Category: Tech

New York (CNN)Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, says it has evidence the Belarusian KGB used fake accounts to pose as journalists and activists to stoke tensions about the crisis at the border between Belarus and Poland. “These fictitious personas posted criticism of Poland in English, Polish, and Kurdish, including pictures and videos about…

London (CNN Business)Google (GOOGL) will ban political advertising on its platforms in the Philippines as the country prepares for elections in May.The company said on Wednesday that it will stop ads running “during an election campaign period or a silence period” in the run-up to the vote. Google considers election ads as any paid posts…

London (CNN Business)Twitter has updated its privacy policy so that it can remove images of people that have been posted without their consent, the company said in a blog post Tuesday.Under its current policy, the social media giant prohibits the publication of people’s private information, including addresses, phone numbers, identity documents and medical records. Now,…

(CNN Business)Facebook will no longer limit users from searching for or praising Kyle Rittenhouse, following a court’s acquittal of all charges facing the teenager at the center of a deadly shooting in Kenosha, Wisc., last August. Though Facebook (FB) will continue to remove posts that glorify the deaths involved in the Kenosha shooting, users will…

(CNN Business)David Marcus, the executive in charge of the troubled cryptocurrency project at Meta Platforms — the company formerly known as Facebook — announced Tuesday he will step down at the end of the year to pursue other projects. Marcus, who previously was the president of PayPal, joined Facebook seven years ago to oversee the…

(CNN Business)Parag Agrawal isn’t a household name, but he could soon become one as he takes the lead at one of the world’s most influential social media companies. On Monday, Twitter (TWTR) CEO Jack Dorsey announced he was stepping down and named Agrawal, the company’s chief technology officer, as his replacement. Agrawal will have his…

San Jose, California (CNN Business)Elizabeth Holmes, flushed and holding back tears, testified Monday that she left Stanford to launch Theranos in part because she had been raped, and said she later entered into what she alleged was an abusive relationship with the person who would become her startup’s chief operating officer.In an emotional moment during…

London (CNN Business)Regulators have long threatened to break up Facebook (now called Meta) because of its huge market power. Now one group of officials has followed through and ordered the company to unwind its acquisition of Giphy because the deal could hurt competitors. The UK Competition and Markets Authority said on Tuesday that Meta’s control…

(CNN)Jack Dorsey, the cofounder and public face of Twitter, will step down from his role as CEO, effective immediately, the company announced Monday. Dorsey will remain a member of Twitter’s board until at least next year. Parag Agrawal, Twitter’s chief technology officer, will take over as CEO.”I’ve decided to leave Twitter because I believe the…

(CNN)When people think of artificial intelligence, the images that often come to mind are of the sinister robots that populate the worlds of “The Terminator,” “i, Robot,” “Westworld,” and “Blade Runner.” For many years, fiction has told us that AI is often used for evil rather than for good.But what we may not usually associate…