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MINNEAPOLIS, United States (AFP) — Plaudits poured out for the Philadelphia Eagles on social media on Sunday after they vanquished the mighty New England Patriots 41-33 to win a first Super Bowl title. US President Donald Trump — who has had his differences with the NFL during the season — was quick off the mark after the Eagles, led by upstart backup quarterback Nick Foles after a late-season injury to Carson Wentz, defied the odds to […]
(Eagle News) — A subpoena will be sent to Cocoy Dayao who is behind the blog “Silent No More.” The Senate committee on public information and mass media on Tuesday said also to be summoned were Google and Facebook. Senator Grace Poe made the announcement upon resumption of the panel’s hearings on fake news. Dayao has criticized seven senators through his blog after they refused to sign a resolution condemning supposed extrajudicial killings in the […]
SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) — Facebook said Monday it has decided to deliver more local news to US users, in its latest effort to manage the flow of information on the enormously-influential social network. Earlier this month, Facebook announced it will ask its two billion users to rank their trust in news sources as part of an effort to combat the spread of misinformation. The changes come as the online giant seeks to address […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – Facebook acknowledged Monday that widespread use of social media can be harmful to democracy, while pledging to work to minimize these risks. The world’s biggest social network’s comments were the latest response to persistent criticism for its role in allowing the spread of misinformation, reinforcing “filter bubbles” and facilitating harassment of dissidents and activists. “Now, we’re as determined as ever to fight the negative influences and ensure that our platform is unquestionably a source […]
By: Mark Christofer Manalo I do not spend much time on social media. The utility of sharing personal information and pictures of one’s lunch escape me. But in the few times I checked out Facebook, I was greeted with two blatantly false stories that were passed around as “health news.” And by blatantly false, I mean that in an easily-disproven, just-a-Google-search-away, top-search-results kind of way. The first one had a ring of truth […]
BELFAST, United Kingdom (AFP) — Facebook has settled a legal case involving naked photos posted on the social media platform of a Northern Irish teenager, the lawyer for the victim confirmed to AFP on Wednesday. Pearse McDermott, who has been representing the teenage girl, said they reached a confidential agreement with the US tech titan. “Facebook has agreed to pay the costs of the action,” he said. The girl had sued the company for damages, […]
BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — Germany’s justice minister has fallen victim to the rules he himself championed against online social media, as one of his tweets was deleted following several complaints, Bild daily reported Monday. The tweet dated back to 2010, when Heiko Maas was not yet a minister. In the post, he had called Thilo Sarrazin, a politician who wrote a controversial book on Muslim immigrants, “an idiot.” Maas told Bild on Monday that he […]
by Rob Lever Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON, United States — The US Library of Congress has scaled back plans to archive every message ever sent on Twitter, sparking debate on the importance of social media in historical records. The library, which is believed to be the largest in the world with a mission of preserving important national and global cultural records, announced this week it would stop collecting the entire Twittersphere’s tweets from January 2018. “Effective […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Former US President Barack Obama told Britain’s Prince Harry he was concerned social media was “corroding civil discourse,” in what he said was his first interview since leaving the White House, aired Wednesday. “One of the dangers of the internet is that people can have entirely different realities,” he told the prince, who was guest editing BBC Radio 4’s Today program. “They can be cocooned in information that reinforces their […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Social media titan Facebook will open a new office in London on Monday that is set to be its biggest engineering hub outside America, the company has announced. The investment in the office, near Oxford Street in the heart of the city’s West End district, will also lead to the creation of 800 jobs, more than half of which will be in engineering. The company, which opened its first office […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Viral ngayon sa social media ang video ng pagbiyahe ng Light Rail Transit habang bukas ang isang pinto nito. Sa uploaded video ni Jason Ibe sa kaniyang Facebook account, makikita na tuloy-tuloy lang ang biyahe ng LRT kahit bukas ang pinto sa bahagi ng Vito Cruz Station at Quirino Station, kagabi, Nobyembre 29. Tila relaxed at balewala lang sa ilang pasahero sa harap ng panganib ng nakabukas na pinto ng […]
(Eagle News) — Hinimok ng National Privacy Commission (NPC) ang mga Filipino na protektahan ang kanilang impormasyon sa kanilang mga account sa social media. Ayon sa NPC, bahagi ito ng kampanyang tinatawag na “unfriend day” kung saan hinihimok ang publiko na i-unfriend ang mga taong hindi personal na kilala sa social media. Sinabi ng NPC, ang hakbang na ito ay bilang paglaban sa talamak na “identity theft” o pagnanakaw ng impormasyon o pagkakilanlan ng isang […]
