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Türkiye's Competition Board has launched a probe into Google to investigate the allegations that the company abuses its dominant position in the market.

The authority completed its preliminary assessments regarding the entity, which consists of Alphabet Inc., Google LLC., Google International LLC., Google Ireland Limited and Google's Turkish advertising unit.

But editors and journalists in Bosnia tell BIRN they struggle with its inconsistency in content moderation and a lack of transparency about its algorithms. And when they call Facebook for clarification, too often they are left hanging.

Fake audio and video created by artificial intelligence are becoming more and more indistinguishable from the real thing. But the bigger threat is to texts, as Chat GPT will be able to amplify, multiply millions of times, the efforts of current disinformers.

"I want to donate money, I need [your] ID," is the Facebook message that changed Marija's life. It was a message that has brought her a lot of anxiety and a large debt, all from a few quick loans and the shame that she let it happen to her at all. Because of that shame, she spoke to BIRN on condition that we not use her real name and refer to her only as Marija.

The US tech giant Google is planning to launch a quantum technologies centre in Ljubljana, Minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation Minister Igor Papič told the STA on 30 May. Doctoral students could start this autumn or next year at the latest. Several hundred engineers are expected to graduate annually.

When Google released its stand-alone Photos app in May 2015, people were wowed by what it could do: analyze images to label the people, places and things in them, an astounding consumer offering at the time.

When crises erupt in Kosovo, fake accounts on Facebook and Twitter pour fuel on the fire.

"The consumer and not the product is now at the center of commercial strategy," Ken Hughes, an expert on matters of consumer behavior and experience told "The Future of Commerce," an event organized by the Athens Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

"78 years after the end of the Second World War, hostilities are again taking place in Europe, and the peoples expect peace to reign". This is what President Rumen Radev wrote on his official Facebook page on the occasion of Europe Day - May 9.

Snapchat parent Snap on April 19 unveiled new tactics including the increased use of artificial intelligence in its struggle to expand beyond the app's loyal user base and reach profitability.