by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Aug 30, 2017 | Media
Footballers Abou Diaby, Demba Ba and Jacques Faty performing Umrah after arriving for Hajj pilgrimage, tweeted IlmFeed on Wednesday. “IlmFeed,” is a London-based group which focuses on documenting and posting positive stories about Islam and Muslims,...
by Asharq Al-Awsat English | May 2, 2017 | Media
Riyadh – The Dubai-sponsored forum for Arab Journalism presented Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper’s Editor-in-Chief Ghassan Charbel the Media Personality of the Year Award on Tuesday. Mr. Charbel was awarded at the concluding events of the Arab Media Forum. The event...
by Khaldoun Ghassan Said | Mar 23, 2017 | Media
Jeddah- The famous social media platform ‘Twitter’ has banned at least 636,000 accounts linked to extremism that have been under suspicion since 2015. Over 376,000 accounts were suspended by the social media website in the last six months of 2016 in a bid to crack...
by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Mar 14, 2017 | Media
Germany’s Justice Minister put forward Tuesday a new draft law calling for social networks such as Facebook to remove threatening online postings and defamatory “fake news quickly or face heavy fines. The minister, Heiko Maas, a member of the center-left...
by Amir Taheri | Mar 13, 2017 | Media
London- The European media refer to it as “the latest American soap opera”. To the Russian media, however, it looks more like “a new American civil war.” The “it” in question is the seemingly endless fight between the United States newly elected President Donald J...
by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Feb 6, 2017 | Media
Social media companies Facebook and Google are teaming up with a group of French journalists to fight propaganda and misinformation online, mirroring similar efforts already underway in the United States and Germany. Facebook said it would collaborate with leading...
