October 4, 2017 EU orders Amazon to pay 250 million Euros after getting illegal tax benefits After ruling last year that Apple owed a whopping 13 billion to Ireland in back taxes, the European Union on Wednesday morning determined that Amazon received illegal tax benefits as well, this time in Luxembourg.
October 4, 2017 Digital Disaster: Facebook, Google carry fake news on Las Vegas shooting The scourge of fake news has met the carnage of Las Vegas.
October 3, 2017 Las Vegas shooting: Facebook, Google surfaced fake news Fake news quickly surfaced on Facebook and Google’s platforms in the aftermath of Sunday’s massacre in Las Vegas that left 59 people dead and more than 500 injured.
October 3, 2017 More than 10 million people saw the political ads Russia bought on Facebook last year Remember when Facebook was so quick to dismiss the reports saying fake news spreading on the social network may have played a crucial role in last year's presidential election?
October 2, 2017 Facebook works to improve ad transparency after supposed Russian interference in 2016 election Facebook said it would hire 1,000 people to help review and remove ads and make the advertising it sells more transparent after $100,000 in Russian-backed ads were purchased in an attempt to influence the 2016 U.S. Presidential election.
October 2, 2017 Facebook hands over Russia-linked ads to Congress, announces new policies Facebook announced stricter policies Monday for ad buys on the social media mega-platform, as the tech giant handed Congress more than 3,000 ads linked to a Russian entity.
October 2, 2017 Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg asks forgiveness for ways his 'work was used to divide people' Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has asked for forgiveness for the ways his work “was used to divide people rather than bring us together.”
September 29, 2017 Keith Ablow: Is new technology fueling new levels of conflict? McLuhan, who died in 1980, had no idea that new technologies, like the internet and its children, Facebook, Amazon, Apple and Google, would represent an exponential threat of the same kind.
September 29, 2017 Google ordered to delete app used by Catalan separatists Google has been ordered to delete an application that a Spanish court said Catalan separatists were using to spread information about the disputed independence vote this Sunday.
September 29, 2017 Twitter uncovers $274K in ad spending by Russian operatives tied to 2016 election Twitter announced it has uncovered several accounts linked to the same Russian activity on Facebook, as well as $274,000 being spent on ads by a company with ties to the Russian government during the 2016 U.S. Presidential election.
