Facebook hired the AI team of a UK startup to combat fake news

By Aqsa Khunshan ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Facebook announced on 3rd July that it has hired the team behind the startup Bloomsbury AI to cope with fake news shared on the social…

Facebook & Twitter introduce new ad transparency tools

By Aqsa Khunshan ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Facebook and Twitter have announced some big changes in order to ensure advertisement transparency on their respective platforms. Facebook and Twitter have announced some big…

Facebook adopts fact-checking and machine learning to fight fake news

By Asra Rizwan ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Facebook has announced the expansion of its fact-checking program and adoption of machine learning to combat fake news. In the days that followed Cambridge Analytica…

Facebook to integrate WhatsApp functionality, rumours say

WhatsApp is testing update to alert users from forwarding spam messages

By Sajeel Syed ⏐ 8 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

WhatsApp, the most widely used messaging service around the world is planning to curtail spammy content. WhatsApp is not quite popular for updating its app,…

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Google to take action against websites spreading fake news

By Basit Anwar ⏐ 8 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

The Internet giant Google has been facing allegations of promoting fake news coming from Russia to influence the US presidential elections. Google has now taken…

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