State Department officials are claiming that disinformation related to the coronavirus — including some pushed by Russia — is rampant across popular social media platforms. But the government seems cagey about reporting the details to the companies involved.

The Covid-19 coronavirus is prompting predominant tech conferences spherical the sector to waste their events — so far, several predominant ones bear been called off completely, including Facebook’s annual F8 developer convention.

Facebook filed a federal lawsuit in California on Thursday against OneAudience, a marketing firm that it says paid app developers to use the “login with Facebook” feature to improperly make fetch entry to to non-public recordsdata with out customers' permission.