage mastermind of a huge Twitter hack pled not guilty Tuesday to allegations he hijacked celebrity accounts to swindle people out of more than $100,000 in a cryptocurrency scheme.