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Mar 19, 2023
Have you seen photos of former president Donald Trump getting arrested? They're fake. Or, at least they were at the time of this writing on Sunday afternoon. Images purporting to show Trump getting arrested have gone viral on social media platforms like Twitter.
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Mar 19, 2023
If you're a reporter reaching out to Twitter's PR department, you'll now be greeted with an automated response in the form of a poop emoji.
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Mar 18, 2023
Elon Musk, the billionaire CEO of several companies, claims Donald Trump will win the 2024 presidential election if the former president is indicted.
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Mar 18, 2023
Elon Musk, the billionaire CEO of several companies, claims Donald Trump will win the 2024 presidential election if the former president is indicted.
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Mar 18, 2023
If there is one thing that could save social media, it's candor.
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Mar 17, 2023
Twitter and Facebook have become echo chambers for espousing political views - and where there is all too often an absence of civility for those with differing opinions
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Mar 17, 2023
YouTube lifted a ban on Donald Trump on Friday, allowing the former president to post new content on the video sharing site. Trump had been banned from posting new videos on the platform after he directed a failed coup attempt at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.
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Mar 16, 2023
TikTok officials have expressed disappointment with the UK's decision.
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Mar 16, 2023
A member of Fares' management team confirmed that they had "successfully trimmed" some of the footage of the singer in blackface from the video for her hit international single "Goumi."
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Mar 16, 2023
Federal regulators recently threatened to ban TikTok in the United States if its China-based owners don't sell their stake in the company, multiple news outlets reported Wednesday evening.
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Mar 16, 2023
Months before the U.S. government demanded ByteDance divest from TikTok, the Department Of Justice's Criminal Division subpoenaed the app's Chinese parent company, according to a source.
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Mar 15, 2023
The track, which is currently the #4 music video on YouTube, has also been seen more than 303 million times since it debuted just two months ago.
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Mar 14, 2023
It's the beginning of the end for all social media.
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Mar 12, 2023
Lyons says it is because we are all too talkative, and I tend to agree.
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Mar 12, 2023
TikTok has released its new Bold Glamour filter that can remodel your face in an unreal way that looks very real. And it's already garnered real interest.
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Mar 10, 2023
"It completely dropped," says Hessel Broekstra, speaking about his YouTube ad revenue. "To get into numbers, I was hitting $100 days and it dropped down to like $6 days. So that is over 90% decrease, which is crazy."
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Mar 10, 2023
YouTube has said it will review videos from creators who had their monetization affected by the November changes
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Mar 09, 2023
Twitter's adjusted earnings reportedly fell about 40 percent year-over-year following an advertiser exodus that occurred when Musk took it private.
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Mar 09, 2023
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew is pursuing closed-door meetings with several of the House lawmakers he must answer to at a hearing later this month.
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Mar 09, 2023
As pressure mounts on TikTok over concerns that it may be sharing user data with the Chinese government, the company has launched a new data security regime for protecting user information across Europe.
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Mar 09, 2023
The overwhelming majority of white supremacist propaganda—80%—was distributed by Texas-based right-wing extremist group Patriot Front, ADL said.
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Mar 08, 2023
Even as many in the government are now warning of the threat TikTok presents that likely isn't a concern to influencers and marketers who have come to rely on the platform.
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Mar 08, 2023
Musk suggested a fired Twitter worker, who has muscular dystrophy, did not need requested disability accommodations and did "no actual work."
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Mar 07, 2023
Elon Musk walked back criticism of a Twitter employee on Tuesday after suggesting the man, who uses a wheelchair, was faking his disability and insisted he didn't do any real work. Musk apologized via tweet and suggested he got bad information, though didn't explain who supplied the info.
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Mar 07, 2023
The creation of the "X/Twitter" everything app remains Musk's end goal for his head-scratching $44 billion purchase of the social media company, the world's second-richest person told Morgan Stanley on Tuesday.
