Our coverage of all things Facebook. Founded by Mark Zuckerberg and several fellow students in February 2004, the social network has grown to more than a billion users and currently owns Instagram and WhatsApp.
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Google plays politics with China as it quietly bans state-sponsored YouTube accounts
Google yesterday announced it'd banned 210 YouTube accounts “related to the ongoing protests in Hong Kong” and the discovery ...
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Facebook’s ‘cryptocurrency’ Libra may be in more trouble than we thought
Facebook's 'cryptocurrency' Libra may be in even deeper trouble than we thought if a recent report is anything to go by.
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Facebook's 'cryptocurrency' Libra reportedly facing EU competition probe
The European Union’s antitrust regulators are “currently investigating potential anti-competitive behavior” amid concerns ...
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China is paying Twitter to publish propaganda against Hong Kong protesters
Twitter has found itself in a tight spot after it was caught running ads from China's state-backed media outlet Xinhua attacking ...
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Facebook should stop trying to disrupt payments with Libra and focus on repair
Regulators typically look at companies’ intentions and previous compliance when they enter highly regulated fields - which ...
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Binance to launch a blockchain for fiat-backed stablecoins, but who even cares?
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has announced the launch of a new open blockchain, and it's called project "Venus." It should ...
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Facebook's group privacy settings actually make sense now
Until today, Facebook has given you three options for creating a user group: Open, closed, or 'secret.' While the first is ...
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Facebook is courting publishers with multi-million dollar deals to launch its news tab this fall
Facebook is keen to become a major news distributor again, after being lambasted for years over its role in aiding the spread of misinformation. A report from the Wall Street Journal last night indicated that the social network is offering major publications multi-million dollar deals ...
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WhatsApp's chat manipulation exploit remains unresolved even after a year (Updated)
Vulnerabilities uncovered in WhatsApp by cybersecurity firm Checkpoint can allow bad actors to exploit the platform to manipulate ...
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Google and Facebook are gonna hate Apple's new privacy-preserving online ads
Apple has outlined a new Safari feature, called Privacy Preserving Ad Click Attribution, that aims to stop online ads from ...
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Facebook, stop trying to make Libra happen
Data protection bosses from all over the world are concerned about Facebook Libra's potential privacy issues.
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Instagram and WhatsApp get a 'from Facebook' stamp to remind you who's boss
To be honest, I'm kind of impressed Facebook held out this long. After buying WhatsApp and Instagram several years ago, ...
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India doesn't want WhatsApp sharing your payment data with Facebook
Indian government raises concerns that WhatsApp’s payment service might share user data with Facebook and Instagram, compromising ...
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Zuckerberg’s word use suggests Facebook is selling ‘experiences’ and not ‘ads’
Mark Zuckerberg's communication style may not have changed, but his substance has.
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The best way to make money out of Libra? Put a bet on it not launching on time
With every passing week, the future of Facebook's digital currency Libra is looking less and less certain to launch next ...
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Facebook gets away with $5B FTC fine for leaking your data
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has slapped a $5 billion fine on Facebook in wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal ...
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Unsuspecting victims were cryptojacked 52.7 million times in the first half of 2019
Criminals made a staggering 52.7 million cryptojacking hits during the first six months of the year. According to the ...
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Survey finds adults couldn't care less about Facebook's Libra 'cryptocurrency'
Facebook Libra's potential to help cryptocurrency go mainstream has been touted in recent weeks, but recent survey results ...
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Facebook releases AI-powered tools to map the world
Facebook today released a bunch of machine learning-powered tools to help create maps of the world. The company's tools, ...
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Facebook's Messenger Kids failed to do its only job of keeping tabs on children's chats
In 2017, Facebook launched a messenger app for kids to let them safely chat only with people approved by their guardians. ...
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Indian government ban on 'non-sovereign' cryptocurrency would see holders jailed for up to 10 years
A government panel in India has issued a recommendation to ban all "cryptocurrencies created by non-sovereigns," a step which ...
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Facebook forced to take action against fraudsters peddling fake Libra
The social media giant, Facebook, has been forced to address a growing number of fake communications associated to its digital ...
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UK MP on Libra: Facebook’s almost trying to turn itself into its own country
Facebook's 'cryptocurrency' Libra is ruffling feathers among UK politicians amid concerns that the technology giant's entry ...
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We've surrounded the Earth with surveillance satellites, but who is that good for?
It was only on the fourth orbit, when the spacecraft’s orientation had changed, that they ...
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Google and Facebook are tracking your porn preferences – even in incognito mode
It turns out Google and Facebook are tracking your porn consumption habits – and even incognito mode can't save you from ...
