Nu.nl

Facebook to also tackle "fake news" in Netherlands

Mar 3 '17 09:20
PoliticsTechnology

Facebook is teaming up with NU.nl and Leiden University to fight "fake news" shared on the social media site in the Netherlands. NU.nl and Leiden University will work as fact checkers, NU.nl reports.

Editors of the two Dutch institutions will be given access to a special Facebook dashboard on which they can see articles that were marked as "fake news" by users. They will then check the facts in the articles, and if they indeed turn out to be factually incorrect, the article will henceforth be marked as such.

Police internal investigations biased: Ombudsman

Sep 19 '14 10:24
Crime

National Ombudsman Frank van Dooren believes that there is a macho culture within the Dutch police force, and that executives within the police are too quick to turn a blind eye to any accusals of excessive force used by their officers, NU.nl reports.

Arjen Robben

Robben upbeat on World Cup chances

Jun 26 '14 10:16
Sports

Dutch footballer Arjen Robben is cautiously confident about his team's future in the World Cup. He is critical about the way his team has been playing, but believes that The Netherlands can reach the final.

Internet

New online banking security flaw found

May 27 '14 11:03

By removing the encryption in internet connections, it seems to become possible to see and manipulate bank transactions at all big Dutch banks, according to research from NU.nl and security company SecureLabs.

Users Internet More Choosy

Oct 17 '13 05:36
Technology

People who use the Internet are getting more choosy on social networks and they also use less news sources. These are the results of a questionnaire of ING among 1515 Internet users.

The outcome of this questionnaire is not in line with what analysts say about the growing number of users for Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. The investigation of ING shows that an increasing of users of social networks are actually inactive. Only Facebook has been visited more last year.

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