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Mar 07, 2023
News broke on Monday that Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney was producing a new film about Elon Musk. And even though the movie is reportedly not completed yet, the billionaire already has an opinion on the project.
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Mar 06, 2023
The series was actually noted for featuring live performances of music acts, considered unusual since most TV appearances of the era typically included performers lip-synching to prerecorded music.
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Mar 06, 2023
Jimmy "MrBeast" Donaldson asked his fans to clean up the supermarket displays of his chocolate bars, sparking controversy online.
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Mar 06, 2023
The Twitter app, however, appears to be mostly functioning still, though with some errors.
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Mar 06, 2023
Google and Bing received more than a million 'right to be forgotten' requests between 2015 and 2021, with cases rising dramatically during the pandemic.
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Mar 05, 2023
Have you noticed a deluge of advertisements on Twitter lately touting scam cryptocurrencies that use Elon Musk's face? You're not alone. Last week, I reported on the paid ads that fraudulently use Musk and his companies to shill garbage crypto. And it seems the problem is only getting worse.
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Mar 05, 2023
When we say "screen time" to them, they roll their eyes.
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Mar 03, 2023
Most of us know the the gut-wrenching grief of romantic heart-break, but friendship breakups can be even more painful and complex.
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Mar 02, 2023
After years of essentially being "free," social media platforms are starting to offer subscription add-ons, including verified accounts and access to greater security.
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Mar 02, 2023
In a trend one VC calls "Harvard meets Hollywood,'' investors and entrepreneurs are embracing the idea that education should be entertaining and delivered in small bites.
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Mar 01, 2023
Just a day after the White House gave all federal agencies 30 days to remove the social media video-sharing app TikTok from all government devices, the European Parliament voted to ban the Chinese-produced app from staff devices.
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Mar 01, 2023
Big social is making a collective push to direct user payments as an alternative to ad-focused monetization. But TikTok is way ahead of everyone else ...
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Mar 01, 2023
Big social is making a collective push to direct user payments as an alternative to ad-focused monetization. But TikTok is way ahead of everyone else ...
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Mar 01, 2023
Teens can enter a password to continue watching beyond the automatically set one hour limit, and the feature can be disabled entirely.
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Mar 01, 2023
In a first for the medical profession, doctors seeking to keep their licenses and expertise up to date can complete the credits they need through one of the most popular social media platforms on the planet.
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Feb 28, 2023
Twitter has been swamped in recent years with crypto scammers using Elon Musk's image to swindle unsuspecting investors. But over the past week, I've noticed a new tactic the scammers are using on Twitter: They're buying paid ads.
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Feb 28, 2023
Twitter has been swamped in recent years with crypto scammers using Elon Musk's image to swindle unsuspecting investors. But over the past week, I've noticed a new tactic the scammers are using on Twitter: They're buying paid ads.
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Feb 28, 2023
A bipartisan group of US Senators and Members of Congress introduced a bill that would make significant reforms to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.
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Feb 28, 2023
A bipartisan group of US Senators and Members of Congress introduced a bill that would make significant reforms to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.
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Feb 28, 2023
There is more to life than work, no matter how much you are paid.
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Feb 28, 2023
Bipartisan senators Marsha Blackburn and Jon Ossoff have unveiled legislation to place more onus on social media companies when it comes to reporting illegal content of kids and teens.
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Feb 27, 2023
Owners of some Google Pixel smartphones are reporting that certain YouTube videos are causing their devices to crash.
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Feb 27, 2023
Owners of some Google Pixel smartphones are reporting that certain YouTube videos are causing their devices to crash.
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Feb 27, 2023
Google is bringing powerful new Google Photos features to a wider range of Android and iOS devices.
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Feb 27, 2023
Google is bringing powerful new Google Photos features to a wider range of Android and iOS devices.
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Feb 27, 2023
Elon Musk accused American media of being "racist" against white and Asian people over the weekend, a dubious claim that's the billionaire's latest shot levied against the media following his $44 billion takeover of Twitter.
