Twitter said Monday it plans to put labels and warning messages on some tweets that contain disputed or misleading information related to Covid-19, even if it's tweeted by President Donald Trump.
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As states across the country begin to reopen, a growing number of big tech companies are telling employees they can continue to work from home until the fall or even through the end of the year.
Despite pledges from the big social media companies to remove dangerous coronavirus misinformation, from false causes to false cures, Silicon Valley and fact-checkers around the world are struggling to stem the flow of false claims about the pandemic.
Kingsoft Cloud, one of China's top cloud services providers, is expected to make its Wall Street debut Friday even as markets are roiled by the coronavirus pandemic. US investors are also wary of Chinese companies following a high profile scandal involving one of last year's marquee IPOs.
US investment firm Vista Equity is pumping about $1.5 billion into Jio Platforms, the digital technology arm of Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani's sprawling conglomerate Reliance Industries.
Lyft said Thursday it will soon require drivers and riders to wear face masks or face coverings when using its platform, days after its rival Uber confirmed plans to do the same.
As the economic crisis caused by coronavirus unfolded, some investors braced for painful first quarter corporate earnings. But in the tech sector, most companies' results indicted resilience despite the massive disruption.
Nearly 18 months after announcing an independent board designed to hold it more accountable in content moderation decisions, Facebook has revealed the first members.
Last month, Zoom joined a long list of companies whose user data has fallen prey to hackers. More than half a million account logins for the hugely popular video conferencing platform were discovered on the dark web, either offered for free or for next to nothing.
