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Its adversaries are wily, more adept at camouflaging themselves and apparently aren’t always detectable by Facebook’s much-vaunted AI. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Social media plays whack-a-mole with Russia interference

Facebook revealed this week that it has uncovered and removed 32 apparently fake accounts and pages.

02 Aug 2018 8:42 AM

Facebook has been on the defensive about influence activity on its site.

Facebook has identified new meddling before 2018 US elections

Facebook had removed 32 pages and accounts from Facebook and Instagram, part of an effort to combat foreign meddling in US elections.

01 Aug 2018 7:53 AM

Twitter executives on Wednesday told US lawmakers that it may notify the users about the Russian propaganda. (Photo: AFP)

Twitter to notify users exposed to Russian propaganda during 2016 US elections

Twitter said it would email 677,775 people in US who followed, retweeted or liked content from accounts associated with the IRA during poll.

20 Jan 2018 4:09 PM

Speaking about North Korea, Trump said, 'That should have never been my problem. It should have been a problem solved many years ago when it was much less dangerous. But it was given to me, along with a big mess of other things.' (Photo: AP)

Working with countries like India always a good thing: Donald Trump

US President Donald Trump was responding to a criticism of his desire to improve Washington's relationship with Moscow.

11 Jan 2018 12:37 PM

The 39-year-old has been thinking about the run ever since Donald Trump was elected last November. (Photo: Pixabay)

Adult actress Cherie DeVille may run against Trump in 2020 elections

While DeVille has not officially filed, and says that she won’t until she is convinced there is enough momentum to pursue it seriously.

16 Nov 2017 4:32 PM

Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg (Photo: AP)

Facebook's Sandberg meets lawmakers amid Russia probe

The Senate Intelligence Committee is also holding an open hearing with the three companies that day.

12 Oct 2017 11:48 AM

Facebook, Twitter, Google asked to testify on Russia's interference in US elections

The companies have been invited to appear before the House intelligence committee in October and before the Senate intelligence committee.

28 Sep 2017 10:02 AM

Hillary Clinton apologised to Obama on election night, says book

'You need to concede,' urged Obama, who repeated the message in a follow-up call to Clinton's campaign chairman, John Podesta.

19 Apr 2017 5:10 PM

55 per cent white Americans view Trump's presidency as 'illegitimate'

A poll has found that a majority of young Americans disapprove of US President Trump's performance.

21 Mar 2017 9:34 AM

Eight per cent of Clinton voters and 7 per cent of Trump voters named Facebook as their main source of election news.

Study shows Facebook's growth as campaign news source

Facebook was the top non-television source for election news cited by supporters of both candidates.

19 Jan 2017 8:43 AM

Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner.

Senior White House role for Trump’s son-in-law, Ivanka declines

Ivanka Trump, who was also paid a significant role in Trump’s campaign will not be taking a formal White House position.

10 Jan 2017 8:33 AM

FIIs head home whenever the Fed raises interest rates and this affects the rupee.

Rupee starts to dip again

This was a shock to the rupee which had strengthened between November 28 and December 8, 2016.

24 Dec 2016 12:44 AM

Russian President Vladimir Putin (Photo: AP)

No one ‘except us’ believed Trump would win: Vladimir Putin

Russia and Putin has been accused by Washington of meddling in the US elections but the Kremlin leader broadly dismissed this.

23 Dec 2016 5:04 PM

Putin turned Russia election hacks in Trump's favour: US officials

A senior White House official said that Putin was likely to have been aware of the cyber attacks but he fell short of accusing him.

16 Dec 2016 5:24 PM

US President-elect Donald Trump (Photo: AP)

Donald Trump least popular US president-elect in 2 decades: poll

A Real Clear Politics poll shows that about 50 per cent of Americans hold an unfavourable opinion of Trump.

15 Dec 2016 9:02 PM

US President-elect Donald Trump (Photo: AFP)

Donald Trump questions White House motive over Russian hacking probe

A day earlier the White House said Trump knew before the elections that Russia was behind the hacking.

15 Dec 2016 8:57 PM

Other subject matters shared among Facebook's 1.79 billion users were more sober, with the fourth leading topic the "Black Lives Matter" movement, followed by the election in the Philippines of Rodrigo Duterte.

US election, Diwali, surgical strikes were most 'talked about' in 2016: Facebook

Facebook said it measured leading topics by how frequently an issue was mentioned in posts made between January 1 and November 27.

09 Dec 2016 3:59 PM

US President-elect Donald Trump and Indian-American Nikki Haley, the Governor of South Carolina. (Photo: AP)

Indian-American Nikki Haley to be US ambassador to UN

The move, which will be announced later on Wednesday, comes as Trump advisers are seeking to diversify his ranks.

23 Nov 2016 4:10 PM

The accounts suspended by Twitter, which has been criticized for not stopping abusive behaviour on its platform, include that of Richard Spencer, who has said he wants blacks, Asians, Hispanics and Jews removed from the United States.

Twitter suspends accounts of some alt-right figures

The alt-right movement came to the fore during the US presidential campaign.

17 Nov 2016 7:50 AM

A Facebook statement said that the claims made in the article were ‘not true.’

Facebook declined to deploy tool to weed out fake news: Report

Facebook had a tool to weed out fake news circulating on the social network this year.

15 Nov 2016 7:51 AM

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