Bitter relations spill into the open after China refuses to apologise to Australia for foreign ministry spokesman tweeting fake photo

Bitter relations spill into the open after China refuses to apologise to Australia for foreign ministry spokesman tweeting fake photo
Tech companies must do more to clamp down on fake news, amid a surge of disinformation during the global Coronavirus pandemic, says EU
Social networking giant begins placing labels on political posts by US President Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden
‘We really want to read the information, before you retweet it’ says Twitter, as it seeks to drive ‘informed discussions’
Twitter applies fact-checking alert to a tweet from US President Donald Trump as part of new policy on misleading information
More than a quarter of Coronavirus videos on YouTube contain “misleading or inaccurate information”, a new study has warned
False Covid-19 claims that has seen mobile masts and towers attacked, has resulted in WhatsApp imposing a strict limit on forwarded messages
No, the founder of MoneySavingExpert and well known money saving expert Martin Lewis, is not dead, despite fake adverts to the contrary
Platform makes limited changes to its stance on political adverts, but still refuses to ban ads that are misleading or spread lies
U-turn at Facebook? Social network confirms it will remove some videos modified by artificial intelligence, known as deepfakes
Twitter to take no further action, after it said Tories misled the public when press office changed name during TV debate
European Commission says tech giants must to more to tackle fake news, after submission of self-assessment reports
Social network takes down networks of fake accounts and groups tied to three Middle Eastern governments
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi slams Facebook for failing to take down heavily edited video
Huge number of fake accounts disabled by Facebook over a six month enforcement period
Social network says 97 accounts from Russia were responsible for ‘coordinated inauthentic behaviour’
Warning from European Commission comes ahead of European Parliament elections next month
Rap on the knuckles for big three, as European Commission says firms are not doing enough to tackle fake news
Zuckerberg pays for failing to appear before MPs as influential committee hands out tough recommendations
Facebook limits WhatsApp message forwarding to just five people, down from the previous 20
A new regulatory body is needed to police social media firms’ ‘very disturbing’ use of personal data for political purposes, Elizabeth Denham tells Parliament
Publishes data sets of millions of tweets, images and videos from accounts linked to Russia and Iran
US election clampdown, but meantime in the UK it pledges to make political adverts “transparent”
Facebook is deleting hundreds of American accounts and pages for “inauthentic activity”
Social media giants remove hundreds of accounts linked to propaganda campaigns from Iran and Russia
Dozens of accounts were involved in ‘coordinated inauthentic behaviour’, but Facebook stops short of saying Russia’s to blame
Massacre of the trolls as micro-blogging service shuts down 70 million fake and suspicious accounts
Facebook founder refuses to attend parliament’s Digital, Culture, Media and Sport committee
No evidence the Russians used social media to influence British vote to exit European Union, says Facebook
Heightened sensitivity about political interference on social media results in new rules from Twitter