Telechronics (Ademar Days of opinion): a series of numbers and a couple of news.
More than 2.700 fake news articles related to Covid-19 have been recorded daily on social networks, between false or misleading publications, revealed the European Commission, warning of “high misinformation” in Europe about the pandemic.
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“The Commission identifies, daily, more than 2.700 articles with potential misinformation related to the new coronavirus ”, refers to Brussels in a recent report on ‘fake news’ (fake news) during a pandemic.
Based on the “millions of‘ posts ’ [publications] false or misleading ”reported by online platforms to the European Commission, the institution notes in the document (dated end of April) that “there is a very large potential for disinformation to flourish”.
What is certain is that false claims can endanger lives.
A pandemic of Covid-19 led to greater demand for forms of entertainment, which ultimately led to an increase in subscriptions to services like Spotify. The Swedish company confirms the trend. With the most recent increase in new customers, the barrier of 130 millions of supporters.
Even so, Spotify also points out that with the most unstable economy, several subscribers canceled their accounts. However, these customers are expected to return to service as soon as the situation improves.
More interesting is the fact that, apparently, users' musical preferences have changed with the Covid-19 pandemic, noticing a trend towards more relaxing music.
Disney announced that your streaming service, or Disney +, will be launched in Portugal during the month of September. Along with Portugal also Belgium, Luxembourg and the Nordic countries are covered by the measure.
The news came with the presentation of the company's latest financial results, who revealed that the service already has 54,5 million subscribers worldwide.
According to Cnet, a Netflix, principal ‘player’ in this market and, consequently, Disney's biggest rival in this field, already has more than 182 million subscribers. Still, remember that Disney + was launched about six months ago and is not yet available in all markets.
Not here we usually talk a lot about Tinder, but… fish shoulder!
The recent trend of major digital platforms to improve their video call services has come to Tinder who appears to be planning to integrate capacity into their dating app.
Confirmation came from Match Group, company responsible for Tinder, who said that the ability to make video calls between two people will be launched by the end of the year.
It's easy to see how this feature would completely change the dynamics of Tinder, with users being able to speak ‘face to face’ before arranging a meeting itself.