Facebook tests the introduction of advertising in the Messenger communication service, and the first simulations will take place in the following weeks in Thailand and Australia, write theverge.com and engadget.com. Announced a year ago on the social networks, this form of advertising has the role to make the users to interact more easily with the known brands on the messenger … [Read more...]
Bill Gates and other investors create 1 billion dollar fund for the green energy
Cofounder of Microsoft, Bill Gates, together with other investors, launched on Monday a 1 billion dollar fund for the finding and the development of environmentally friendly technology solutions to the problem of energy efficiency, with the objective of stopping the global warming, one year after the agreement in Paris, according to a material published by Reuters. Bill Gates … [Read more...]
Twitter, Microsoft, Facebook and YouTube will share information with terrorists
The companies Twitter, Microsoft, Facebook and You Tube announced a partnership at the global level in order to facilitate the faster identification of the content with terrorist character from the messages posted on their platforms and to prevent the spread of these messages, transmits France Presse, which takes a common announcement made on the site of each of the concerned … [Read more...]
Facebook mistakenly deletes Mark Zuckerberg’s posts
More posts of Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of the social media network Facebook, among which two messages about the spreading of fake news on Facebook and about their role in the US presidential elections were deleted, by mistake, on Tuesday, from the social network, reports the DPA. The posts returned to Facebook the same day and the company announced that their deletion was … [Read more...]
Twitter suspended the account of its founder, Jack Dorsey
The social network Twitter suspended for a short time, on Tuesday night, the account of its owner and founder , Jack Dorsey, who invoked 'an internal error', reports the AFP. For about fifteen minutes, the users who attempted to access the jack's tweets, the user name of Jack Dorsey, saw a message that specifies that this account has been suspended. Contacted by the AFP to … [Read more...]
The fake news were more successful on Facebook than the real ones before the presidential elections
The false information about the elections attracted more attention on Facebook than the authentic articles during the first three months of the presidential campaign from America, according to a recent analysis made by the internet site BuzzFeed News. BuzzFeed calculated that the 20 articles coming from websites dedicated to 'jokes' and from the extremely biased sites … [Read more...]
Facebook and Google announce measures for stopping the false news spreading
Alphabet Inc's Google and Facebook Inc. announced some measures whose goal is to stop the spreading of fake news on the Internet, aiming the business model through which the false content providers make money: the advertising. The two technology giants will restrict the publication of advertisements on the fake news websites. This is the last reaction to the accusations that … [Read more...]
Facebook to allow shocking images to be shown
The social media network Facebook's announced that will allow the publishing of the images and of the potentially shocking content if it represents an interest from the informative point of view, relaxing the regulations considered too rough. The vice-presidents Justin Osofsky and Joel Kaplan posted on the company's blog that Facebook will allow the elements that people find … [Read more...]