Facebook on Friday said it has dismantled seven separate networks of fake accounts and pages on its platform that were active in Iran, Afghanistan, Egypt, Turkey, Morocco, Myanmar, Georgia, and Ukraine due to "coordinated inauthentic behaviour".
At least nine popular YouTube channels were promoting on Thursday debunked accusations about voting fraud in the U.S. presidential race, conspiratorial content that could jeopardize advertising and memberships revenue they get from the video service.
Facebook Inc's WhatsApp will start its payments service in India on Friday, the messaging app said in a blog post, after it received approval from the country's leading payments processor to roll out the much-delayed system.
One of two Muslims allowed to run for the ruling party in Buddhist-majority Myanmar's general election on Sunday, Sithu Maung, worries fake news on Facebook could damage his chances.
At least nine popular YouTube channels were promoting on Thursday debunked accusations about voting fraud in the U.S. presidential race, conspiratorial content that could jeopardize advertising and memberships revenue they get from the video service.
Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) announced today that WhatsApp, its popular text and voice messaging app, will launch a new feature in the coming weeks that can be set to automatically delete conversations after a week. The feature will be off by default, but once the disappearing-messages
In this week's episode of Motley Fool Money: Earnings-palooza! Chris Hill is joined by Motley Fool analysts Jason Moser, Ron Gross, and Andy Cross to bring you the latest news headlines and earnings reports from Wall Street. They've got some trillion-dollar companies' earnings re
Shoppers searching Google for cosmetics will be able to try them on virtually through a deal with L'Oreal, as the French group looks to make up for lost store sales caused by coronavirus lockdowns by expanding online.
WhatsApp has received approval to roll out its payments service in India starting with 20 million users, the country's flagship payments processor said on Thursday, giving the Facebook-owned app an entry into a crowded digital payments space.
Europe's telecoms industry on Thursday slammed proposed tweaks to planned EU rules governing Facebook's WhatsApp and Microsoft unit Skype that would tighten the rules faced by telecoms providers to use electronic communications metadata.
A public Facebook group pushing false claims about voter fraud and Democrats trying to "steal" the U.S. election rapidly swelled to more than 325,000 members on Thursday, a day after it was created.
In the backdrop of a pandemic, Flutter Entertainment plc (OTC: PDYP.Y)(LSE: FLTR) has shown resilience. Flutter is a global operator of online casinos and sports betting websites, including FanDuel, Betfair, Poker Stars, and Sky Betting. The company continues to produce good fina
U.S. stock index futures jumped on Thursday as investors were optimistic that a potential gridlock in Washington could reduce the chance of major policy changes, although concerns remained about the risk of a contested presidential election.
HONG KONG (Reuters Breakingviews) - China’s technology industry is facing an Ant-sized problem. An abrupt regulatory halt to the fintech company’s $37 billion initial public offering speaks to Beijing's waning tolerance for th
U.S. stock market futures were marginally higher late on Wednesday as the presidential election race remained cloudy and the likelihood of gridlock in Congress made investors optimistic that major policy changes would be difficult to enact.
What happenedShares of Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) leaped 8.3% on Wednesday, as investors breathed a sigh of relief that the results of U.S. elections would lessen the risk of regulation on the social media industry.
The election between Donald Trump and Joe Biden has remained far closer than many polls predicted. Uncertainty often has a detrimental impact on the market, but the opposite is occurring now. The Dow was up over 700 points mid-day. The surge began last night, when a spike in futu
Hundreds of millions of Americans are watching election results trickle in without any firm sense of who will win the presidency. But investors in the stocks that make up the Nasdaq Composite (NASDAQINDEX: ^IXIC) have already received the news they wanted to hear, and the key sto
LONDON (Reuters Breakingviews) - The U.S. election non-result is burnishing Big Tech’s safe-haven credentials. Stocks like Facebook rose after the inconclusive early vote counts, outperforming other sectors. Like