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Facebook takes down Trump ads over ‘organised hate’ policy violation
Facebook Inc said on Thursday it took down posts and ads run by the re-election campaign of U.S. President Donald Trump for violating its policy against organized hate. The ads showed a red inverted triangle, a symbol the Nazis used to identify political prisoners, with text asking Facebook users to sign a petition against ... -
China expending great efforts in global scramble COVID-19 vaccine trials
China will strengthen international cooperation in future COVID-19 clinical vaccine trials, building on earlier collaboration in vaccine development, the science and technology minister said on Sunday. China is expending great efforts in the global scramble to develop a vaccine for the new coronaries epidemic that began in its central city of Wuhan, with Chinese researchers ... -
Debt relief for poorest countries could extend beyond 2020 – G7 finance ministers
Group of Seven finance ministers on Wednesday said a debt relief initiative for the world’s poorest countries could be extended beyond the end of the year to help deal with economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic. In a lengthy joint statement, the G7 finance ministers urged all official creditors to join the initiative, called for ... -
Trump cutting U.S. ties with WHO over coronavirus handling
The United States will end its relationship with the World Health Organisation over the body’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday, accusing the U.N. agency of becoming a puppet of China. The move to quit the Geneva-based body, which the United States formally joined in 1948, comes amid growing ... -
Legal experts say Trump’s attempt to curb social media censorship won’t change legal obligations of Twitter, others
U.S. President Donald Trump’s attempt to curb what he says is social media censorship is a political gambit and will not change the legal obligations of companies like Twitter Inc and Facebook Inc, according to legal experts. An executive order signed by Trump on Thursday directs federal agencies to clarify the scope of a law ... -
Zuckerberg distances Facebook from Twitter in Trump fight
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 ... -
Trump threatens to permanently freeze WHO funding, reconsider U.S. membership
U.S. President Donald Trump threatened on Monday to permanently halt funding for the World Health Organization (WHO) if it did not commit to improvements within 30 days, and to reconsider the membership of the United States in the body. Trump suspended U.S. contributions to the WHO last month, accusing it of promoting China’s “disinformation” about ... -
US alleges Chinese hackers trying to steal COVID-19 treatment data
US authorities warned Wednesday that Chinese hackers were attempting to steal coronavirus data on treatments and vaccines, adding fuel to Washington’s war with Beijing over the pandemic. The FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said organizations researching COVID-19 were at risk of “targeting and network compromise” by China. They warned that Chinese ... -
COVID-19: China mocks U.S. response in Once Upon a Virus Lego-like animation
U.S President Donald Trump China has published a short animation titled “Once Upon a Virus” mocking the U.S. response to the new coronavirus using Lego-like figures to represent the two countries. Washington and Beijing are locked in a war of words over the origins of the disease, which emerged in the Chinese city of ... -
U.S. Intelligence says Coronavirus not manmade
The U.S. intelligence community on Thursday said it has concluded that the novel coronavirus “was not man-made or genetically modified,” but is still examining whether the outbreak could have originated in a Chinese laboratory. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which oversees the U.S.’ 17 intelligence bodies, said in a press release that ...
