The representative of the election headquarters of the President of the United States Donald trump has accused the company of Facebook in bias after the social network removed the video from the page of trump because of false allegations of coronavirus, reports the edition Hill.
Earlier, Facebook decided to fight the spread of false information on the new coronavirus, and delete content with fakes, I removed the video from the page of trump. Video contains a snippet of an interview with an American leader Fox News channel, where he stated that children are "virtually immune to COVID-19".
The American company Facebook removed the video from the US President's account of Donald trump, which contains false allegations of coronavirus, reports NBC News.
Earlier Facebook has said it will fight the spread of false information on the new coronavirus and promised to remove the content from false statements or conspiracy theories.
Ukrainian Internet portal StopFake hired by the social network Facebook to check posts for accuracy this year, faced accusations of links with the ultra-right and bias, reports the New York Times.
Earlier in the Ukrainian media appeared information about the connections project, StopFake with the far right. Edition Zaborona this month published an article containing photos that one of the main participants StopFake meets with Ukrainian nationalists, including neo-Nazi musical group, known for its song, which denies the Holocaust. After the publication one of the authors of the publications Ekaterina Sergatskova received threats and was forced to leave Ukraine.
Social networks Twitter and Facebook has deleted the accounts 16 the allies of Brazilian President Zaira Bolsonaro suspected of spreading false news.
Earlier a court in Brazil has demanded to block the accounts and threatened to impose on the company a daily fine in the amount of 20 thousand reais (about 3.8 thousand dollars) in case of default.
Company Facebook intends to check whether the existing social networks algorithms can lead to discrimination on racial grounds and to remedy these defects, according to the Wall Steet Journal, citing individuals familiar with the situation.
The team, which will deal with issues of "equality and inclusion", was created in the company owned by Facebook and her Instagram app. As the newspaper notes, the experts intend to check algorithms, in particular, machine learning systems, affect national minorities.
A member of the Duma Committee on information policy Anton Burners proposed to discuss at the UN and the OSCE, the issue of censorship and the imposition of the ideology of "American tolerance" on Facebook and Twitter.
Earlier Thursday, the portal Motherboard published screenshots of the internal system of the service Twitter. They depict applied to each user filters, for example, whether his account has been suspended, permanently suspended, or has protected status.
Russia was among the so-called "yellow" zone – according to the decision of the Hungarian epidemiological authorities, reported on the official page in Facebook of the Embassy of this country in Russia. This means that from July 15, 2020, the Russians (unlike the citizens of the States "red" zone) will be able to travel to Hungary, but subject to certain conditions. The path to this European country is open to those who provide proof of negative tests for the presence of coronavirus.
In epidemiological measures, introduced in connection with COVID-19, 15 July 2020 rules of entry to Hungary will change.
The management of the company Facebook is considering a ban on placement of political advertising on the social network before the US presidential elections in November this year, reports Bloomberg, citing sources.
According to the Agency, the possible ban is still under discussion. On the one hand, it can protect users from election-related content, which can be misleading. However, the administration of Facebook, there are concerns that the ban on advertising may have a negative impact on the campaign to ensure the attendance or restrict the ability of candidates to respond to the latest news or new information.
Company Facebook said Wednesday that eliminated network accounts allegedly relating to the President of Brazil Jaira Bolsonaro, including his two sons.
Under liquidation for "coordinated inauthentic behavior" were 35 personal accounts in Facebook, 14 pages, 1 group and 38 accounts in Instagram. From closed accounts in Facebook was 883 thousand subscribers, more 917 thousand were found in accounts in Instagram.
Company Facebook said Wednesday that eliminated network accounts linked to convicted Roger stone, a friend and former informal adviser to Donald trump.
More than 100 pages associated with stone and active with elections in 2016, was removed for "coordinated inauthentic activities."
Several human rights organizations are urged to continue advertising boycott Facebook after meeting with company executives, which showed the lack of real action to combat hate and misinformation on the platform, said in a statement the head of the nongovernmental organization Free Press Jessica Gonzalez.
Earlier, the national Association for the advancement of colored people (NAACP), the ACLU, Color of Change, the human rights organization anti-defamation League of the USA (ADL) and other human rights activists have urged the business to discontinue to advertise on Facebook in July, to protest over "publications with hatred, violence and racism." After that, the company North Face, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Unilever, Starbucks, Volkswagen and SAP said that they would not advertise with Facebook and some other social networks.
