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Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg took pains to distance his company from Twitter and its fight with U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday, as the White House moved to scrap a law protecting social media companies. Republican Trump, who accuses social media firms of bias against conservatives, without evidence, stepped up his attacks on Twitter after the company put a fact-checking label on two of his tweets about mail-in ballots on Tuesday for the first time. "We have a different policy I think than Twitter on this," Zuckerberg told Fox News, Trump's preferred broadcaster. Both sites take down content that violates their terms of service, but Facebook's approach, he said, has "distinguished us from some of the other tech companies in terms of being stronger on free expression and giving people a voice." While Facebook does apply labels to misleading posts, it exempts from review posts by politicians, a decision that some lawmakers and presumptive Democratic presidential … [Read more...] about Mark Zuckerberg distances Facebook from Twitter in Trump fight

The company is more inclined in trying to make sure that content posted on Facebook comes from real people, so it will now verify the identities of high-profile Facebook page owners in the US. Specifically, it will prioritize extensive ID verification for accounts with a large audience that exhibit a "pattern of inauthentic behavior" and whose content goes viral on a regular basis. … [Read more...] about Facebook doesn’t want to be an “arbiter of truth,” but will verify the identities of people behind popular Pages

While Ustwo is best known for the success of the Monument Valley series, the developer has been known to experiment with other platforms as well. That includes the VR puzzle game Land’s End and, more recently, Apple Arcade launch title Assemble With Care, which has since been ported to Steam. … [Read more...] about Monument Valley studio Ustwo just launched a new game on Facebook

This is the third new app to have been released by Facebook’s NPE team this week. On Wednesday, the R&D group launched Collab, a TikTok-inspired app designed to help with music collaboration. There’s also Catchup, a voice calling app designed to coordinate group calls. … [Read more...] about Facebook’s latest experiment is an attempt to make live TV events more social

CounterPathUCC provider CounterPath is extending its Virtual Meeting Room capabilities to all of its Bria Solo, Bria Solo Free and Bria Teams users until the end of June. More than 80 global dial-in phone numbers have also been added to support participants who do not have Bria. … [Read more...] about Paid software and services available for free during the pandemic from Microsoft, Facebook and more [updated daily]