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A $51 million settlement has been proposed by Meta over a lawsuit in four Canadian provinces related to its “Sponsored Stories” ad program which ran on Facebook from 2011 to 2014, using people’s names and photos without their knowledge. In Business Matters for Jan. 12, Anne Gaviola has more on what’s at stake for tech...

Twitter users declared in a poll put out by Twitter chief Elon Musk that he should step down from his role, with 57 per cent voting in favour of him leaving the job. Musk said when putting out the poll he would abide by its results, which saw more than half of the platform’s 17.5...

The term “fake news” first came to prominence during the 2016 U.S. presidential election when Facebook was used to spread misinformation. And as India chooses its new leader, it’s learning how fake news can influence voters and muddy the waters of an already nasty political battle. Mike Drolet reports.

Whistleblower Christopher Wylie, who helped set up data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica, which harvested private information from more than 50 million Facebook users in developing techniques to support election campaigns, said he came forward to reveal the firm’s practices, not to take down Facebook.

A video from Donald Trump’s Facebook page show’s a different version of the classic video game, swapping out Pac-Man with a Hillary Clinton head and uses “deleted emails” as the object of the game.

The biggest names in social media testified in Washington about Russian trolls and bots to influence the 2016 American presidential election using Facebook, Twitter, and Google. Jackson Proskow reports.