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Facebook Takes a Side, Banning Myanmar Military After Coup
The move puts the social network squarely on the side of Myanmar’s pro-democracy movement after years...
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Facebook Strikes Deal to Restore News Sharing in Australia
The agreement means users and publishers in Australia can once again share links to news articles,...
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Facebook Blocks News in Australia, Diverging With Google on Proposed Law
With Australia moving to make the tech companies pay for news, Facebook took a hard line,...
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Facebook restricts the sharing of news in Australia as Google says it will pay some publishers.
The decision is in response to a proposed law in the country that would require tech...
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Facebook restricts the sharing of news on its platform in Australia.
The decision is in response to a proposed law in the country that would require tech...
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Google Is Suddenly Paying for News in Australia. What About Everywhere Else?
Pathbreaking legislation showed that even a small nation can get the tech giant to bend. But...
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Facebook Dials Down the Politics for Users
News feeds will start getting less political content in Canada, Brazil and Indonesia, the social network...
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Facebook says it plans to remove posts with false vaccine claims.
The move, which applies to anti-vaccine posts unrelated to Covid as well, targets unpaid posts to...
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Inside a Pro-Huawei Influence Campaign
A covert online push to sway telecommunications policy in favor of the Chinese company may presage...
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An Australia With No Google? The Bitter Fight Behind a Drastic Threat
The big tech platforms are facing a challenge unlike any other as Australia moves to make...
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Stripped of Twitter, Trump Faces a New Challenge: How to Command Attention
Mr. Trump became a celebrity through television, but Twitter had given him a singular outlet for...
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Trump. Twitter. QAnon. Who’s to Blame for DC Capitol Riot?
Wednesday was a dark moment in American history. We look at the forces that led us...
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Axios Buys Charlotte Agenda, a Digital Start-Up, as Part of Push Into Local News
The site focuses on service journalism for North Carolina’s largest city. Now it has been scooped...
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From Voter Fraud to Vaccine Lies: Misinformation Peddlers Shift Gears
Election-related falsehoods have subsided, but misleading claims about the coronavirus vaccines are surging — often spread...
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How Joe Biden’s Digital Team Tamed the MAGA Internet
The campaign’s empathetic digital strategy held up surprisingly well against President Trump’s passionate digital following.
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Facebook says it will remove coronavirus vaccine misinformation.
The step goes beyond what the social network previously did on vaccine falsehoods by taking down...
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It’s Time for a Digital Detox. (You Know You Need It.)
Excessive screen time can be harmful to our well-being, but we can free ourselves from tech’s...
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Roiled by Election, Facebook Struggles to Balance Civility and Growth
Employees and executives are battling over how to reduce misinformation and hate speech without hurting the...