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Shunned by many traditional media outlets, right-wing and far-right groups in North Macedonia are expanding their social media presence, but can they convert it into votes?

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced that London will increase military support for Ukraine with weapons and "non-lethal" aid.

In parliament, Johnson described the decision "in line with our previous support" and as a result of the "increasingly threatening" Russia's behavior

Former President Donald Trump's social media app that he hopes will rival Twitter launched on Feb. 21 as he seeks a new digital stage to rally his supporters and fight Big Tech limits on speech, a year after he was banned from Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.

If Meta (the parent company of Facebook and Instagram) is unable to transfer, store and process data from its European users on US-based servers, access to Facebook and Instagram could be suspended across Europe. The owner of the giant Mark Zuckerberg warned about this on social media in his annual report.

The owner of the social network "Facebook" - Meta collapsed in the market with 230 billion dollars - an unprecedented loss for an American company in just one day. Shares fell 26.4% after investors were disappointed by data for the last quarter of 2021.

Meta Shares Fell more than 22%

The shares of the American company Meta on the New York Stock Exchange fell nearly 22 percent after trading was finished on Wednesday and after posting quarterly gains with weak growth forecasts and lower net income. According to the trading platform, an hour and a half after the end of the trading session, the company's quotations on the electronic exchange NASDAQ fell by 22.35%.

Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple battle Washington’s move towards stricter regulation using anti-China lobbying

The owner of Facebook - Meta Platforms - has removed more than 500 accounts associated with an online disinformation network based mainly in China, writes the BBC.

The accounts promoted a fake profile of Swiss biologist Wilson Edwards, who spread allegations that the United States was interfering in attempts to discover the origin of COVID-19.

Zohreh Koudaei, 32, has since responded to the JFA’s request for a “gender verification check”

The EU Election Observation Mission said on Tuesday that non-transparent Facebook pages were responsible for "manipulative interference" in Sunday's mayoral election run-off contests, spreading misinformation about rival parties and candidates, although the polls were well-organised.