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Despite crackdown, ‘junk news’ still flourishes on social media
Technology

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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…
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