By basic principle; if you reap massive profits by using others news content, you should pay for it COMMENT | HAARIS MATEEN, HARIS TABAKOVIC & PATRICK HOLDER | It’s the same story around the world. Faced with an avalanche of misinformation and disinformation online, declining trust in media and government, and …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The right-to-information activists have challenged the Government to respect citizen’s right access to information and restore Facebook, one of the online social networking services owned by American technology giant, Meta Platforms. It follows a ban on Facebook imposed by President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni in January …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Parliament imposed a tax on companies reporting losses for more than seven years with 50% of the losses carried forward now being subject to tax in new amendments to the Income Tax Act. During the House sitting on Tuesday, 11 July 2023, Members of Parliament …
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San Francisco, U.S. | Xinhua | Meta announced on Wednesday that the company would restore former U.S. President Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts in the coming weeks, ending a two-year suspension. “In the event that Mr. Trump posts further violating content, the content will be removed and he will …
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Dublin, Ireland | Xinhua | Facebook parent company Meta Ireland has been fined a total of 390 million euros (413 million U.S. dollars) for breaches of European Union (EU) data protection rules, the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) said on Wednesday. The DPC handed out two fines to Meta Platforms Ireland Limited. …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT & URN | President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has urged elected leaders across the country to play their role of defending the rights of citizens. He called on them to stand up and resist excesses of the security forces especially in regards to human right violations. …
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Its behavior contradicts its pledge to be mindful of how bad actors could abuse its platforms COMMENT | AZRU GEYBULLA | On January 29, 2018, the prominent Berlin-based Azerbaijani news site Meydan TV had its Facebook page hacked for the first time. The attackers removed all admin accounts, deleted all …
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San Fransisico, U.S. | Xinhua | Meta Platforms Inc., the parent company of Facebook, said on Wednesday that it would lay off 13 percent of its staff, or more than 11,000 employees. The mass layoffs result from a sharp reduction of the company’s value amid a crumbling advertising market and decades-high …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Jailed city lawyer Male Mabirizi is negotiating with the Uganda Prisons Services to take him to the East African Court of Justice in Arusha, Tanzania for the hearing of his case challenging the decision to shut down the internet and Facebook during the 2021 general elections, …
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Moscow, Russia | Xinhua | A Moscow court ruled on Monday to ban Facebook and Instagram in Russia, labeling the parent company of the two social networks Meta Platforms Inc. “extremist.” The Prosecutor General’s Office of Russia said that the lawsuit was aimed at protecting Russians from “a violation of their …
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