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Sunday 25 October 2020
Facebook said Dating had been built with “safety, security and privacy at the forefront”.
Facebook vice president of content policy Monika Bickert cautioned that the change will take time.
The case was heard before the High Court today.
Democrats in the US are hoping to rein in the power of the tech giants.
A garda operation targeting these traders was brought in earlier than usual.
Fringe groups are feeding off public frustration and misinformation.
Facebook Ireland also seeks various declarations including that the DPC has acted unlawfully.
The DPC told Facebook this week to stop transferring data belonging to European Union users to the US.
The social media giant said the Data Protection Commission told it the key mechanism it uses to transfer data to the US “cannot in practice be used”.
In the video, Ben Gilroy makes a number of false and misleading claims about coronavirus and suicide in Ireland.
The video-sharing app has said it will ban users that repeatedly try to share the footage on its platform.
The company said Australian legislation would force it to pay arbitrary and theoretically unlimited sums for content.
The page for the “Kenosha Guard” violated Facebook’s policies and had been flagged, Zuckerberg said
The social network also said it took action on fewer pieces of child nudity and sexual exploitation content on Instagram
Facebook removed a post from the president while Twitter blocked a Trump campaign account.
A September deadline looms for the blockbuster acquisition.
The tech giants are being investigated for alleged anti-competitive practices.
Gardaí believe that cosmetics are regularly targeted by thieves as they can easily be resold without attracting too much attention.
The US Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross said his department was “deeply disappointed” by the court ruling.
The ruling on this case could have significant implications for how data is transferred between the EU and the US.
Lawyer Paul Tweed says it’s ‘absurd’ for such companies to claim they are ‘merely a platform, not a publisher’.
Read an extract from Relentless: The Inside Story of the Cork Ladies Footballers by Mary White.
Some of the internet’s biggest advertisers have started to pull their ads from the site.
Unilver, home to brands like Lipton tea, also said it would suspend ads on social media until the end of 2020.
The letter was confirmed as a fake by the UK Cabinet Office.
New figures show the health service spent more than €1 million on advertising in the first two months of the crisis.
The symbol was used to designate political prisoners in concentration camps.
The platform continues to face criticism for not removing or labelling posts by Trump that that spread misinformation.
The Department of Health confirms that the tracing app won’t be made mandatory.
Australia is set to unveil plans to force Facebook and Google to share advertising revenue they earn from news featured in their services.
Claims made in a Facebook post are confirmed to be false by Department of An Taoiseach
In a letter to employees, the Facebook CEO said his decisions not to moderate Trump’s controversial posts caused “anger” and “hurt”.
It appears as though misinformation about Penneys reopening is being deliberately shared in a bid to dupe people.
The number of Instagram posts related to suicide or self-harm Facebook took action against increased by 40%, it said.
Posts speculating about the origin of the virus have been widely shared in recent weeks.
Varadkar said that the social media giants are “sort of free riders on costs incurred by other people”.
The move comes after attempts to negotiate voluntary payments failed.
The photo has been widely shared on social media and messaging services.
Donald Trump has said this combination could be “one of the biggest game changers in the history of medicine”.
WhatsApp has moved to restrict the forwarding of content to just one person in one go.
WE’RE LESS THAN a week out from the scariest night of the year.
Halloween will look somewhat different this year but there’s nothing stopping us breaking out the box of decorations, throwing on a witch’s hat and doing up the outside of the house.
Cobwebs, ghouls and goblins, a scary pumpkin, there’s plenty of inspiration around at the moment as more and more people gear up for the 31st.
This morning, we want to know: Have you decorated your house for Halloween?
Poll Results:
Share your story: voices@thejournal.ie
Richard Nairns details some of what he discovered when he moved to Ned’s Wood in Co Wicklow.
A couple of afternoon showers
Max: 11 °C
Min: 7 °C
Winds subsiding with a couple of showers
Max: 12 °C
Min: 5 °C
Clouds breaking, rain ending; breezy
Max: 11 °C
Min: 6 °C
