Facebook and Twitter restrict Trump accounts over 'harmful' covid misinformation | Thursday 6th August 2020.

The social media platform's removed posts from President Donald Trump that claimed children are 'immune' from the coronavirus. Meanwhile the US Secretary of State has outlined plans to ban "untrusted Chinese apps" from US app stores, as TikTok says it wants to open a data centre in Ireland. A new report though suggests a complete re-think of how data is collected and used is needed to prevent tech giants dominating our lives. Also, is there racial inequality in AI? And an FBI swat team raided the house of a YouTuber. Sony says Covid has vastly increased its game sales for PS4, while Capcom announces a series of characters from Rival Schools will join Street Fighter V. Find out about superbolt lightning in Jupiter's clouds... and which animal has been given the green light by the government to be re-introduced in Devon?

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