Major US media outlets shrug off Biden’s stumbles on AF1 steps

Major left-leaning U.S. press outlets are largely avoiding mention of President Joe Biden‘s repeated stumbles as he boarded Air Force One, while many foreign publications are devoting prominent coverage to the incident. As of Friday afternoon, the homepages of MSNBC, CBS News, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and New York Times had no mention of … Read more

Facebook tried to restart negotiations with Australian news outlets a day after shutting down pages

Facebook tried to restart negotiations with Nine and News Corp just a day after banning news on its Australian site. The US social media giant blocked Australian users from seeing and sharing local news last Thursday, in response to a new law to make tech giants pay media companies for news content on their sites. … Read more

Priyanka Chopra explains why she has distanced herself from her social media outlets

Priyanka Chopra explains why she has distanced herself from her social media outlets: ‘I’m definitely a lot more wary now’ By Sam Joseph Semon For Dailymail.com Published: 00:11 GMT, 4 February 2021 | Updated: 00:11 GMT, 4 February 2021 Priyanka Chopra is ‘a lot more careful’ with social media now. The 38-year-old stated in an … Read more

Facebook rolls out restrictions for news outlets with ‘direct meaningful ties’ to political entities

Facebook bans news outlets which are ‘connected to political entities’ from its News tab and forces them to undergo ‘authorization process’ to publish ads about social issues or the election News outlets with ties to political entities became popular in 2018 Facebook is now cracking down on these publishers with a new policy The firm is … Read more

Twitter adds labels to state-controlled media outlets like China Daily and Sputnik

Twitter adds labels to state-controlled media outlets like China Daily and Sputnik in a bid to combat foreign influence and misinformation on its platform Twitter announced it is adding labels to state-controlled media outlets  Labels are applied to accounts from the countries of the UN Security Council This includes China, France, Russian Federation, the UK and … Read more

Starbucks makes face masks mandatory at all company-owned U.S. outlets

Starbucks has announced that customers will have to wear face coverings at all company-owned U.S. stores starting on July 15 to contain the spread of coronavirus. The coffee chain said for certain locations where there was no local government mandate to wear face masks, customers would have other options including drive-through and curbside pickups. The … Read more

Facebook starts labeling state-controlled media outlets and blocks their ability to advertise in US

Facebook starts labeling state-controlled media and blocking their ability to advertise in the US The platform will start labeling new organizations it deems state-controlled Among the designated new outlets are the RT and Sputnik It will also ban those outlets from advertising in the US  By James Pero For Dailymail.com Published: 23:12 BST, 4 June … Read more