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Feb 27, 2023
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children has launched a Meta-backed platform to help kids and teens get naked or sexual content of themselves removed from social media.
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Feb 26, 2023
Twitter CEO Elon Musk called the media "racist" in several tweets on Sunday in a strange reaction to the news that the country's biggest newspapers were dropping the Dilbert comic strip.
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Feb 25, 2023
Have you seen that viral video on Facebook and Twitter, purporting to show a newscast about the war in Ukraine, but one of the "dead" people in a body bag starts moving? It's fake.
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Feb 25, 2023
Any normal person can tell the Lia chatbot on Twitter is not real.
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Feb 24, 2023
Almost once a day or more, a request comes in by text to authenticate my account, even though I'm not trying to login.
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Feb 24, 2023
Following recommendations from the Facebook Oversight Board, Meta is overhauling its system for implementing penalties for policy violations.
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Feb 23, 2023
Anything even slightly controversial will have its fair share of detractors.
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Feb 23, 2023
Russia is successfully continuing its online disinformation campaigns, with hundreds of professionally-produced videos making their way on to YouTube, a new report reveals.
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Feb 23, 2023
The EU executive's decision follows similar bans in the U.S., where officials worry Beijing will use the app to spy on American citizens.
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Feb 22, 2023
The U.S. Copyright Office has ruled that illustrations in a new comic book that were created with the AI program Midjourney are not protected by copyright law, according to a letter issued by the Copyright Office.
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Feb 22, 2023
As the case study of someone who has successfully turned their passion into their paycheck, Nitsan Raiter is teaching other aspiring entrepreneurs how to do the same with her successful Mind Your Business course and planner. Get inspired by her story.
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Feb 22, 2023
I doubt I would ever pay extra for something like this, especially since it's such a status symbol.
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Feb 22, 2023
Google is being brought before the Supreme Court in a case that could upend Big Tech's immunity from its content moderation approach
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Feb 21, 2023
Former President Donald Trump denied ever calling Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) "Meatball Ron" in a social media post Saturday, refuting claims and reports that Trump had insulted DeSantis' appearance by calling him various nicknames in private.
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Feb 21, 2023
Former President Donald Trump responded Monday morning to former UN Ambassador and 2024 Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley's repeated calls for politicians over the age of 75 to take a cognitive test.
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Feb 21, 2023
A tweet about how Mac McClung won the NBA slam dunk competition shows how much pose Curry has.
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Feb 21, 2023
It's announced Facebook and Instagram, which have active user bases of 2.9bn and 2bn respectively, will now have a paid-for service called Meta Verified.
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Feb 20, 2023
Many Twitter users became confused on Monday night after it was revealed that liking a tweet critical of Tesla resulted in a strange warning on the social media platform. Users immediately started to speculate the warning was there because Elon Musk recently became the CEO of Twitter.
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Feb 20, 2023
Over the last decade, apps like Twitter have allowed anyone to post their true feelings, to share ideas and viewpoints with a large audience.
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Feb 20, 2023
The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, and the Rolling Stones have yet to see any of their music videos surpass a billion views
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Feb 19, 2023
I'm always a little surprised when the trolls emerge from their cave and start making ridiculous comments on Twitter.
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Feb 19, 2023
A video posted by a Ukrainian solider to Tiktok reveals the terrifying reality of trench warfare in a shell-scarred battlefield at close range. Using a GoPro camera, he recorded five uninterrupted minutes of combat frantically defending his trench from assaulting Russian infantry and armor.
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Feb 19, 2023
A video posted by a Ukrainian solider to TikTok reveals the terrifying reality of trench warfare in a shell-scarred battlefield at close range. Using a GoPro camera, he recorded five uninterrupted minutes of combat frantically defending his trench from assaulting Russian infantry and armor.
