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The social network Facebook should remove misleading ads that caused scandal in the Netherlands, BGNES writes.

Ads that take advantage of the resemblance of ordinary people to some of the most popular people in the Netherlands are advertising fraudulent schemes for Bitcoin cryptocurrency investments.

The Facebook-owned Instagram app plans to eliminate the number of likes seen under posts for some users in the United States. The goal of the move is to reduce competition between people in the photo and video sharing service, Bloomberg writes.

Facebook launches an experimental news content section. Facebook News will only be available to some US users so far.

The US state of California has been investigating the Internet giant Facebook for a year and a half, it became clear today, writes Reuters.

The case file shows that California accuses Facebook of obstruction of justice, with the company refusing to cooperate with a review of its commercial practices. Facebook did not comment on the news.

Matthew Holliday of the International Commission on Missing Persons speaks to media on Thursday. Photo: Gjergj Erebara/BIRN.

"Today I am pleased to announce that ICMP early this week submitted two DNA match reports at the Institute of Forensic Medicine of the Republic of Albania," Matthew Holliday, head of the Western Balkans Programme at the ICMP, told journalists.

Facebook has agreed to pay a fine of £ 500,000 for breaches of personal data protection law related to the unauthorized use of such data by Cambridge Analytica. This was announced by the Office of the British Information Commissioner (ICOICO, the British regulator for information rights, BNR reported.

Technology giant Facebook announced on Oct. 29 that it was suing Israeli online surveillance firm NSO Group over the alleged hacking of users of its popular WhatsApp messaging service between April and May this year.

The oft-announced, but never implemented, transition of Greece's administration from a paperbound, cumbersome bureaucracy into a fully digital one, will be boosted by the acquisition of a supercomputer into which eventually all ministries will eventually be connected.

According to the first exit polls by Alpha Research, the results of the local elections in major cities in Bulgaria are as follows:

All of the data was collected from Alpha Research.

The General Secretariat of Information Systems for Public Administration (GSIS) intends to create a supercomputing center that will cover the needs of the entire public sector.