Facebook gives every user a secret reputation score to tackle fake news
Facebook has begun assigning users a reputation score, designed to predict how trustworthy they are, as the social network looks to fight the spread of fake news.
India
Walmart buys majority stake in India’s Flipkart for $16bn
Walmart is buying 77% stake of Flipkart, worth $16bn, eventually wanting the Indian online retail giant to become a publicly-listed subsidiary.
YouTube deleted over 8 million ‘bad’ videos in 3 months
YouTube’s first three-monthly “enforcement report” has revealed that the video sharing site deleted 8.3 million videos between October and December 2017 for breaching its community guidelines, with machines doing most of the work.
Google’s crackdown on Ads – Let’s just read between the lines here
Google’s new rules for mobile ads are now permanently enforced. Oli Gold, UK MD of YOC investigates how this ruling came about, what it means to advertisers and publishers and then where we go from here.
What would happen if the internet shut down for 1 hour?
Which countries would lose the most money if someone actually broke the internet? This new report from Website Builder Expert (WBE) finds that China would suffer the most.