Image copyright Twitter Image caption The president’s tweet is now annotated with a warning about the edited video Twitter has labelled a video tweeted by US President Donald Trump as having “manipulated media” for the first time. The video shows a black child running away from a white child while playing, with a fake CNN […]
(Reuters) — Facebook said on Thursday it took down posts and ads run by the re-election campaign of U.S. President Donald Trump for violating its policy against organized hate. The ads showed a red inverted triangle, a symbol the Nazis used to identify political prisoners, with text asking Facebook users to sign a petition against
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“Racist baby probably a Trump voter,” the headline then says in a subsequent screen. The video then cuts to the original clip of the children hugging, and then cuts to the message “America is not the problem. Fake news is.” The label is the latest flash point in an increasingly contentious debate over tech companies’
OAKLAND, Calif. — Twitter added a warning to a post from President Trump about a racist baby on Thursday, saying it contained manipulated media designed to mislead people. Mr. Trump’s tweet, which he posted earlier on Thursday, featured a video of two toddlers running down a sidewalk. The video had been altered to appear as
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Prosecutors even successfully argued before a federal magistrate in Texas over the weekend that a drug possession suspect with alleged boogaloo ties should be denied bond because Facebook and Instagram posts advocating violence against National Guard members and threatening to kill looters showed he was a “threat to the community.” Boogaloo is more of a
State-backed hackers from Iran and China recently targeted the presidential campaigns of Republican President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden, a Google threat analyst said on Thursday. The revelation is the latest evidence of foreign governments attempting to gain intelligence on US politicians and potentially disrupt or meddle in their election campaigns. An Iran-backed group
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Troubled times seem all the more troubling when any discussion of political issues quickly leads to arguments, name calling, shunning or the dreaded exile of cancel culture. Too often controversial events that demand connection and discourse raise passions that make any kind of communication seemingly impossible. A new social media app looks to remove the
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A new executive order from President Trump may affect every blog, recipe site, review site, eCommerce site, and online forum that publishes user-generated content. The executive order specifically mentions Facebook and Twitter. But the scope of the order includes all websites that publish user-generated content that is moderated. According to the text published by the
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The dramatic reductions in human activity because of COVID-19 coronavirus restrictions can be traced to all types of changes. NASA has documented reductions in air pollution, and an article in Nature reports that seismic noise, humming in the Earth’s crust, has decreased. When I posted that article on my public Facebook page, my colleague John
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Like everyone else, I am watching the Coronavirus. It has become a world-wide threat and governments are scrambling for a response. The Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention released a summary of its cases this week. Some of the jarring fatality rate numbers summarized in a JAMA Network article include: 2.3% Overall 14.8% age
