
Trump social network expects February 21 launch
Former US president Donald Trump’s media group is aiming to launch its long-promised social network in February, according to a listing at Apple’s App Store.
Former US president Donald Trump’s media group is aiming to launch its long-promised social network in February, according to a listing at Apple’s App Store.
Facebook held back from doing all it could to stop users from being radicalized and US election misinformation from flooding the social network, according to media reports Friday.
Former US president Donald Trump on Wednesday announced plans to launch his own social network, in the latest push to reclaim his internet dominance after he was banned from Twitter and Facebook in the wake of the Capitol insurrection.
Frances Haugen, the former Facebook employee who testified before Congress Tuesday, is sure of her position: that the social network can do just as much harm as good in a hyper-connected world — and that its power must be restrained.
Facebook’s independent Oversight Board announced Tuesday it would start accepting requests to remove “harmful content” that users believe has been wrongly allowed to remain on the leading social network.
Facebook said Wednesday it was revamping its main user feeds to give people more control over what they see on the leading social network, with less reliance on algorithms.
Twitter said it began enforcing new rules Monday aimed at filtering out “hateful” and “abusive” content on the social network including messages which promote or glorify violence.
Facebook on Monday said it will hire more than 1,000 people to thwart deceptive ads crafted to knock elections off course.