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Feb 19, 2023
Meta plans to launch a new blue badge for verified accounts on Facebook and Instagram this week, according to a new announcement from CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
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Feb 18, 2023
Microsoft announced it was placing new limits on its Bing chatbot following a week of users reporting some extremely disturbing conversations with the new AI tool.
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Feb 17, 2023
Social media feeds have been inundated with photos and videos of content creators in giant red boots made by art collective MSCHF.
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Feb 17, 2023
Children who are exposed to food advertising are more likely to consume high-calorie, low-nutrient foods and beverages, which can contribute to obesity and other health problems
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Feb 16, 2023
On Wednesday, former President Donald Trump responded to Nikki Haley's entry into the 2024 Republican presidential primary.
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Feb 16, 2023
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down from her role at the company after 9 years, according to a note sent to YouTube employees Thursday morning and published online.
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Feb 16, 2023
Disinformation is used to influence voters and elections. It is used by foreign nations and fed to fake social media accounts by hired guns to persuade voters and sway elections. We need laws to protect voters from disinformation.
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Feb 15, 2023
Twitter CEO Elon Musk on Wednesday said he expects to have a new person in place to lead the social media company by the end of 2023, nearly two months after Twitter users voted in favor of him stepping down in a poll shared by the billionaire.
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Feb 15, 2023
Elon Musk says he'll probably step down as the CEO of Twitter after he finds someone to take the role by the end of 2023. But don't hold your breath.
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Feb 14, 2023
The singer has used social media to build her brand, and now has 107.8 million followers on Twitter and millions more on other social media platforms.
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Feb 14, 2023
This small update could save important photos from accidental deletion
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Feb 14, 2023
This small update could save important photos from accidental deletion
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Feb 14, 2023
Puma is revving up its web3 roadmap for its 75 anniversary year. Chief brand officer Adam Petrick talks strategy
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Feb 13, 2023
Musk confirmed Monday night that he unblocked everyone he's ever blocked over the years. And it likely has something to do with Musk's recent frustration that he wasn't getting enough engagement on the service that he paid $44 billion to own.
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Feb 13, 2023
Romance scams are thriving online. Companies and agencies who monitor these kinds of scams expect numbers to tick up around Valentine's Day, since those looking to make a connection can also appear to be easy marks.
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Feb 13, 2023
The European Commission has given the green light to a new telco joint venture that aims to develop a new digital advertising platform with privacy baked in Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefonica, and Vodafone Group would each take a 25 per cent stake on the new company, to be based in Belgium.
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Feb 11, 2023
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, laid off about 11,000 workers back in November, roughly 13% of its staff and the largest layoffs in the company's history. But the pain isn't over, with more job cuts expected soon.
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Feb 11, 2023
Elon Musk, the CEO of Twitter who's reportedly struggled with engagement on his social media platform, personally asked Twitter users to like a car ad for Hyundai on Friday.
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Feb 10, 2023
The popular video-sharing social media app TikTok is already banned from government devices in 30 states
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Feb 10, 2023
Many Twitter accounts that were verified before Elon Musk bought the platform will soon lose the coveted blue checkmarks that were once handed out for free, according to Musk.
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Feb 10, 2023
Twitter has been singled out for criticism by the EU for failing to provide enough information about its efforts to fight disinformation.
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Feb 10, 2023
Reddit says its systems were hacked over the weekend, here's what you need to know.
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Feb 09, 2023
Vicious feuds aren't exactly new in American politics
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Feb 09, 2023
Elon Musk reportedly firing an engineer who gave the billionaire bad news about engagement on the site, according to a new report from Platformer.
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Feb 09, 2023
Donald Trump had his Facebook and Instagram accounts restored on Thursday, despite the fact that the former president orchestrated an attempted coup against the government of the United States on January 6, 2021. Trump has not yet posted to either account.
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Feb 09, 2023
The EU's executive chastised Twitter for not taking its responsibilities to combat misinformation seriously, particularly as Russia is engaged in a "full-blown disinformation war."
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