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How to build Reddit custom feeds (also known as ‘multis’) like a pro
Here is how to build up custom feeds (otherwise known as multis) on Reddit, and avoid mixing business with pleasure like ...
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PSA: Update WhatsApp now to prevent spyware from being installed on your phone
WhatsApp has patched a critical security vulnerability that allowed attackers to secretly infect phones with malicious spyware ...
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'Trust' was mentioned 69 times at Facebook’s Libra Senate hearing – nice
In the Facebook Libra Senate hearing the word trust was mentioned every two minutes on average, working out to 69 times in ...
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TikTok is testing a WhatsApp shortcut to let you share videos with your best friends
TikTok is testing a bunch of new features, including a new Discover tab, account linking with Facebook and Google, and a ...
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Full moon patents: Disney's immersive VR and Microsoft's next-gen virtual assistant
Disney's working on adding another dimension to VR experiences, and Microsoft is thinking about a virtual assistant that ...
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Over 3.5 billion people are on social media; Facebook still biggest with teens; Esports on the rise
The new Global Digital Statshot report from Hootsuite and We Are Social is packed with all the latest data you need to understand ...
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Here are the Senate's sickest burns dished out to Facebook's Libra
My favorite bit about the Facebook Libra Senate hearing, the sick burns dished out by members of the questioning board. Here's ...
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Trump and his ex-banker treasury secretary are really scared of Bitcoin (and other cryptocurrency)
If I didn't know any better, I'd say Trump and his banking buddies are getting really worried about this cryptocurrency thing. ...
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Donald Trump's critique of Bitcoin is antiquated and irrelevant
US President Donald Trump, known for his complicated relationship with technology and his incessant need to share his ill-advised ...
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Winkevoss twins consider joining Facebook’s ‘cryptocurrency’ despite beef with Zuckerberg
The Winklevoss brothers, co-founders of cryptocurrency exchange Gemini and renown for their well-documented legal battle ...
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Mark Zuckerberg’s ‘new rules’ for the internet happen to benefit Facebook
Facebook has outlined how it intends to clean up its content, making much of the fact that it has expunged 3.3 billion fake ...
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This Chrome extension makes you ponder your mortality while wasting time on social media
There's a death clock for the amount of time you’re wasting on social media. In 2018, the average daily usage of social ...
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India isn't keen on Facebook's Libra 'cryptocurrency'
The authorities in Asia's third-largest economy are no more keen on the social media giant's project than any cryptocurrency ...
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'User in yer face' is an online museum of design horrors
If you think the design of Facebook, Twitter, or any other popular site you use regularly is bad, hold your horses. I'm going ...
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How to know for sure if Facebook (or any social network) is down
Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, ...
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India's largest 4G network teams up with Facebook on a digital literacy program
India's second biggest network provider, Reliance Jio, has teamed up with Facebook to launch a digital literacy program ...
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Is Facebook really the corporate monster everyone wants it to be?
The ethics of Facebook, as a corporation, have come into question lately. Though criticisms of the platform have stretched ...
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Zuckerberg isn't ready for deepfakes
Faced with a potential crisis, the magnitude of which the world has never seen, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants us all ...
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WhatsApp tests letting you share your Status to Facebook and other apps
Though WhatsApp is owned by Facebook, plenty of the app's users are happy to ignore the fact the big blue parent network ...
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Swedish court fines Facebook group admin for failing to delete hate speech
An admin of the Facebook group “Stand Up For Sweden," has been fined by a Swedish court for not regulating and deleting ...
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Facebook’s Libra partners remain cautious amid growing scrutiny from regulators
Facebook's Libra partners have reportedly signed non-binding agreements, meaning they're not obliged to promote or use the ...
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Here’s how to delete or deactivate your Facebook account
Social sites walk a fine line between being handy and consuming your life. Facebook make it tricky to delete your account ...
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Patients' social media use can threaten the reliability of clinical trials
Testing new pharmaceutical treatments is a complicated process. Very often, participants have preferences or hopes, either ...
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Watch out: Calìbra.com isn’t the same as Facebook's Calibra.com
Opportunistic scammers are taking advantage interest in Facebook's cryptocurrency attempting to con people out of Ethereum ...
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Bitcoin price rises past $11,000 following Facebook's Libra announcement
Bitcoin’s price continues to rally surpassing the $11,000 mark over the weekend for the first time in 15 months.
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France to create a joint G7 cryptocurrency task force amid Facebook’s Libra woes
France is putting together a Group of Seven Nations (G7) task force to explore how central banks can make sure cryptocurrencies ...
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Bitcoin healthy AF following Zuckbuck reveal, hash rate hits all-time high
Bitcoin is running on more computational power than ever before, proof that it simply doesn't care who or what launches which ...
