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US President Donald Trump is going to battle against Twitter and Facebook — a move that could weigh on companies whose shares have so far outperformed during the pandemic.

Elon Musk took a swipe Thursday at a Facebook exec who criticized his knowledge of AI (artificial intelligence).“Facebook sucks,” Musk wrote in response to a tweet from Jerome Pesenti, Facebook’s head of AI.Pesenti had earlier tweeted that Musk “has no idea what he is talking about when he talks about AI” in response to a CNBC article…

BackyardProduction | Getty ImagesGoogle, Facebook and Twitter have partnered with the nonprofit Center for Safe Internet Pharmacies (CSIP) to launch Tech Together (TechTogether.co), an online platform to offer support to individuals with substance use disorders. The site is a collection of resources to help those experiencing substance use disorder or battling addiction and the associated stigma.  Many of…

Earlier this week in a Washington Post editorial, Facebook founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg referenced an opt-in symptom survey being shown on Facebook that could help researchers at Carnegie Mellon forecast Covid-19 cases, based on location. If successful, the project would offer county-by-county insights and be imminently useful to public health officials and hospitals…

Facebook said it will begin publishing the location information of high-reach Facebook pages and Instagram accounts to help combat foreign influence efforts and provide more transparency. The piloting of the new feature will focus on foreign Facebook and Instagram accounts with a large audience in the U.S. “We want to make sure people use our…