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Facebook hides ‘likes’ in Australia trial to ease anxiety
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Facebook hides ‘likes’ in Australia trial to ease anxiety

Facebook has begun hiding the number of “likes” for posts in Australia, it said Friday, a trial designed to ease…
Gouna Film Festival signs content development protocol with Facebook
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Gouna Film Festival signs content development protocol with Facebook

The Gouna Film Festival’s (GFF) administration on Wednesday signed a cooperation protocol with the Facebook company to use Facebook and…
Facebook exempts political speech from fact-checking
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Facebook exempts political speech from fact-checking

Facebook will not fact-check the statements politicians post to the site, the social network announced Tuesday ahead of the US…
Tech giants beef up body to fight extremist content
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Tech giants beef up body to fight extremist content

Social media companies led by Facebook said Monday they were ramping up an industry body that aims to weed out…
400 mn Facebook users’ phone numbers exposed in privacy lapse: reports
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400 mn Facebook users’ phone numbers exposed in privacy lapse: reports

Phone numbers linked to more than 400 million Facebook accounts were listed online in the latest privacy lapse for the…
Banned at home but thriving abroad: China’s social media campaign
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Banned at home but thriving abroad: China’s social media campaign

More than 78 million Facebook users follow the page of the state-run China Daily, where they are served a diet…
Twitter, Facebook accuse China of HK discord campaign
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Twitter, Facebook accuse China of HK discord campaign

Twitter and Facebook have accused the Chinese government of backing a social media campaign to discredit Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement…
Vietnam’s ‘homespun Facebook’ swamped after launch
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Vietnam’s ‘homespun Facebook’ swamped after launch

A homegrown Vietnamese social media app was overloaded with users hours after launching as the one-party state tries to boost…
Facebook’s Libra currency under fire
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Facebook’s Libra currency under fire

Facebook’s planned virtual unit Libra, already under heavy attack from US President Donald Trump and global regulators, faces skepticism among…
Selfies and the self: what they say about us and society
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Selfies and the self: what they say about us and society

The selfie craze speaks volumes about the era in which we live: how images race around the globe and can…
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