Facebook Pulls Down 'Interested in Pseudoscience' Ad Category With Over 78 Million Users
The pseudoscience category is an especially bad look for Facebook, which has long failed in its efforts to prevent its platform from becoming a vehicle for conspiracy theories and has claimed to be cracking down on advertisers seeking to profit off of misinformation during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Top analyst says Apple will use cheaper iPhone battery technology to offset cost of adding 5G
Last year Apple surprised many by beefing up the capacities of the batteries used with the iPhone 11 line. However, a new report issued by TF International analyst Ming-Chi Kuo contains some interesting news. More precisely, Kuo says that Apple could cut 40% to 50% off of the average unit cost of the batteries needed for this year's handsets.
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Facebook takes down Trump’s post about the immunity of kids and coronavirus
Facebook took down a video President Trump posted to his account Wednesday, citing its rules against false claims about the coronavirus. The post in question was a video clip from a Fox News segment from Wednesday morning in which the president makes the unsubstantiated claim that children are “almost immune” to COVID-19
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The US plans a crackdown on the Chinese technology companies
The US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo said in a statement that Chinese apps like TikTok and WeChat pose "significant threats to the personal data of American citizens". Wednesday's announcement marks a further deterioration in relations between Washington and Beijing. President Donald Trump hinted at a potential ban on apps like TikTok in order to safeguard the security of American users
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Tencent adds $200 billion this year, now bigger than Facebook
China’s gaming and social media giant Tencent is now more valuable than Facebook, Tencent’s market capitalization has surpassed Facebook’s following a huge rally in the Chinese firm’s shares this year. The total value of publicly traded shares of the Chinese gaming and social media giant that owns WeChat stood at $664.50 billion at around 3:07 p.m. Singapore time. Meanwhile, Facebook’s market cap totaled $656.15 billion as of Tuesday’s close
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