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Twitter testing labeling ‘fake news’ with bright orange warnings
Twitter is experimenting with adding bright orange warning labels directly beneath what it deems to be “fake news” according to a leaked demo…
How blockchain will kill fake news
As blockchain’s hype cycle continues to befuddle many about its potential beyond cryptocurrencies, businesses and governments are moving ahead…
Why the Facebook News tab shouldn’t be trusted
Are we really doing this again? After the pivot to video. After Instant Articles. After news was deleted from the News Feed…
CNN looks to take on Apple News+ with new digital news subscription service
Approximately a dozen engineers and other executives are working on the project, CNN digital chief Andrew Morse confirmed…
Apple CEO Tim Cook talks climate change, fake news, and more during speech to students in Italy
Tim Cook has been busy traveling Europe over the last week, and his latest stop is in Italy…
Socials social media companies vow to police ‘truth’
For years, Facebook and other social media companies have erred on the side of lenience in policing their sites…
How to outsmart algorithms and take control of your information diet
Certain algorithms pull you toward the things you already know, believe, or like, and they push away everything else…
Killing fake news: Can Apple News+ save journalism?
Apple has portrayed News+ as an effort to save journalism…
Apple teams with media literacy programs in the U.S. and Europe
Apple today announced a new initiative in support of leading nonprofit organizations…
Apple in 2019 and the future of iPhone
Over the past two decades, Apple has proven capable of exercising its rapidly lithe, innovating ability to take its existing technologies and create new computing forms…
Bloomberg Businessweek should retract or unequivocally prove their Supermicro spy chip yarn
Apple, Amazon, the government, national security advisors, and independent technology experts alike have all said Bloomberg Businessweek is wrong…
Tim Berners-Lee: Facebook and Google may need to be broken up
Silicon Valley technology giants such as Facebook and Google have grown so dominant they may need to be broken up…
Investigating implausible Bloomberg Businessweek’s Supermicro spy chip yarn
Bloomberg Businessweek needs to retract the story and investigate how this passed editorial muster and was published…
AWS CEO joins Tim Cook in urging Bloomberg Businessweek to retract its Chinese spy chip yarn
Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy has joined Apple CEO Tim Cook…
Super Micro to review hardware for malicious chips
Despite the lack of any proof that a malicious hardware chip exists, we are undertaking a complicated and time-consuming review…
Apple CEO Tim Cook: Bloomberg Businessweek should do the right thing and retract its Chinese spy chip story
We turned the company upside down. This did not happen. There’s no truth to this…
NSA security adviser says ‘nobody’s found anything’ on Chinese chips
NSA senior adviser for cybersecurity Rob Joyce tells…
Apple News vs. Google News vs. Microsoft News
Google News has been formed from the ashes both of what was Google News & Weather and of Google Play Newsstand…
NSA Senior Cybersecurity Advisor questions Bloomberg Businessweek’s China iCloud spy chip claim
Rob Joyce, Senior Advisor for Cybersecurity Strategy at the NSA, is the latest official to question…
Before China iCloud spy chip allegations, Bloomberg published these five incorrect stories about Apple
Media personalities have been bending over backward to find a way to square the claims…
Facebook teams with Republicans and Democrats to fight fake news fight, but falsehoods still rampant
Facebook on Wednesday said it would team with two U.S. non-profits to slow the global spread…
Apple bans Alex Jones’ Infowars app for ‘objectionable content’
Apple Inc said on Friday that it had banned from its App Store the Infowars app belonging to popular U.S. conspiracy theorist Alex Jones…
U.S. Senator Warner: Tech regulation is coming, ‘the era of the wild west in social media is coming to an end’
To Sen. Mark Warner, it’s not a question of whether Congress will regulate the tech industry but when…
U.S. Justice Department says probing social media companies for stifling ‘free exchange of ideas’
The Justice Department said on Wednesday that it will meet with state attorneys general to discuss concerns…
Twitter permanently bans Alex Jones and Infowars accounts
Twitter has permanently banned the accounts of right-wing conspiracy theorist and radio host Alex Jones and InfoWars…
White House probes Google after President Trump accuses it of left-wing bias
President Trump on Tuesday accused Google’s search engine of promoting negative news articles and hiding ‘fair media’ coverage of him…
Twitter shares plunge after social network loses 1 million active users
Twitter Inc. shares plunged the most in two years after the social media company said monthly users dropped by 1 million…
The Boston Globe Editorial Board: Break up Google
Never in the history of the world has a single company had so much control over what people know and think…
Apple hiring activity shows a clear mission to get deeper into editorial publishing
There’s a certain air of mystery as to what Apple is up to when it comes to content…
Apple CEO Tim Cook: Russian Facebook ads didn’t elect President Trump
As Washington lawmakers investigate how Russia exploited social media to influence the 2016 presidential election…
Dow Jones spreads fake news story of Google acquiring Apple
The Dow Jones Newswires had a ‘technical error’ which caused the portal to report several spurious…
Desperate Samsung stoops to fake news
Samsung just released a press statement declaring its Galaxy S7 edge…
Apple CEO Cook: ‘Fake news’ is ‘killing people’s minds’
Tim Cook, the boss of Apple, is calling for governments to launch a public information campaign to fight the scourge of fake news…
