BARBARA ORTUTAY

August 15, 2018 at 8:28 am

After Alex Jones timeout, Twitter CEO mulls deeper changes

NEW YORK (AP) — A day after Twitter gave right-wing conspiratorialist Alex Jones a weeklong timeout, CEO Jack Dorsey is mulling deeper changes to the... Updated 12:54 am

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August 10, 2018 at 7:11 am

Tech giants still stumbling in the social world they created

NEW YORK (AP) — Who knew connecting the world could get so complicated? Perhaps some of technology's brightest minds should have seen that coming. Social...

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August 6, 2018 at 5:58 am

Major tech companies remove Alex Jones for hate, bullying

NEW YORK (AP) — Major tech companies have begun to ban right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones from their services, reflecting a more aggressive enforcement of...

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July 31, 2018 at 9:52 am

Facebook finds ‘sophisticated’ efforts to disrupt elections

The company said it removed 32 accounts from Facebook and Instagram because they were involved in “coordinated” political behavior and appeared to be fake. Nearly...

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July 27, 2018 at 9:02 pm

To repair reputation, Twitter, Facebook incur investor wrath

NEW YORK (AP) — Two of the biggest social media platforms lost nearly one-fifth of their market value after reporting disappointing user growth. Twitter's stock...

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July 27, 2018 at 12:43 pm

Facebook cleanup: Hurt the stock, help the world?

NEW YORK (AP) — It's been a rough year for Facebook and its investors. Questions of data privacy, fake news proliferation and user growth have...

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July 27, 2018 at 4:35 am

Bad week in social media gets worse; Twitter hammered

Twitter says it’s putting the long-term stability of its platform above user growth. That leaves investors seemingly unable to value what the biggest companies in...

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July 27, 2018 at 12:59 am

Facebook stock plunge: Brief setback or portent of trouble?

NEW YORK (AP) — Thursday's massacre of Facebook shares, which plunged 19 percent in the biggest one-day drop in history, answered one big question. The...

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July 25, 2018 at 1:38 pm

Facebook’s day of reckoning: Blip or sign of broader turn?

NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook faced a day of reckoning Thursday as its shares plunged in the biggest one-day drop in stock-market history. The 19...

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July 23, 2018 at 9:43 am

No, Twitter will not ban Trump, here’s why

NEW YORK (AP) — Calls to ban Donald Trump from Twitter are at least as old as his presidency. But it's not going to happen,...

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