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Messaging app Line is reportedly launching a cryptocurrency exchange in Japan soon
Japanese messaging company Line Corp is reportedly gearing up to launch a cryptocurrency exchange, days after fellow tech ...
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Australia: Cryptocurrency unlikely for retail payments, Facebook or not
Australia's reserve bank reckons Bitcoin purists will have a tough time stomaching Facebook's new Libra cryptocurrency, and ...
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Facebook’s Libra 'cryptocurrency' is missing one thing: monetary policy
Facebook has revealed almost every detail about its upcoming 'cryptocurrency,' but one glaring exception is set to rub purists ...
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Facebook will launch its Libra digital currency in 2020
Facebook has finally revealed plans to launch its new digital currency Libra next year.
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Crypto Twitter responds to the reality of Facebook's Libra 'cryptocurrency'
Following months of speculation, Facebook finally confirmed the release of Libra next year and released its long-awaited ...
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'Crypto Twitter' anxiously awaits white paper for Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency
Facebook is set to release its white paper for the new Libra 'cryptocurrency,' and the industry seems divided over exactly ...
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The most popular social media networks each year, gloriously animated
It's hard to remember a world without social media, but it existed – as did a lot of other networks. We tracked their evolution. ...
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Facebook signs major partners for its cryptocurrency network and it still sounds terrible
Facebook has begun assembling a who's who of big tech companies to back its soon to be unveiled cryptocurrency, GlobalCoin. ...
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Facebook finally faces GDPR lawsuit after getting shot down in Austrian court
A GDPR case against Facebook, launched by Austrian privacy activist Max Schrems, has been deemed legal under EU law after ...
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Facebook, Twitter and major social media sites blocked amid Liberian anti-corruption protest
Telecommunications companies and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in Liberia have restricted Internet access in the country ...
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How to mute noisy conversations (and accounts) on Twitter, Gmail, Slack, and more!
Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, ...
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Facebook bans Huawei from pre-installing its apps, but does it matter?
Facebook has banned the Chinese tech company from pre-installing its apps – Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp – on Huawei's ...
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Naked protestors redress Facebook's prude nudity policy
Yesterday, the National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) announced that Facebook will reconsider its nudity guidelines. ...
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Dutch billionaire and Big Brother creator sues Facebook over fraudulent Bitcoin ads
Cryptocurrency fraudsters used Dutch billionaire John de Mol to peddle Bitcoin scams. Now, he wants revenge, and Facebook ...
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The only person with the power to fire Zuckerberg is Zuckerberg himself
Independant shareholders of the company made a case for Mark Zuckerberg's ouster as Facebook's chairman, but their proposals ...
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Facebook board votes yae on Zuck, nay on Conservatives
A mutiny attempt today by a coalition of anti-Zuckerberg Facebook shareholder groups resulted in a resounding defeat as the ...
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Trying to quit your phone addiction? There's an app for that
We’re squandering increasing amounts of time distracted by our phones. And that’s taking a serious toll on our mental ...
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Fake Facebook accounts are influencing African elections
Facebook has issued a statement on how it removed fake accounts originating from Israel that ran Facebook Pages, Groups ...
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Full moon patents: Disney’s ‘paintcopter’ and Amazon’s ‘decentralized’ drone
Ugh, the Gregorian calendar is so boring. That’s why we’re disrupting monthly series with a lunar cycle-based series ...
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Why Snapchat’s new gender swap feature is problematic for many trans people
You’ve probably seen it all over your social media timelines and stories this week — friends using Snapchat’s new gender-bending ...
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The most compelling tech tools to assist the visually impaired
In celebration of Global Accessibility Awareness Day, here's a look at some of the most innovative apps and solutions helping ...
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Here's why your Facebook groups went secret overnight
Word of apparently malicious attacks on Facebook groups has prompted many to switch their visibility to "Secret" preemptively. ...
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White House launches social media survey to collect Conservative tears
The Trump administration on Wednesday launched a new tool where pissed off Conservatives can whine about social media bias. ...
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Facebook finally takes steps to limit abusive live streamers
Today, the social network introduced a new 'One strike' policy to ban users who violate its community guidelines. It's introducing ...
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Here's what Facebook announced at its F8 developer keynote
Facebook announces a redesign of its social network alongside updates to Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp at F8 deve conference. ...
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Revenge of the nerds: Facebook is developing human-level AI to fight bullying
Facebook might be taking its bullying problem a lot more seriously than you think. Rather than hire more humans to flag troubling ...
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Facebook’s Secret Crush feature wants to help you find friends who are, like, totally obsessed with you
Facebook just added a feature that will let you list all the friends you have crush on. This feels like it's going to go ...
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Can we trust Ireland to enforce GDPR on big tech?
