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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg faces Congressional grilling on Libra

In a hearing with plenty of criticism aimed at Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg, Kentucky Republican Andy Barr lodged a defense of the company’s attempt at innovation in financial services. He said: Criticism is cheap. Anybody can criticize. As you can see here

October 23, 2019

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PayPal first company to drop out of Facebook cryptocurrency Libra

PayPal has become the first company to pull out of an alliance that is trying to launch Facebook’s digital currency Libra. PayPal announced in a statement on Friday afternoon but did not specify what had prompted the decision. Libra and its digital

October 5, 2019

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Samuel L. Jackson’s voice coming to Amazon Alexa devices

Amazon has announced that its virtual assistant Alexa will soon be able to mimic the voice of the actor Samuel L Jackson among other celebrities. The Hollywood star is the first celebrity voice to be rolled out on Alexa, in a feature

September 26, 2019

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Facebook teams up with police to stop streaming of terror attacks

Facebook on Tuesday teamed up with the London police as part of an increased effort to thwart live-streams of terror attacks such as the New Zealand mosque massacre. A self-professed white supremacist used a head-mounted camera in March to broadcast live footage

September 18, 2019

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Facebook Paid Contractors to transcribe users’ audio messages without permission

Facebook has become the latest tech giant to face scrutiny over its handling of users’ data, following a report that said the social media giant been paying hundreds of contractors to listen to and transcribe users’ private audio chats, some of which

August 14, 2019

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Microsoft’s GitHub confirms it has blocked developers in Iran, Syria and Crimea

The impact of United States trade restrictions is trickling down to the developer community. GitHub, the world’s largest host of source code, is preventing users in Iran, Syria, Crimea and potentially other sanctioned nations from accessing portions of the service, chief executive of

July 29, 2019

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US regulators approve £4bn Facebook fine over privacy issues

US regulators approved a roughly 4 billion settlement with Facebook Inc this week over its investigation into the social media company’s handling of user data, a source familiar with the situation said on Friday. The FTC has been investigating allegations that Facebook inappropriately

July 13, 2019

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Trump blasts Bitcoin, Facebook’s Libra says they should be ‘subject to all banking regulations’

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday (Jul 11) criticised Bitcoin, Facebook’s proposed Libra digital coin and other cryptocurrencies and demanded that companies seek a banking charter and make themselves subject to U.S. and global regulations if they wanted to “become a bank.”

July 12, 2019

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Trump accuses social media companies of ‘terrible bias’ at White House Social Media Summit

United States President Donald Trump denounced the world’s top social media companies for “terrible bias” and accused them without evidence of manipulating his content during a summit at the White House on Thursday. “You have a lot of power and you have

July 12, 2019

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Twitter goes down amid White House social media summit

United States PresidentTrump’s favorite social media platform has stopped working even as he was hosting a White House meeting about deplatforming and other forms of online censorship. The cause of the outage is unknown. “We are currently investigating issues people are having

July 11, 2019

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg faces Congressional grilling on Libra

PayPal first company to drop out of Facebook cryptocurrency Libra

Samuel L. Jackson’s voice coming to Amazon Alexa devices

Facebook teams up with police to stop streaming of terror attacks

Facebook Paid Contractors to transcribe users’ audio messages without permission

Microsoft’s GitHub confirms it has blocked developers in Iran, Syria and Crimea

US regulators approve £4bn Facebook fine over privacy issues

Trump blasts Bitcoin, Facebook’s Libra says they should be ‘subject to all banking regulations’

Trump accuses social media companies of ‘terrible bias’ at White House Social Media Summit

Twitter goes down amid White House social media summit

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