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Despite crackdown, ‘junk news’ still flourishes on social media
Technology
November 3, 2018
Despite crackdown, ‘junk news’ still flourishes on social media
Despite an aggressive crackdown by social media firms, so-called “junk news” is spreading at a greater rate than in…
Europe’s news agencies blast Google, Facebook for ‘plundering’ content
Technology
September 4, 2018
Europe’s news agencies blast Google, Facebook for ‘plundering’ content
Europe’s biggest news agencies accused Google and Facebook of “plundering” news for free on Tuesday in a joint statement…
Study finds false stories travel way faster than the truth
World
March 9, 2018
Study finds false stories travel way faster than the truth
Twitter loves lies. A new study finds that false information on the social media network travels six times faster than…
Facebook to emphasize friends, not news, in series of changes
World
January 12, 2018
Facebook to emphasize friends, not news, in series of changes
Facebook Inc on Thursday began to change the way it filters posts and videos on its centerpiece News Feed, the…
Former Ahram newspaper chairman dies
Egypt
January 1, 2018
Former Ahram newspaper chairman dies
The former Chairman of Al-Ahram newspaper’s Board of Directors, Ibrahim Nafea, died on Monday in the United Arab Emirates after…
Egypt’s most famous security company ‘Falcon’ seizes ‘Al-Hayah’ channel
Egypt
September 13, 2017
Egypt’s most famous security company ‘Falcon’ seizes ‘Al-Hayah’ channel
Egypt’s renowned private security company FALCON GROUP declared on Tuesday that it managed to sign a deal with the privately…
Azhar says no Uyghur students arrested from campus, fellow institutions
Egypt
July 8, 2017
Azhar says no Uyghur students arrested from campus, fellow institutions
Azhar, the world’s foremost Sunni Islam institution, denied that any of their Uyghur students has been arrested on the university…
Staff of blocked news outlets threaten to protest at Press Syndicate
Egypt
May 30, 2017
Staff of blocked news outlets threaten to protest at Press Syndicate
A number of staff from local media outlets whose websites were blocked in Egypt held a meeting at Al-Bedaiah newspaper headquarters Tuesday to…
Hack, fake story expose real tensions between Qatar, Gulf
Middle East
May 24, 2017
Hack, fake story expose real tensions between Qatar, Gulf
Qatar said hackers allegedly broke into the website of its state-run news agency on Wednesday and published a fake story…
Translation error in Trump speech confuses Egyptian media
Egypt
April 5, 2017
Translation error in Trump speech confuses Egyptian media
A translation error in US President Donald Trump's speech on military cooperation between Egypt and the US during President Abdel…