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RIYADH: Snapchat has launched a new augmented reality activation to celebrate Saudi Arabia’s 92nd National Day. Last year, the platform introduced a first-of-its-kind activation, which saw the Snap Map of Saudi Arabia appearing in bright green to represent the national flag and the Kingdom highlighted from other countries, marking the first time Snap recolored a Middle East territory on the map. Along with the color change, Snap also marked cultural and heritage sites — such as… Source link

LONDON: Meta Platforms Inc’s WhatsApp said on Thursday that it was working to keep users in Iran connected after the country restricted access to the app and social media platform Instagram.WhatsApp “will do anything” within its technical capacity to keep the service accessible and that it was not blocking Iranian phone numbers, the messaging service said in a tweet.Iran on Wednesday restricted access to Instagram and WhatsApp, two of the last remaining social networks in the… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Microsoft hints at different approach to combat fake news  Arab News Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Microsoft hints at different approach to combat fake news  Arab News Source link

LONDON: TikTok will begin requiring accounts belonging to US government departments, politicians and political parties to be verified and will ban videos aimed at campaign fundraising, the short-form video app said on Wednesday.The move comes as TikTok, owned by China’s ByteDance, and other social media platforms are working to clamp down on political misinformation ahead of the US midterm elections in November, after years of being criticized for allowing such content to flourish on… Source link

LONDON: HBO’s fantasy drama television series “House of the Dragon” set a new record by becoming the best-performing series premiere to date on all platforms in the Middle East and North Africa region, OSN revealed. Since it first aired on Aug. 21, “House of the Dragon” attracted an unprecedented number of viewers with the first episode beating out the finale of the franchise’s predecessor, “Game of Thrones,” by more than 25 percent. “‘House of the Dragon’ is by… Source link

KABUL: The Afghan government is set to ban video-sharing platform TikTok and online multi-player game PUBG within the next three months, an official confirmed on Tuesday, following a string of bans on content deemed immoral since the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan last year. The Taliban announced a ban on both popular apps earlier this year, with the group’s Spokesman Inamullah Samangani saying in April that the move was necessary to “prevent the younger generation from being… Source link

LONDON: Anti-vaxxer groups are using carrot emojis to evade automated moderation tools used by social media networks to detect news that does not comply with the platform policies, the BBC reported on Friday. An investigation revealed multiple Facebook groups in which the carrot emoji was substituted for the word “vaccine.” Because Facebook’s algorithm normally concentrates on words rather than emojis, members were able to sidestep the platform’s automatic content moderation… Source link

Former Disney CEO Bob Iger said on Wednesday the entertainment giant had determined that a “substantial portion” of Twitter’s users were “not real” in 2016, when Disney was weighing a purchase of the social network.Iger said the Walt Disney Co. and Twitter Inc. boards were prepared to enter negotiations when he got cold feet. He said that, with Twitter’s help, Disney had learned that “a substantial portion — not a majority -” of users were fake.“I remember discounting… Source link

NEW YORK: John Miller, who has held major jobs in both justice agencies and journalism, is joining CNN as chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst, the network said on Tuesday.Miller has worked at both ABC News and CBS News during his career. He also worked at the FBI and most recently was the deputy commissioner of intelligence and counterterrorism for the New York Police Department.As a journalist, he covered the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and, prior to that while at ABC… Source link