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EU Leaders Urge Internet Giants To Fight Online Extremism

EU leaders on Thursday urged Internet firms to do their utmost to combat online extremism promoting attacks or face the...

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EU Orders Facebook and Google To Crack Down On Hate Speech

Facebook, Google and other US internet giants have sharply boosted efforts to clamp down on online hate speech, a top...

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Facebook, Google Crack Down On Hate Speech

Facebook, Google and other US internet giants have sharply boosted efforts to clamp down on online hate speech, a top...

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Macron Vows To Tackle Terrorism By Taking On Tech Companies

French centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron has launched his presidential campaign with a plan to tackle terrorism by...

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US Newspapers Cut More Than Half Their Jobs Since 2001

More than half of the jobs at US newspapers have disappeared since 2001, with a large portion of the losses offset by...

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Google Boycott Could See the End of Automated Ad Placement

The feud sparked by Google's failure to remove extremist content from its site Youtube could lead to the end of...

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Google Ad Boycott Could Aim Ire At Ad-Serving Software

Google's money-making foundation is strong enough to endure a current boycott by advertisers, but the movement could...

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Pakistan Threatens To Block Social Media Over ‘blasphemy’

A Pakistani court has ordered the government to open an investigation into online "blasphemy", threatening to ban...

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YouTube Showing A Billion Hours of Online Video Daily

YouTube on Monday said that a billion hours of video is being watched daily at the Google-owned online viewing venue in...

International

Germany Blocks WhatsApp Data Transfers To Facebook

German data protection authorities on Tuesday said they had blocked Facebook from collecting subscriber data from its...