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By Brian Fung, CNN Business After years of accusations that it’s helped spread misinformation, Twitter is finally giving users an easy way to report misleading tweets. But don’t expect anything to happen right away because of it. Twitter users in some countries, including the United States, will now be able to report tweets to the

By Diksha Madhok, CNN Business It’s been two days since Kabul fell to the Taliban and social media giants are scrambling to figure out how to deal with the takeover of Afghanistan by the militants. On Tuesday, Facebook reiterated its ban on accounts praising, supporting, or representing the Taliban from its platforms, including WhatsApp and

By Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN Business In early August, Apple announced a major new program designed to help combat child exploitation and promote safety, issues the tech community has increasingly embraced. It was a presentation big on intent but light on the details. What followed — outraged tweets, critical headlines and an outcry for more

By Brian Fung, CNN Business The ransomware attack that forced Colonial Pipeline, one of the largest fuel pipelines in the United States, to go offline this spring also compromised the personal information of nearly 6,000 individuals, a company spokesperson told CNN Business. The pipeline operator has begun sending data breach notification letters to the 5,810

By Matt McFarland, CNN Business Don’t expect any 200 mph trains that rival Europe and Asia’s best, or even cheaper fares. Transportation experts think the infrastructure bill could be the start of a turning point for the disadvantaged state of US rail travel. But the bill doesn’t change the fallout of Americans looking past rail

By Brian Fung, CNN Business An anonymous hacker who stole more than $600 million from the decentralized finance platform Poly Network this week has returned virtually all of the money — and apparently turned down a half-million-dollar reward offered by the company for exposing its security vulnerability. The bizarre outcome caps off an unusual cryptocurrency

By Rishi Iyengar, CNN Business Starting any business is full of challenges. Starting one in the middle of a global pandemic is on a whole other level. That reality didn’t stop serial entrepreneur Rami Essaid from starting Finmark last June, but it did force him to take a different approach. Essaid, who said he “believed

By Rishi Iyengar, CNN Business Facebook is the latest tech company to delay its employees’ return to the office until next year as the Delta variant wreaks havoc on reopening plans around the country. “Data, not dates, is what drives our approach for returning to the office,” Facebook spokesperson Chloe Meyere said in a statement.

By Brian Fung, CNN Business The potential antitrust breakup of Facebook’s digital media empire could start with GIFs. Facebook could soon be required to spin off Giphy in response to concerns by UK regulators, and give up control of that company’s massive library of GIFs — the animated images used by millions to express emotions

By Manveena Suri, Diksha Madhok and Meenketan Jha, CNN Business India’s main opposition party is accusing Twitter of stifling freedom of speech after the company took action against hundreds of tweets that identified the family of a child who was allegedly raped and murdered. Twitter’s decision followed a call from India’s child protection agency to