WEDNESDAY, Oct. 7, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Facebook chatter from the anti-vaccination movement now frames the issue as one of civil liberties, a new study finds. As a COVID-19 vaccine gets closer to becoming a reality, opposition from so-called anti-vaxxer groups could become a political movement, researchers warn. For the study, the investigators … Read more
NEW DELHI: NewsMobile, a Facebook fact checking partner for India said a project it worked on alongside FakeNetAI, a start up at the University of California (UC) Berkeley to detect deep fakes on social media platforms will be deployed in a beta version during the US elections and will also be useful to check if … Read more
(This story originally appeared in on Sep 13, 2020) NEW DELHI: The country’s two top judges — Chief Justice of India S A Bobde and next in line Justice N V Ramana — on Saturday said judges are often soft targets of vituperative criticism in social media as they are trained to exercise restraint and … Read more
Bailey encouraged others to practice “safe social”. Social media and mental health: While social media was already highly active, the dependency of people on such platforms has increased tremendously during the coronavirus-induced lockdown. Social media has several benefits, in terms of connecting an individual to his long-lost friends and helping him find more people with … Read more
New Delhi: Amid a political slugfest over the Facebook issue, the company’s India head Ajit Mohan on Wednesday appeared before a parliamentary panel, which is discussing alleged misuse of social media platforms. The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology, headed by senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, had called representatives of Facebook to hear their views … Read more
Zhang Yiming was having breakfast at home in Beijing in July when a message popped on his computer screen. A friend sent a link featuring President Trump, in which he said the coronavirus came from China and, as part of a U.S. response, he might ban TikTok, the hit video app Mr. Zhang founded. Mr. … Read more
By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter MONDAY, Aug. 3, 2020 (HealthDay News) — The coronavirus pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement have prompted some Americans to take a break from social media, new research finds. The national survey by Ohio State Wexner Medical Center of 2,000 people found that 56% changed their social media habits … Read more
CNN — Just because it’s on the internet doesn’t make it true. It seems so simple, but if everyone knew that, Facebook and Google wouldn’t have to pull bogus news sites from their advertising algorithms and people wouldn’t breathlessly share stories that claim Donald Trump is a secret lizard person or Hillary Clinton is an … Read more
Istanbul CNN — Turkey’s Red Crescent organization has been criticized by lawmakers and citizens after revelations that it sold tents to a charity instead of donating them to people in urgent need after the massive earthquake that claimed more than 44,000 lives earlier this month. While people were begging the government for shelters to sleep … Read more