Thu 27 May 2021: Facebook has announced it will take “stronger” action against users repeatedly sharing misinformation on the social media platform. Facebook will reduce the distribution of all posts in its news feed from a user account if it frequently shares content that has been flagged as false by one of the company’s fact-checking […]
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Wed 26 May 2021: Dozens of Palestinian journalists have had their WhatsApp accounts blocked amid media coverage of recent armed confrontations between Israel and Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip. Journalists from Al Jazeera and the AFP news agency, based in occupied East Jerusalem, the West Bank and besieged Gaza Strip, said they received messages from WhatsApp informing them that their […]
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Tue 25 May 2021: Google today cited its “long history” of managing content according to local laws to assure the Indian government of its continuing efforts to ensure legal compliance. The company was responding to the Centre’s new digital rules, the deadline to implement which ends today. “We respect India’s legislative process and have a […]
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Tue 25 May 2021: Police in India’s capital have served a notice at Twitter’s offices, seeking information for a complaint about why a tweet by the spokesman of the ruling Hindu nationalist party was tagged as “manipulated media”. Leaders of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) last week shared portions of a document […]
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Fri 21 May 2021: Personal data of at least 279 million Indonesians were allegedly leaked and sold on a hacker platform this month, authorities said late Thursday. The Ministry of Communication and Information said in a statement that it is investigating the suspected data leak and its sale on the hacker platform “Raid Forums.” Information […]
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Fri 21 May 2021: Microsoft Corp is pulling the plug on its once omnipresent browser, Internet Explorer, next year as it prepares to battle market leader Chrome with its slicker Edge browser. Launched in 1995, Internet Explorer became the dominant browser for over a decade as it was bundled with Microsoft’s Windows operating system that […]
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Tue 18 May 2021: Turkish defense giant ASELSAN on Tuesday said the flight tests of the micro unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) Saka were successfully carried out. ASELSAN Project Manager Yusuf Ziya Kotil told Anadolu Agency the company is working on unmanned air, land and sea systems. The Saka system with 3-axis gimbal, developed for exploration […]
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Sun 16 May 2021: Facebook-owned messaging app WhatsApp shared a new message regarding its controversial privacy policy “ensuring” that they cannot see personal messages of users and that it will not delete the account as users can accept the new terms whenever they want. The statement came via Twitter on May 15, when the update […]
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Sat 15 May 2021: WhatsApp will not delete accounts and still cannot see users’ personal messages, the popular messaging app pledged Saturday, the day when controversial updates to its privacy policy took effect in some areas. “No, we can’t see your personal messages. No, we won’t delete your account. Yes, you can accept at any […]
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Wed 12 May 2021: A combination of technology and human oversight detected and blocked more than $1.5 billion in sketchy and likely fraudulent transactions on Apple’s App Store in 2020, Apple said in a release. “Apple’s combination of sophisticated technology and human expertise protected customers from more than $1.5 billion in potentially fraudulent transactions, preventing […]
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