The Board of rabbis of Europe (CPE) supported a boycott of Facebook global brands due to the fact that the social network, in their opinion, idle in relation to the propagation and incitement of hatred, reported RIA Novosti in the press service WED.
Some of the largest brands in the world, including Coca-Cola, Adidas, Ford, Unilever, and others, have announced a boycott of Facebook because of the inaction of social networks in the dissemination and incitement to hatred. Their protest of the Corporation expressed by abandoning paid advertising on the platform. To join the campaign and Jewish organizations from Europe and the United States, in particular, the anti-defamation League (ADL American Jewish non-governmental human rights organization) and the rabbinical Council of Europe (CPE).
Company Facebook on Tuesday announced the closure of hundreds of accounts, groups and pages associated with right-wing extremists involved in the riots in the United States.
According to the company, we are talking about right-wing Boogaloo movement, whose activists have shown themselves during a mass protest recently.
The Adidas company with its subsidiary Reebok, as well as the auto giant Ford and several other companies joined the boycott Facebook, halting advertising in its social networks, told television channel CNBC.
According to him, until the end of July to suspend advertising in Facebook and Instagram of Adidas and Reebok, which announced its intention to develop criteria that will make both themselves and their partners "responsible for creating and maintaining a safe environment". Ford in the next 30 days also will not post ads to assess their presence on platforms Facebook.
The experts of the Oxford Internet Institute believe that the Russian media such as RT and Sputnik, along with the Chinese, Iranian and Turkish state media, called social media response, sometimes exceeds the response of the audience is known to European publications.
"During a three-week study, we found that most of the government-sponsored media from China, Iran, Russia and Turkey, generating the content in French, German and Spanish that reach tens of millions of users of social networks worldwide, albeit using less of the distribution system than the major media in these languages
The American company PepsiCo joined the boycott of Facebook, it will no longer advertise on the social network, informs television channel Fox News, citing informed sources.
Earlier, the national Association for the advancement of colored people (NAACP), the organization for the protection of civil rights, Color of Change, the human rights organization "anti-defamation League of the United States" (ADL) and other human rights activists urged the company to cease to advertise on Facebook in July, to protest due to the lack of regulation of such content. On Friday, the company North Face has announced that it will not post to Facebook advertising because "publications with hatred, violence and racism" in the social network. Later, one of the largest U.S. Telecom operator Verizon Communications Inc has joined the boycott, refusing advertising in Facebook and Instagram. A similar statement was made by the company Unilever.
The head of Facebook mark Zuckerberg said Friday that the company will prohibit hate speech in ads on the social network, and will also be tagging posts that may deserve attention or to be valuable to the public interest, but it violates company policy.
In addition, Facebook is expanding a policy to better protect
The Federal Supreme court of Germany on Tuesday ruled that the Federal antitrust Agency (FAV) has the right to prohibit the American company Facebook collecting user data without their consent.
"Facebook uses terms that involve the collection and use of user data that you collect. when the use of Internet is independent from Facebook sites. The Federal anti-monopoly office banned Facebook (in February 2019 - ed.) the processing of such data without the consent of users. The antitrust chamber of the Federal Supreme court today decided that the Federal antitrust Agency may implement such a ban," reads the court's decision.
Social network Facebook will spend $ 200 million to support businesses and organizations that belong to blacks, said in the company blog, chief operating officer of Facebook Sheryl Sandberg.
"The last few weeks has forced us to confront the realities of violence and injustice which are daily confronted members of the black community. We have combined the ideas of various groups of our employees in different teams about how we can better fight racial injustice. We have allocated $ 200 million to support businesses and organizations that belong to the blacks", the statement says Sandberg.
Social network Facebook has removed a publication of the U.S. President Donald trump with the video, which depicts the scene with the black and white kids, due to complaints of copyright infringement, the newspaper Politico, citing a company statement.
Earlier it was reported that trump has posted on their pages in Twitter and Facebook video, which looks like a fragment of a translation of CNN. It shows how the black kid runs away from white. The fragment is accompanied by the caption: "a Scared kid running away from a child racist." Twitter said the video warning sign that the media were "specially processed" and added to the publication that the movie is a version of the viral video, which in September 2019, reported CNN. As noted by the social network, "many journalists confirmed that the video was edited and assembled with "fake" titles CNN".
