Today’s Tech Digest: Twitter’s record revenues, Instagram’s stricter penalties

Twitter has posted record revenues for the last quarter of 2020, capping off what chief executive Jack Dorsey said was "an extraordinary year" for the platform. The social messaging platform said revenue grew 28% to $1.29bn (£930m) compared to the last quarter of 2019. See full story here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55993097 Instagram is to impose stricter penalties,…

China now a ‘global disinformation superpower’, say researchers

China has become a major player in global social media manipulation campaigns, researchers say, amid an overall increase in the number of countries sharing misinformation online. According to the Oxford Internet Institute, organised social media manipulation has more than doubled since 2017, with 70 countries using computational propaganda to manipulate public opinion. The report says…