Italy fines Meta over data use, account transparency
Rome (AFP) - Italy's competition authority on Wednesday fined global tech giant Meta 3. 5 million euros ($3
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TikTok fails ‘disinformation test’ before EU vote, study shows
Paris (AFP) - Wildly popular social network TikTok approved adverts containing political disinformation ahead of European polls, a report showed ...
Parent company of Trump’s Truth Social posts $328 mln loss
Washington (AFP) - Trump Media and Technology Group, which owns former US president Donald Trump's social media platform Truth Social, ...
Musk confirms Twitter has become X.com
Paris (AFP) - The social network formerly known as Twitter has fully migrated over to X. com, owner Elon Musk ...
Reddit gives OpenAI access to its wealth of posts
San Francisco (AFP) - OpenAI will have access to Reddit data for training its artificial intelligence models and will put ...
GameStop shares soar as ‘Roaring Kitty’ returns
New York (AFP) - Shares in GameStop, the company at the center of the "meme stock" craze that throttled Wall ...
Apple apologizes for iPad ‘Crush’ ad after backlash
San Francisco (AFP) - Apple apologized on Thursday after an ad for its latest-edition iPad caused an uproar for showing ...
Nepalis fight TikTok ban in court, or ignore it entirely
Kathmandu (AFP) - When Nepal suddenly announced a ban on TikTok last year, lawyer Sunil Rajan Singh was determined to ...
TikTok creators fear economic blow of US ban
San Francisco (AFP) - Ayman Chaudhary turned her love for reading into a living on TikTok, posting video snippets about books ...
Snap shares pop after revenue tops expectations
San Francisco (AFP) - Shares in social media company Snap, which runs the youth-focused Snapchat, soared nearly 25 percent on ...
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