GDPR is complicated business; even people like me who try to keep up with all its developments struggle to understand this ...
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Dead Facebook users could outnumber the living by 2069
Within the next 50 years, Facebook could feel more like a place for the dead than the living, according to academics from ...
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Facebook clamps down on personality quizzes to plug data leaks
Facebook has updated its devloper platform policies to subject apps with minimal utility, such as personality quizzes, to ...
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Facebook sets aside billions to pay its way through privacy issues
Facebook said it has set aside $3 billion in connection with an ongoing FTC investigation into its privacy abuses set off ...
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WhatsApp is failing to stop the spread of child abuse videos
Facebook-owned WhatsApp continues to be a hotbed for sharing sexual abuse videos in India, according to fresh findings from ...
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Mark Zuckerberg has a podcast now - but you may have already heard it
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg just launched a podcast the same day that his company issued its latest quarterly earnings report. ...
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This ad agency is creating fake worlds to sell real products
We took a deep dive into the creative process behind the wildly surreal marketing campaigns W+K's Department of New Realities ...
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Facebook exposed millions more Instagram passwords than we realized
Facebook today revealed it'd discovered millions of improperly secured passwords on its server. So, you know... business ...
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Facebook uploaded 1.5 million people’s email contacts without permission
Welcome to the newest episode of "Facebook screws up daily." it uploaded contact lists of over 1.5 million people since 2016, ...
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Jumbo is an iPhone app that clears your old tweets and Google searches
There’s an insane amount of news every day about social networks screwing up and compromising user data. So, it’s advisable ...
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How tech giants can strangle transformative tech at birth — and how to stop them
Google is digesting its third whopping antitrust penalty from the European Commission, having been fined €1.5 billion (£1.3 ...
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Why Facebook will have a hard time becoming the next WeChat
Mark Zuckerberg recently posted an article that got a great deal of attention entitled “A Privacy-Focused Vision for Social ...
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Yes, there's a subreddit that skewers those targeted Facebook t-shirt ads
Facebook ads are usually weird and funny when they're not showing off spooky knowledge of your life and hobbies. Those targeted ...
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Facebook data leak (yeah, another one) allegedly exposes passwords, likes, etc
Flip that board that says "It's been _ days since we found a massive pile of unsecured Facebook data" right back to zero, ...
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WhatsApp launches a tip line in India to battle fake news ahead of national elections
WhatsApp has launched a tip line in India to which you can send forwards, rumors, and suspicious-sounding messages and have ...
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How Mark Zuckerberg wants governments to regulate content on online platforms
It looks like Mark Zuckerberg’s now into blogging. In an op-ed in the Washington Post, the Facebook CEO asked governments ...
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Facebook announces a long-overdue transparency tool for News Feed
Over the weekend, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg sounded the alarm, calling for increased government regulation for internet ...
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How to add Facebook events to your Google Calendar
Facebook events are one of the few good things about the social network, and now with this guide you can import them
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It shouldn't take a tragedy for tech companies to fight hate on their platforms
Shortly after the terrorist attack in New Zealand, Facebook has committed to clamping down on white nationalism and white ...
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Australian celebs targeted in long-running Bitcoin scam on Facebook
Bitcoin fraudsters are still using celebrities to promote their scams on Facebook and dupe investors out of money.
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Facebook is hiring 22 people for its secretive blockchain division
Facebook is currently seeking to hire a number of blockchain and cryptocurrency experts in the fields marketing, UX design, ...
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4 ways social media platforms can stop hateful content after terror attacks
The deadly attack on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, in which 50 people were killed and many others critically ...
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Facebook is hiring a lead for its blockchain counsel
It seems Facebook isn't content with its team dedicated to building its cryptocurreny, it's now looking for someone to lead ...
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How Facebook plans to use machine learning to wipe out revenge porn
Facebook is going to use machine learning to weed out non consensual intimate photos of users even before any of them reports ...
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Why can't Facebook keep problematic videos off its platform?
Facebook said it removed some 1.5 million video clips of the NZ attack from its platform. But couldn't it do more to prevent ...
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Reddit operates exactly as it was designed -- and that’s a problem
After carefully selecting a semi-automatic weapon from the trunk of his car, one of at least three, a 28-year-old gunman ...
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Facebook's new VR avatars are more lifelike than anything you've seen before
Facebook has quietly been developing a revolutionary system to create virtual avatars of people that closely resemble them. ...
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A close reading of Facebook's wild nudity and sex guidelines
After discovering Facebook's adult nudity and sexual activity guidelines, we knew you deserved an analysis of them. So, here ...
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If properly enforced, GDPR can solve social media's biggest problems
From concerns about data sharing to the hosting of harmful content, every week seems to bring more clamour for new laws to ...
