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Facebook Fight Against Fake News Leads to Deeper Media Ties

EghtesadOnline: Facebook Inc., struggling with its growing role as a distributor of news, is embarking on a project that includes stronger partnerships with media companies, greater support for local news and better efforts to educate users to avoid hoaxes.
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Publish Date:12/January/2017 | 06:32
New feature flags articles as `disputed,' but Facebook is trying to avoid the `gray area.'

Facebook Rolls Out Tools to Curb Fake News After Uproar

EghtesadOnline: Facebook Inc. is changing its powerful news feed in an effort to stamp out fake stories following a firestorm around the social network's role in spreading false information.
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Publish Date:17/December/2016 | 07:02
In a lawsuit, shareholders say Andreessen was advising Facebook's CEO when he was supposed to be representing investors.

Facebook 's Investors Criticize Marc Andreessen for Conflict of Interest

EghtesadOnline: Earlier this year, Facebook Inc.'s Mark Zuckerberg came to his shareholders with a big question: would they approve him maintaining voting control of the company, even if he sells most of his stock?
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Publish Date:08/December/2016 | 20:40

EU urges U.S. tech giants to act faster against hate speech

EghtesadOnline: U.S. tech giants including Facebook , Twitter, Google's YouTube and Microsoft will have to act faster to tackle online hate speech or face laws forcing them to do so, the European Commission said on Sunday.
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Publish Date:05/December/2016 | 10:18

ISIS Victim Suit Ties Twitter Ads to Terrorist Propaganda

EghtesadOnline: The family of a woman slain in the 2015 Paris attacks claims in a lawsuit that Twitter Inc., Facebook Inc. and Google profit from targeted advertising linked to terrorist propaganda promoting violence.
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Publish Date:04/December/2016 | 01:01

Facebook builds censorship tool to attain China re-entry: NYT

EghtesadOnline: Facebook Inc has quietly developed a censorship tool that could persuade China to allow the world's biggest social media network to re-enter the world's second largest economy after a seven-year ban, the New York Times reported on Tuesday.
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Publish Date:23/November/2016 | 15:53

Zuckerberg again rejects claims of Facebook impact on U.S. election

EghtesadOnline: Facebook Inc chief executive Mark Zuckerberg again rejected the idea that the social network affected the U.S. presidential election, saying late Saturday it is "extremely unlikely" news hoaxes changed the outcome.
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Publish Date:14/November/2016 | 05:28
Even Zuckerberg's profile page memorialized in glitch

Facebook Temporarily Marks Some Users As Dead

EghtesadOnline: Facebook Inc. temporarily marked many of its users as dead on Friday, in a mysterious snafu the company hasn't yet explained.
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Publish Date:13/November/2016 | 05:10

Facebook to stop ethnicity-based targeting for some ads

EghtesadOnline: Facebook Inc said on Friday it would no longer allow certain advertisers to exclude racial or ethnic groups when placing ads on its service, following criticism that the practice was discriminatory.
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Publish Date:12/November/2016 | 06:20

Facebook takes on LinkedIn with new job opening features

EghtesadOnline: Facebook Inc said on Monday, it was testing a feature that would let page administrators create job postings and receive applications from candidates, a move that could pressure LinkedIn Corp's recruiting business.
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Publish Date:08/November/2016 | 07:22

German prosecutors investigate Facebook over hate postings

EghtesadOnline: German prosecutors are investigating Mark Zuckerberg and other Facebook executives, a spokesman for the Munich prosecutor's office said on Friday, following a complaint alleging the company broke national laws against hate speech and sedition by failing to remove racist postings.
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Publish Date:05/November/2016 | 05:16

Italy antitrust agency probes WhatsApp messaging service

EghtesadOnline: Italy's antitrust watchdog said on Friday it had opened a probe into whether messaging service WhatsApp obliged users to agree to sharing personal data with its parent company Facebook and imposed "unfair" conditions on users.
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Publish Date:29/October/2016 | 05:50

Facebook Told to Stop Exploiting WhatsApp Data During EU Probe

EghtesadOnline: European Union privacy chiefs said Facebook Inc. must stop processing user data from its WhatsApp messaging service while they are investigating the privacy policy changes the company announced in August.
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Publish Date:28/October/2016 | 16:16

Amazon, Facebook Seek Indian Cricket League Streaming Rights

EghtesadOnline: Amazon.com Inc., Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc. have joined a bidding war for rights to stream Indian Premier League cricket matches, seeking to tap into the nation’s growing mobile internet audience.
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Publish Date:19/October/2016 | 10:58

Facebook Rolls Out Workplace Service to Compete With Slack

EghtesadOnline: Facebook Inc. wants you to use Facebook at work -- and make your company pay for access. A new office version of the social network, called Workplace, becomes widely available Monday. It’s meant to help employees collaborate with one another on products, listen to their bosses speak on Facebook Live and post updates on their work in the News Feed.
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Publish Date:10/October/2016 | 18:00

Facebook Launches a Craigslist Competitor, Again

EghtesadOnline: Facebook Inc. is releasing a feature called Marketplace that will let users post items for sale and shop for things to buy, like they can on Craigslist.
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Publish Date:04/October/2016 | 24:21

German lawyer makes hate-speech complaint against Facebook

EghtesadOnline: German prosecutors are again considering whether to press charges against Mark Zuckerberg and other Facebook executives for failing to staunch a tide of racist and threatening posts on the social network during an influx of migrants into Europe.
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Publish Date:01/October/2016 | 05:48
The commercial viability of virtual reality is still uncertain, but analysts are optimistic.

Sony's Games Guru Races Zuckerberg for Lead in Virtual Reality

EghtesadOnline: Shuhei Yoshida has reason to celebrate. The head of Sony Corp.’s games development is six weeks away from the introduction of its first virtual-reality headset and demand seems promising. The $399 headset is sold out at retailers around the world, even though most customers haven’t been able to try it out.
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Publish Date:03/September/2016 | 24:14