Digital media

As part of efforts to crack down on fake news and misinformation in the runup to European Parliament elections this month, social media giant Facebook has partnered with the Greek organization Ellinika Hoaxes to boost fact-checking on its Greek platform.

Greek Technology Company MLS Innovation Inc. announced its entry into Bulgaria. Their main advantage is a voice assistant in Bulgarian language. The MAIC (Artificial Intelligence Center) is an innovative technology embedded in the company's products. It allows voice interaction over a phone or tablet in Bulgarian. The software is available on all devices in the company.

,,There is still much to be done about the safety of children on the Internet.'' This is what the mayor of Sofia Yordanka Fandakova said during the international conference "Building a cyber-resistant society, what can we do more about the safety of children and young people on the Internet?".
The event was organized by the Sofia Security Forum.

From today, Google is beginning to delete profiles and photos on its Google Plus platform. In this way, the company will stop its entire social network, which was created as a Facebook competitor, reported Econ.bg

Subscribers were warned two months ago about the process of deleting profiles.

Seven Bulgarian companies have found their place in the annual ranking of the prestigious business magazine Financial Times, which ranks companies for revenue growth in three years. This year, the threshold for entering the top 1 000 is even higher - 37.7 percent, compared to 34.6 percent last year.

The Ministry of Agriculture will present the first strategy for the digitization of agriculture in Bulgaria, reported Econ.bg

By 2020, the European budget will allocate more than EUR 100 million to this end in the Community.

Today the world celebrates the International Safer Internet Day, writes the Bulgarian National Television.

The focus is on the risks in online space and on the need to develop digital literacy. It turns out that many of the apps we install on our phone benefit from our personal data because we voluntarily give them access. H

Almost half (43 percent) of parents in Greece do not limit their children's internet use, according to the results of a study conducted by the Greek Safer Internet Center in November and December last year.

The survey was carried out on a sample of 14,000 children aged between 10 and 17 from 400 schools in Athens, Thessaloniki, Crete, Patra and Larissa.

A Turkish couple has been criticized by thousands of social media users after they were filmed while "brutally attacking" a snowman in front of their daughter.

The European Commission has approved under European Union state aid rules a voucher scheme to support the take-up in Greece of broadband services with download speeds of at least 100 megabits per second.

The measure will contribute toward reducing the digital divide, while limiting distortions in competition.