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Facebook's News Feed is a mess, but it taught me to time travel
My relationship with Facebook has changed over the past two years. I’ve never been a fan, per se, but I find myself interacting ...
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Facebook has apparently lost 15 million US users since 2017, but it's still winning big elsewhere
Edison Research noted last week that according to a survey, Facebook has an estimated 15 million fewer users in the US today ...
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PSA: Don’t give out your phone number for Facebook 2FA, use an app instead
It's no secret that Facebook doesn't respect your privacy in the least: we learned last October that the company used the ...
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Q4 2018 internet report: Almost 4.2 billion humans are online
The data in Hootsuite and We Are Social’s new Q4 Global Digital Statshot report reveal that the ‘Next Billion’ is fast ...
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Facebook’s ad interactions drop 20% — here’s everything you need to know
As I mentioned in my last post, the data in my new 2018 Q3 Global Digital Statshot – produced in partnership with We Are ...
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Report: Facebook ad clicks tumble, but the internet keeps on growing
The new 2018 Q3 Global Digital Statshot report from Hootsuite and We Are Social shows that there was plenty of change in ...
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Will the algorithmic timeline be the death of social media?
A built-in stopping point provided a sense of control over our social timelines and newsfeeds. Do you miss the days of chronological ...
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Facebook "owns" my family: a cautionary fable
I hate New Year. I don’t do resolutions and am generally “bah, humbug” about the whole hullabaloo. This year, my ...
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Facebook Ad Library: Only 3 'Brexit' ads for whole month. Yeah, right!
Facebook may well look back on 2018 as its annus horribilis. From the Cambridge Analytica scandal in March, to a data breach ...
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Facebook sucks for privacy, but how good are advertisers at targeting me?
Amid the massive hue and cry about Facebook’s utter disregard for data privacy, and the illicit use of personally identifiable ...
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Google, Facebook, and Amazon’s not-so-secret weapon for success: M&A
Whether you’re an entrepreneur or an established CEO, growing your business is always job number one. It’s how you’ll ...
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Depressing lessons 2018's endless data breaches taught us
In the days after Facebook's September announcement about a bug that may have compromised 90 million users – yes, that ...
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How to decentralize social media, according to Wikipedia’s co-founder
The problem about social media is that it is centralized. Centralization empowers massive corporations and governments ...
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What we know about Facebook’s secretive cryptocurrency – and what we don’t
Rumours about Facebook's potential entry into the world of cryptocurrency have been swirling around for months, but it now ...
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Content moderation jobs for social networks are still terrible
Years after platforms began employing AI and thousands of human workers to remove problematic content, the job is still as ...
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Pinterest takes the lead in the fight against online misinformation
The battle against misinformation just signed up a powerful, albeit unlikely ally: Pinterest. Earlier this week, the social ...
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Facebook's global content moderation fails to account for regional sensibilities
Over the past year, Facebook’s biggest challenge has been moderating billions of posts every day in more than a hundred ...
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Zuckerberg's 'blockchain login' plan makes absolutely no sense
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is exploring blockchain technology for the company's third-party login services, but his plan ...
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Facebook is doing something with blockchain, but nobody knows what
In true tech company fashion, Facebook has remained tight-lipped about its blockchain-related plans.
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As Facebook turns 15, I have a question for Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg
The last couple of years have been tumultuous for the company, as numerous reports revealed egregious missteps in keeping ...
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If tech companies are hurting journalism, can they also help save it?
As professions go, journalism isn’t exactly known for its stability. The last half of January only served to highlight ...
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This week's Facebook-Google-Apple drama, explained
With so much happening in the tech world, this week feels like it’s 21 days long. The highlight of the week has been the ...
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A handy list of ways Facebook has tried to sneakily gather data about you
As we learned last year, Facebook has a habit of stealthily grabbing customer data to improve its own products and services, ...
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After Facebook, Google apologizes for running a user data collection program on iOS
Last night, just when we were trying to get our heads around Facebook's data collecting program, TechCrunch reported that ...
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Amazon, Facebook, and Google don’t need to spy on your conversations to know what you’re talking about
If you’ve ever wondered if your phone is spying on you, you’re not alone. One of the most hotly debated topics in technology ...
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Facebook memos show reluctance to prevent 5-year-olds from making accidental purchases
New Facebook documents revealed yesterday shows the company’s attitude towards children spending their parents’ money ...
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How 2018 became Facebook’s worst year in privacy and security
In early December, Facebook’s developer team declared the discovery of a security bug that gave developers access to ...
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Facebook's secretly working on LOL -- a meme hub meant to lure teens from Snapchat, Instagram, and TikTok
Facebook hasn’t given up on attracting teens. After numerous failed products aimed at teens — including LOL, Facebook ...