Facebook and Twitter are not found foreign interference in the protests in the United States, said the representatives of these online platforms in the course of the hearings in the house Committee on intelligence.
Earlier, U.S. attorney General William Barr said on "foreign meddling" in the protests in the US, not accusing any specific country.
The founder of Telegram messenger and social network "Vkontakte" Pavel Durov has accused the company of Facebook and its Instagram in the dissemination of fraudulent ads on his behalf.
According to him, the Corporation "for more than a year earns" the advertising schemes that fraudulently bilking people out of money. The victim of such ads began including the elderly and pensioners, said Durov.
The company has launched a Facebook campaign to raise awareness about the upcoming presidential election in the United States and introduced the possibility of disabling political advertising, said the founder of social network mark Zuckerberg.
"We announce on Wednesday, the largest in American history, campaigns to inform about the vote. Our goal is to help 4 million people to register to vote," wrote Zuckerberg in the material published in the newspaper USA Today.
The headquarters of the democratic candidate for the presidency, Joe Biden has circulated a petition addressed to the social network Facebook, to take action against Donald trump, but received in return only an assurance that the social network will protect freedom of speech.
"I urge you to establish clear rules on everyone, including Donald trump, and prohibiting threatening behavior and the spread of misinformation," reads the petition, which is the headquarters of Biden offers to sign to his supporters.
The American company Facebook from June 4 to mark the beginning of the page of media corporations, which, according to the company, fully or partly under the control of the authorities.
In particular, the social network was given the markings of the Russian Sputnik, RT, RIA Novosti, the Iranian Press TV and the Chinese Xinhua News. While Facebook had not noted such public media as bi-Bi-si and AFP.
The marking of state media on Facebook is a violation of the freedom of information and political censorship, told RIA Novosti the head of the Russian Union of journalists Vladimir Solovyov.
It was reported that the American company Facebook starting June 4, to mark the pages of the media corporations that are wholly or partly under the control of the authorities. The social network will assign the markings of the Russian Sputnik, the Iranian Press TV and the Chinese Xinhua News. The initial labeling on the website will receive 200 pages. Thus, as stated by the head of cyber security policy of Nathaniel Gleicher, Facebook does not flag the American media, "because even the state media in the country have editorial independence."
Official Facebook checker Fatabyyano marked RT Deutsch post in social networks about the building of a hospital in Ufa as false, reported by the chief editor of the channel Margarita Simonyan.
RT published a Facebook post with a video about the construction of the Ufa hospital for infectious diseases for the treatment of coronavirus-infected patients, but later the record was marked as false.
Facebook has blocked pages and accounts associated with the far-right group, the participants of which discussed the delivery of weapons to the protests in the United States, reports CNN TV channel with reference to the statement of the company's employees.
According to staff, Facebook observed the users associated with a group of American Guard, where he discussed the possibility of delivery of weapons to the protests, which began after the death of the African-American George Floyd from the hands of the police.
Employees Facebook staged a virtual protest in connection with the decision of the head of the social network of Mark Zuckerberg to the post of President of the United States Donald trump about the protesters in Minneapolis, the newspaper New York Times.
Earlier, the President of the United States wrote that can direct to Minneapolis soldiers of the National guard, if the mayor will not take control of the situation with the riots after the death of the African-American George Floyd at the hands of the police. The President said that "or very weak radical left mayor Jacob Frey will take action and take control of the town," or he would send the city the National guard and "make it right". Trump also wrote that "we take (the situation) under control, but when the looting starts, the shooting starts". Later on the social network Twitter has marked the message trump as violating the rules of the company about the glorification of violence. Tweet trump on Twitter is hidden, it can only be read by clicking on the administration website.
The head of Facebook mark Zuckerberg explained why his social network had not followed the example of Twitter and did not hide or remove the record of President Donald trump.
Earlier, the President of the United States wrote that can direct to Minneapolis soldiers of the National guard, if the mayor will not take control of the situation with the riots after the death of the African-American George Floyd at the hands of the police. The President said that "or very weak radical left mayor Jacob Frey will take action and take control of the town," or he would send the city the National guard and "make it right". Trump also wrote that "we take (the situation) under control, but when the looting starts, the shooting starts". Later on the social network Twitter has marked the message trump as violating the rules of the company about the glorification of violence. Tweet trump on Twitter is hidden, it can only be read by clicking on the administration website.
