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There is a direct correlation between children underperforming in school and their access to reliable broadband Internet, explains Alan DiCicco, Solutions Marketing Senior Director at Calix.
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By AFP
Berlin -
Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg was forced to defend herself in a Twitter spat with German railway service Deutsche Bahn (DB) on Sunday.
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By AFP
San Francisco -
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey is funding research aimed at changing the way information circulates on social media -- with the goal of combating online violence, hate and disinformation.
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By AFP
San Francisco -
YouTube broadened its anti-harassment policies on Wednesday to include a ban on "implied" threats along with insults based on race, gender identity or sexual orientation.
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By AFP
London -
Artificial Intelligence has spread rapidly across markets in recent years as traders constantly strive to gain the upper hand, while regulators have given a guarded welcome to the cutting-edge technology.
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By AFP
Tunis -
Social networks set alight the months-long protest movement against Algeria's establishment, but as a contentious presidential poll looms, bots and trolls are staging an online comeback to bolster the regime.
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By AFP
London -
At a dingy office space in north London, around 60 Labour activists busied themselves recently with the basics of modern campaigning before next week's general election.
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By AFP
Moscow -
Russia on Friday handed an unusually lenient three-year suspended sentence to a student convicted of making calls for extremism on a video blog condemning President Vladimir Putin.
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By AFP
Moscow -
Russians posted plane emojis and angry comments on Thursday as journalists and TV stars interviewing Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev failed to raise explosive claims over his wife's use of a private jet.
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By AFP
Fpo -
Google has banned political ads in Singapore ahead of elections, an opposition party said Wednesday, sparking accusations the tech giant was "kowtowing" to the tightly-controlled city's government.
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By AFP
Shanghai -
Chinese internet giant Tencent and gaming titan Nintendo on Wednesday announced plans to launch the Japanese company's popular Switch console in China from next week.
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Fake news sites have been around since the early days of the Internet. Yet, it was only in the last few years that people have seen them work on a whole new level.
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By AFP
Nicosia -
Videos showing harrowing scenes of bleeding protesters, burning roadblocks and snipers on rooftops have emerged after Iran lifted a near-total internet blackout, opening a window onto what analysts say was one of Tehran's bloodiest crackdowns.
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By AFP
Apo -
The European Commission said Monday it had begun a "preliminary investigation" into how Facebook and Google collect personal data and what they do with it.
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By AFP
Fpo -
Facebook published a correction on a user's post Saturday following a demand from Singapore, the first time a tech giant has complied with the city-state's law against misinformation.
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By AFP
Frankfurt Am Main -
More than 2,000 Amazon workers in Germany walked off the job as the US online retailer kicked off its "Black Friday" sales bonanza, escalating a long-simmering battle for better pay and working conditions.
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By AFP
Mumbai -
He's no Bollywood star, but school dropout Israil Ansari has found fast fame on TikTok with two million followers glued to his oddball dancing and rainbow hairstyles in India, the app's biggest international market.
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By AFP
Bejing -
The Chinese billionaire behind teen phenomenon TikTok is a 36-year-old tech guru whose eye for youth trends and pioneering use of AI has blasted the app to global success -- while working hand-in-glove with censors to control content within China.
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By AFP
Washington -
The United States said Tuesday it has received nearly 20,000 messages from Iran about protests including photos and videos after appealing to demonstrators to defy restrictions on the internet.
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By AFP
San Francisco -
Google on Monday fired four employees on the grounds they had violated data security policies, but the tech titan was accused of persecuting them for trying to unionize staff.
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By AFP
Washington -
Former Trump National Security Advisor John Bolton said the White House denied him access to his Twitter account after his dismissal in early September, in a series of tweets that signal his return to the social media site.
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By AFP
Washington -
The US Treasury slapped punitive sanctions on Iran's communications minister, Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi, Friday after the Tehran regime blocked internet communications amid violent protests triggered by a petrol price hike.
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By AFP
San Francisco -
Google on Wednesday updated how it handles political ads as online platforms remain under pressure to avoid being used to spread misleading information intended to influence voters.
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By AFP
Seoul -
In a drab government office in Seoul, a team of broadcast regulators spend their days watching online porn -- the front line troops of South Korea's attempts to crack down on spycam videos that mostly expose women.
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By AFP
La Paz -
The resignation of Bolivia's Evo Morales and his replacement by a little known conservative senator has sparked a surge of misleading social media posts.Here's a selection of misinformation debunked by AFP's fact-check service.
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By AFP
Hanoi -
Vietnam sentenced a music teacher to 11 years in prison on Friday for Facebook posts that allegedly undermined the one-party state, which has been accused of tightening the noose on online dissent.
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By AFP
San Francisco -
Facebook on Wednesday said it has taken down some 5.4 billion fake accounts this year in a sign of the persistent battle on social media against manipulation and misinformation.
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By AFP
San Francisco -
Facebook on Wednesday said it has nixed 5.4 billion fake accounts already this year, in a sign of a persistent battle on social media against manipulation and disinformation.
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By AFP
Madrid -
When Spain's King Felipe VI and his 14-year-old daughter arrived at Barcelona airport last weekend, hackers issued a message about their whereabouts, warning protesters of three possible exits.
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By AFP
Apo -
The European Commission fielded questions Friday over a Twitter gaffe by its next foreign policy chief, current Spanish Foreign Minister Josep Borrell, who posted a sensitive extradition-related document from UK authorities on his feed.
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The FDA is considering food recall regulations specific to online retailers. EK Channel
"Tastemaking Through Curated Communities" panel (L-R): Skipper Chong Warson, Julie Anixter, Brad Davis, Shane Rahmani, Kimberly Stone, Duncan Alney
David Michel Davies, Internet Week NY 2012 Co-chair
"Social Media Mixtape: Curating Music" panel (L-R): Mike Caruso, Elias Roman, Dan Zaccagnino, Richard Zelson
Filmmaker Tiffany Shlain addresses the audience at the October 22, 2014 premiere screening in NY at Neuehouse for the new season of "Future Starts Here" series on AOL.
Internxt has announced an ICO to build a "brand new Internet" Pixabay / Pexels
File ohoto: mesh13, Canada's premier digital conference.
Mainstream media losing its viewership. Screen capture from video
An internet user surfing the net on her Blackberry in Lagos, Nigeria
A photo taken at an event called Ladies Learning Code Jon Lim (CC BY 2.0)
A website seized by ICE on Cyber Monday 2012 Screen Capture
An internet comment thread. Curafly, on Flick'r
Internet and television personality Kalen Allen JSquared
Tim Berners-Lee at the TED conference. W. Markowsky
Hosts Persia Tatar of the Social Media Society and Dan Wittmers of the Mobile Leaders Alliance welcome attendees and speakers to the Emerging Media Convergence conference September 12 in New York.
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Two girls try new devices at a smartphone store.
Against internet censorship
Screenshot of North Korea internet page, via Reddit Reddit / Jabberminor
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