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Facebook docs reveal a predatory policy for dealing with kids' accidental purchases [Update]
A federal judge this week ruled Facebook must make public internal documents that reveal the rather unsavory ways the company ...
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Facebook ousts hundreds of fake news accounts tied to Russia
Facebook today removed multiple accounts, Pages, groups, and Instagram profiles that were related to Russian networks. The ...
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Report: WhatsApp surpasses Facebook as the social network's most popular app
In recent years, Facebook has arguably been the most popular app in a lot of major markets across the globe. However, WhatsApp, ...
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Facebook launches Spectrum to make uploading large images easier
Spectrum promises to make mobile uploads better.
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Meet the people building their own sex toys
Since sex toys are becoming increasingly more expensive, some people are taking initiative and building their own sex toys. ...
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Questions about consent loom after tech brothel auctions off robot’s virginity for $10K
People can pledge $10,000 to be the first person to have sex with a robot at Eve’s Robot Dreams brothel in California after ...
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US police can't force you to unlock your phone with fingerprints or face recognition
A US federal court judge ruled that police can't compel suspects to unlock their phones using biometrics like face recognition, ...
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Facebook and YouTube aren't even trying to enforce the Alex Jones ban
After Alex Jones was effectively banned from the internet — or at least his major distribution channels — last August, ...
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Mark Zuckerberg resolves to hold public talks on the future of tech this year
In 2019, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg intends to "host a series of public discussions about the future of technology in society." ...
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Twitter will begin testing ‘ice breakers’ to spark healthy conversation
Last year, Twitter touted a handful of features meant to spur conversation on the platform. Or, “increase the health of ...
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Tech stocks are overvalued and it’s killing innovation
We’re entering an unprecedented era of advanced technology and behemoth tech companies driving its development. Earlier ...
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Facebook removed 800 pages and accounts for spreading fake news
In a move to fight fake news, Facebook yesterday said that it deleted more than 800 pages and accounts. that included 559 ...
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Elections, fake news, and spam: WhatsApp has a tough year ahead in India next year
In India, most people won't ask you for a business card to get your contact info. Instead, they'll ask you if you use WhatsApp. ...
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How to quietly ditch people you follow on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram
Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, tricks, guides, and advice on how to get the most out of your gadgets, apps, ...
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A recap of tech's crazy 2018
2018 brought us incredible robots, data theft, callous CEOs, errant self-driving cars, and yet another cryptocurrency crash. ...
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How a group of students discovered the sounds of solar storms
The students discovered a loud crunching noise followed by a series of whistling sounds whose pitch decreased. This event ...
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3 surprising ways social ‘neighborhood’ apps could boost your business
Have you ever logged onto Facebook, only to be inundated with mundane status updates from your ex-high school classmate or ...
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2018: The year Congress and social media collided
One of the biggest, and most unwelcome revelations of the past few years is just how much social media platforms can be -- ...
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This study shows why people fall for fake online profiles
The first step in online propaganda and misinformation campaigns is a fake social media profile. According to this study, ...
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The internet is toxic because humans are toxic
No matter how well we code, no matter how convincingly we simulate and augment reality, there's no software that can make ...
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We stopped using these apps in 2018 — here’s why
To stop using an app is easier said than done. Still, TNW's incredible staff writers mustered the strength to do so -- you ...
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The best new social media features of 2018
Social media sites and apps have changed a lot since the beginning of the year. Here are a few of our favorite changes from ...
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Let's stop worshipping Silicon Valley in 2019
Silicon Valley is basically this American generation’s Detroit. It’s a business hub, an economic engine, and the stuff ...
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Facebook's latest privacy stumble gave big tech access to your messages
Facebook became embroiled in yet another privacy scandal before the holidays, this time centering around access it allegedly ...
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The free internet makes us the product — we need to stop it
The bad headlines continue to stack up for Facebook this year: from the Cambridge Analytica scandal, to the New York Times ...
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Memes are taking the alt-right’s message of hate mainstream
Think of an internet meme and you’ll probably smile. The most memorable viral images are usually funny, from Distracted ...
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This sex-positive dating app connects people through their fantasies
As with, well, everything really, the internet has changed the dating game. Just think how ubiquitous the phrase “swipe ...
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How numb are we to Facebook's fuck-ups at this point?
What would have been a PR nightmare last year is just a blip on the radar for Facebook in 2018.
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How to delete Facebook without losing your friends and photos
Casey Neistat wrote an article back in 2014 how he 'fixed' his Facebook by unfriending people who shared too much. I ...
