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GOOGLE TO LIFT BAN: Advertisers will be able to buy political ads with the search giant starting Wednesday for the first time since Jan. 13, when a ban was implemented a week after the deadly insurrection at the Capitol.
“We will continue to rigorously enforce our ads policies, which strictly prohibit demonstrably false information that could significantly undermine trust in elections or the democratic process,” a spokesperson told The Hill.
Google had previously used its “sensitive events” policy to freeze advertising for the five weeks directly following the general election.
DHS ZEROS IN ON CYBER: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Monday announced a range of steps it will take to bolster the nation’s cybersecurity posture, including increasing funding for key cybersecurity issues.
Facebook pages associated with seven Uganda-based news websites were removed for engaging in coordinated inauthentic behaviour on 8 January, six days before the country’s presidential elections. Journalists, editors, and founders of the websites were included in the large network that Facebook linked to the Ministry of Information and Communications Technology’s Government Citizen Interaction Centre (GCIC). In total, the corresponding Facebook pages of the seven websites had more than 119,000 total followers.
Two of the linked websites, gorillanationug.com and pfu.co.ug, were inaccessible. Five of the other websites –
The Niles Wires,
, Kampala Times, Kampala Post, and
The Ugandan – presented as news websites. Three of these websites copied content directly from the official website of the governing party, National Resistance Movement (NRM), presenting the content as news. Opinion pieces that were vehemently anti-opposition leader Bobi Wine were also lifted, without at
Clubhouse, an emerging social media platform born during the coronavirus-driven lockdowns, has given users a chance to connect through intimate audio conversations with virtual strangers even while isolated at home.But as the platform continues to grow, the same model that has allowed users to connect while physically apart is raising concerns about how the app will handle the spread of misinformation.Unlike traditional social media platforms,.
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