Facebook would come with a safe version of Instagram, for children under 13. The information appeared in a blog post, as a result of publishing “a new Parents Guide.” The Child Mind Institute and ConnectSafely involved in the development of the guide. Instagram…
The number of internet crimes in the U.S. increased by over 300,000, according to the complaints, in 2020. FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center mentioned that the losses exceeded $4.2 billion. FBI released its report on internet crimes According to FBI’s 2020…
The CEOs of Google, Facebook and Twitter should appear in front of the Congress, in a hearing about misinformation and disinformation. Sundar Pichai, Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey should testify. Google, Facebook and Twitter, remote The hearing should be held on…
The social media paltform decided to support the early vote in the US elections. Also, Twitter is showing users how to search for their early voting options.
The company announced its decision today. Thus, any US Twitter user will be encouranged to vote early. Also, the…
YouTube bans videos that claim to present COVID-19 vaccines, according to the Google’s video platform. This is part of the giant’s effort to stop misinformation about the pandemic.
So, Google’s video platform mentioned it would remove any videos that…
The US authorities blocked 92 government domains that spread propaganda and fake news, from Iran. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) were in control of those domains.
According to the The Department of Justice (DoJ), IRGC used these domains in order to…
Facebook threatens it might leave Europe due to the GDPR regulations regarding data transfers, imposed by The Irish Data Protection Commission. Thus, the preliminary order asked the company to stop the data transfer about its EU users back to the USA.
Concerns about the…
Australian users might use Google free services only as… paid services, the company announced. These would include everything, even the search results.
This is the result of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s (ACCC) ruling that the company…
Sundar Pichai, the CEO for Google and Alphabet, announced the “Digitization Fund” plan for India. Thus, the company will invest $10bn in partnerships, ecosystem, operations and infrastructure.
In his post, Pichai emphasized that the company intends to create “new…
For mishandling user information, Canada’s Competition Bureau established a new fine for Facebook. The Bureau decided a penalty of 6.5 million USD. This is far smaller than the one that international regulators decided in the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The decision…