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'They clearly don't care': Fact-checkers on the state of misinformation at Facebook
After a deluge of fake news began to overwhelm Facebook, it got proactive. The social media platform tapped bi-partisan organizations, ...
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Facebook is hiring engineers and researchers for its blockchain team
It seems Facebook is looking to step up its "decentralization" efforts. The social media giant is recruiting blockchain engineers ...
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Hello Big Brother: EU wants to manage your digital identity on the blockchain
Blockchain promised us freedom and liberation from centralized authorities like governments, but in the latest report from ...
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Internal docs show Facebook absolutely loves your data
Unless you’re waking up from a decade-long deep slumber, you know that Facebook doesn’t give two hoots about your privacy, ...
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France will tax tech giants in 2019 if EU doesn’t step up
France hasn't given up on creating a tax on digital revenue to prevent the likes of Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and ...
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250-page document dump is another nail in Facebook’s coffin
A member of British Parliament just released a massive cache of Facebook's internal documents, blowing the lid off some pretty ...
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How Cambridge Analytica leveraged fashion to sway undecided voters
Few could have guessed that the type of jeans they bought, or the music they listen to while buying them, would serve as ...
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Nigeria caught in WhatsApp fake news whirlwind ahead of elections
After numerous infamous cases of people in India and Brazil falling prey to fake news spread on WhatsApp, the problem is ...
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I communicate with my parents via email... is that weird?
Parents are weird — you love them, but also want them as physically far from you as possible. Until you miss them, or want ...
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Here's how we take back control over our digital identities
The data reckoning has arrived. We’re already too familiar with the breach headlines: Equifax, Under Armour, Target. But ...
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Hate speech is still too easy to find on social media
If social media sites want to avoid becoming vectors for hate speech, plagues of hateful ideas, and memes, they need to step ...
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If Facebook's new auto-comment feature isn't rock bottom, it has to be close
It's been two tumultuous years. Still, it's highly unlikely we've witnessed the moment Facebook hit bottom. A new feature, ...
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Facebook hack proves we need new user authentication methods
Facebook's recent security hack that possibly affected 90 million users has exposed the fundamental flaws that our authentication ...
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Facebook's former PR firm seeded fake stories about bias at Apple News
Facebook's recently-fired PR firm allegedly floated a story to journalists that Apple News was biased against Republicans. ...
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Digital rights groups demand Facebook let you appeal removed posts
A group of 88 civil liberties groups have penned an open letter to Facebook requesting the company allow users to appeal ...
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Don’t post your kid online
As we set out on a two-hour drive, my pregnant girlfriend told me she didn’t want anyone, including ourselves, to share ...
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We’re living in digital serfdom — trading privacy for convenience
Think for a second: compared to your grandparents and parents, what do you actually own outright? Why own when you can ...
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What happened to our VR future?
The latest innovation from Oculus -- the Oculus Quest -- was supposed to take the digital world by storm, but a relatively ...
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The Facebook ad-pocalypse is coming, so spend your budget on creativity
Brands pour billions of dollars into Facebook advertising, but the social media giant isn’t going to last forever. So, ...
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Our lack of interest in data ethics will come back to haunt us
When was the last time you saw a creepy ad on Facebook, which seemed to know about a product you were discussing with a coworker? ...
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Why poor teens haven't abandoned Facebook
Facebook use remains high among teens from low-income families, unlike their more affluent peers. So why do they stick around? ...
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October in Africa: Egypt stifles tech innovation, Google gets busy
The Egyptian government has had a busy time of late, shutting down taxi app mergers, taxing e-commerce platforms, and enforcing ...
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Is Tim Cook the champion of privacy?
Today’s ceaseless data scandals have everyone talking about privacy, especially insofar as our favorite digital devices ...
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Here’s how face recognition tech can be GDPR compliant
Ah, face recognition, that nifty little feature that's already making the still new fingerprint scanners (kind of) obsolete. ...
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Facebook can simply say ‘no’ to EU’s proposed audit
EU Parliament has called for an audit on Facebook as it believes the company's handling of data has breached EU law -- but ...
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Facebook fined 0.001% of its 2017 revenue for Cambridge Analytica scandal
UK watchdog just fined Facebook £500,000 for the Cambridge Analytica scandal, but the amount is unlikely to affect the social ...
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Full moon patents: US Navy tube drones and Facebook doppelgängers
Ugh, the Gregorian calendar is so boring. That’s why we’re disrupting monthly series with a lunar cycle-based series ...
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Facebook now lets you add music to your profile and Stories
Facebook today announced it was offering several new ways for users to incorporate music into their on-site identities -- ...
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Tim Cook supports EU’s strict privacy laws — but thinks taxes are 'crap'
Apple's CEO, Tim Cook, gave a keynote at ICDPPC where he called for better data policies in tech and lauded EU's GDPR. Unfortunately, ...
