Twitter took action against the official Trump campaign Twitter account Wednesday, freezing @TeamTrump’s ability to tweet until it removed a video in which the president made misleading claims about the coronavirus. In the video clip, taken from a Wednesday morning Fox News interview, President Trump makes the unfounded assertion that Read more…
The social networks say a post of a TV interview Mr Trump gave contained Covid-19 “misinformation”. Source: BBC
Facebook took down a video President Trump posted to his account Wednesday, citing its rules against false claims about the coronavirus. The decision to remove the video signals a new direction for Facebook, which has been taking incremental steps recently to distance itself from the perception that the company deliberately Read more…
The firm says the move represents its “long-term commitment to Europe”. Source: BBC
Uber and Lyft are both facing another lawsuit from the office of the California Labor Commissioner alleging wage theft. Filed today, the suits argue both Uber and Lyft are misclassifying their drivers as independent contractors and aim to enforce the labor practices set forth by AB 5. “The Uber and Read more…
The running mate of John Mahama, Prof Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang has ended her first official visit to the Central Region since she was outdoored. She made the first stop at her hometown, Komenda, in the Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abirem District, where she paid a visit to the Chief and spoke to the excited crowds that desperately wanted to see Read more…
The Communications Director of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has described the decision of the National Peace Council to remain silent on alleged military brutalities at registration centres as unfortunate. This comes after a Peace Council Board Member, Dr Nana S. K Asante, stated that the law does not Read more…
Unagi, the portable and design-forward electric scooter company that made a splash with celebs and pop stars, has launched a subscription service. The service, called Unagi All-Access, will be offered in New York City and Los Angeles. The company said it plans to expand to additional markets as it gathers Read more…
Executive Director for Education Watch Africa has said that providing students with past questions limits them from adequately preparing for their final year exams. Kofi Asare believes students recently do not study further because they solely depend on past questions which pose a challenge to education in the country. “And Read more…
Republic Bank Ghana Limited has advocated for issuance of a Green Bond to raise long term financing for Green Building construction by developers and Green Mortgage financing. This was proposed when the Bank participated in the virtual Ghana Green Building Summit organised by the Yecham Property Consult in conjunction with Read more…
The Governor of the Bank of Ghana has said even though government has projected a 0.9 per cent growth for end year, he is optimistic that growth would strongly pick up more than what has been forecasted by Finance Minister. At a Monetary Policy Committee meeting, he said regarding the Read more…
The Sickle Cell Foundation of Ghana (SCFG), in collaboration with Novartis has developed a mobile digital application (App) to help manage the data collected on newborns in the National Newborn Screening Programme for Sickle Cell Disease (NNSP-SCD). A statement issued in Accra and copied to the Ghana News Read more…
Musician King Maaga has revealed plans for him to join Gem Media has been unsuccessful after the said record label refused to partner to manage him with another label. Speaking to Kady Asamoah on JoyNews, the ‘Evergreen’ hitmaker disclosed his Highly Spiritual Music boss, Kaywa, had agreed to give him Read more…
Ghana could see an 80 per cent drop in Covid-19 infections if 75 per cent of the population wears the appropriate masks. This is according to a Covid-19 modelling team at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). One of the researchers, Dr Emmanuel de-Graft Johnson Owusu-Ansah says the Read more…
Data from the Ghana Tourism Authority has confirmed the untapped market of sports tourism in the country. In 2014, a report from Sports Tourism in India indicated that this department “equates to $600 billion on an annual basis”. In 2016, the global sports tourism industry was valued at $1.41 trillion Read more…
A former Director-General and Rector of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) has rebutted claims that government’s free Senior High School policy is the cause of students depending on leaked questions to pass their final exams. Professor Stephen Adei stated that examination malpractices are a systemic problem Read more…
YouTube has banned a large number of Chinese accounts it said were engaging in “coordinated influence operations” on political issues, the company announced today; 2,596 accounts from China alone were taken down from April to June, compared with 277 in the first three months of 2020. “These channels mostly uploaded Read more…
Too often, Black founders are locked out of Silicon Valley before they even have a chance to get started, Marceau Michel, founder of venture capital firm Black Founders Matter, tells TechCrunch. “It’s important we’re looking at the social justice movement from very different places,” Michel says. “It’s one thing for Read more…
Tinder is testing a new top-level subscription plan, Tinder Platinum, which it expects to roll out before year-end. The news of the coming service was announced this week by Tinder parent Match Group during its Q2 2020 earnings call with investors. Match described the subscription as providing additional value beyond Read more…
Instagram apparently handled searches for popular hashtags related to the two presidential candidates differently, pointing Joe Biden search queries toward often negative related hashtags while making no such suggestions in corresponding searches pertaining to President Trump. A new report by the Tech Transparency Project details the strange platform behavior. In Read more…