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Google will skip April Fool’s Day pranks this year
In light of the Covid-19 pandemic, Google will be skipping any April Fools’ Day pranks tomorrow to avoid causing unnecessary confusion.
Covid-19: State-backed players join pandemic cyber crime attacks
Sophisticated state-supported actors are following cybercriminals in exploiting the coronavirous pandemic and posing an "advanced persistent threat" (APT), French defence technology giant Thales warned March 30.
Vitriol and violence: A coronavirus death exposes paranoia in India
When Satyaki Mitra's father developed a mild fever in mid-March, the graduate student in Philadelphia wasn't especially worried. He told his 57-year-old father, living in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata, to get tested for the new coronavirus.
How tech giants use ‘programmed purchasing’ to manipulate you into buying stuff — without you realising it
How much of your online buying is genuinely done on your own initiative and is not the result of intelligent marketing techniques? And does it matter?
The Week That Was: Tech to the rescue
Staying home is being made more pleasant by telcos offering free data. But take heed of MCMC’s warning not to spread fake news.
Covid-19: Why the novel coronavirus became a social media nightmare
The biggest reputational risk Facebook and other social media companies had expected in 2020 was fake news surrounding the US presidential election. Be it foreign or domestic in origin, the misinformation threat seemed familiar, perhaps even manageable.
Covid-19: Internet firm restricts virus-themed website registrations
An Internet firm is ending the automated registration of website names that include words or phrases related to the Covid-19 pandemic, an attempt to combat coronavirus-related fraud.
Covid-19: India’s frontline heroes come under attack as rumours, fake news spread on WhatsApp
They have been hailed as India's coronavirus "heroes", but doctors, nurses, delivery drivers and other frontline workers have been attacked and in some cases evicted from their homes by panicked residents.
Covid-19: Ukraine struggles to debunk fake virus news
The water service in Odessa, a port city in southern Ukraine, was suddenly overrun this week with calls from worried residents with a peculiar concern.
Covid-19: Public distrust hampers Africa fight against virus misinformation
African nations fighting the novel coronavirus face a foe as stealthy and dangerous as the microbe itself: misinformation and apathy, fuelled by deep distrust of government.
