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The move puts the social network squarely on the side of Myanmar’s pro-democracy movement after years of criticism over how the military has used the site.

The agreement means users and publishers in Australia can once again share links to news articles, after Facebook had blocked the practice last week.

With Australia moving to make the tech companies pay for news, Facebook took a hard line, while Google has struck deals to pay publishers.

The decision is in response to a proposed law in the country that would require tech companies to pay publishers for linking to stories across their platforms.

The decision is in response to a proposed law in the country that would require tech companies to pay publishers for linking to stories across their platforms.

Pathbreaking legislation showed that even a small nation can get the tech giant to bend. But the United States seems unlikely to follow.

News feeds will start getting less political content in Canada, Brazil and Indonesia, the social network said, with the change reaching the U.S. in coming weeks.

The move, which applies to anti-vaccine posts unrelated to Covid as well, targets unpaid posts to the site and particularly Facebook pages and groups.

A covert online push to sway telecommunications policy in favor of the Chinese company may presage a new twist in social manipulation.

The big tech platforms are facing a challenge unlike any other as Australia moves to make them pay for news.

Mr. Trump became a celebrity through television, but Twitter had given him a singular outlet for expressing himself as he is, unfiltered by the norms of the presidency.

Wednesday was a dark moment in American history. We look at the forces that led us here.

The site focuses on service journalism for North Carolina’s largest city. Now it has been scooped up in a deal valued at nearly $5 million and will be a partial model for other cities.

Election-related falsehoods have subsided, but misleading claims about the coronavirus vaccines are surging — often spread by the same people.

The step goes beyond what the social network previously did on vaccine falsehoods by taking down the false claims entirely.

Excessive screen time can be harmful to our well-being, but we can free ourselves from tech’s hooks with goals, rules and boundaries.

Employees and executives are battling over how to reduce misinformation and hate speech without hurting the company’s bottom line.