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Facebook trims Messenger's clutter with new update
Facebook today announced it was overhauling Messenger, updating the interface and cutting down on the embarrassing amount ...
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This Google project visualizes the global effect of #MeToo's first year
The #MeToo movement is one year old and Me Too Rising, a Google product, visualizes the movement's global effect from October ...
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Germany wants a global 'minimum tax' for tech giants' revenue
Germany's finance minister, Olaf Scholz finally supports global minumum tax on tech giants. France and Germany push for the ...
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50% of American WhatsApp users don't know it's owned by Facebook
Research from the search engine DuckDuckGo has revealed 50 percent of American WhatsApp users don't realize Facebook owns ...
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Here's why we rage about religion on Facebook
On Christmas Day last year, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg used his website to tell the world that he was not an atheist any ...
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How an employee screw-up made my company better at employee retention
In order to keep a start-up company’s momentum going, you have to be proactive and creative in retaining employees -- since ...
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Facebook reveals details of September data breach affecting 29M users
Facebook today revealed more information about the September data breach that potentially affected up to 50 million users. ...
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Why social media payments and cryptocurrencies could be perfect partners
As users become more familiar and adapted with cryptocurrencies, social media platforms should consider supporting bitcoin. ...
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Why trying to regulate social media is a political mess
Free speech is a key aspect of the internet, but it has become obvious that people push the freedom to extremes. But regulating ...
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How the new mosquito emoji can create buzz to battle mosquito-borne disease
The mosquito emoji was released as a part of the iOS 12.1 update. It's hoped that it will help battle mosquito-bourne diseases ...
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Facebook is using your personal data, here’s why it’s fine
When the Cambridge Analytica scandal came out, it did more than just shake up Facebook, it stirred the conversation about ...
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Instagram test shares location data with Facebook
Instagram appears to be testing a new setting which would allow it to share user location data with parent company Facebook ...
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Facebook thinks saying ‘all men are trash’ is hate speech — it’s not
Facebook believes statements like "men are trash" are a form of hate speech. Facebook Jailed is a site that exposes Facebook's ...
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EU’s new copyright law will cement the dominance of tech giants
The new European Union Copyright Directive, passed recently by the European parliament after a vociferous campaign both for ...
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Bans aren’t the answer to problematic social media accounts
Popular social channels have banned alt-right conspiracy theorist and hate speech-advocates but this isn't the answer to ...
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Here's how to keep advertisers from using your phone number on Facebook
A Gizmodo report on Wednesday detailed the latest in a long series of Facebook privacy blunders. The report said, and Facebook ...
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Facebook allegedly blocked users from sharing stories about its data breach
Facebook revealed, earlier today, that it had detected a data breach affecting at least 50 million accounts (and as many ...
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Crafty kids are finding ingenious ways to thwart Apple's 'Screen Time' feature
Apple first introduced Screen Time this summer as one of the key feature additions on iOS 12. By adding limits to specific ...
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How your media buying agency is screwing you over
Since your digital media buying agency charges you a percentage of the ad buy spend, they have no intention of saving you ...
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We shouldn’t market to people’s past — we need real-time, location-based strategies
We need to stop marketing to people's past and realize that people's hobbies, interests, and lifestyles change as time goes ...
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‘Free tech’ economy creates harmful monopolies and alters our self-expression
Many of the world’s biggest companies would be giving away their services for free in today’s digital economy and costs ...
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Instagram is testing a 'regram' feature to natively repost content
On Twitter there's the retweet button. Facebook has the share icon. On Instagram, nothing. To date, users have had to ...
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ACLU says Facebook ads allow employers to favor men over women
ACLU has filed a complaint against Facebook claiming that it allows employers to discriminate women. Facebook's ad options ...
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Being a whistleblower in tech isn’t easy — here’s why
When the term “whistleblower” comes to mind, generally one is reminded of government and even shadow agency problems ...
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US government wants to imprison some poor schmuck for pirating Deadpool on Facebook
We're not entirely sure Deadpool himself would be pleased with this outcome. So we decided to ask him ourselves. Not that ...
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Mark Zuckerberg admits Facebook needs help protecting the elections
We're now less than two months out from the US midterm elections, and the pre-emptive assurances about security from social ...
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EU’s decision on Copyright Reform tomorrow could be a turning point for the web
The EU Parliament is having a final vote on Copyright Reform on September 12. The decision will greatly affect the final ...
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Apple's move to shake up the newspaper industry offers little upside
Apple is making a play at the publishing business. In March, the company acquired Texture, a subscription-based magazine ...
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UK bans ‘misleading’ Facebook ads for a popular contraceptive app
The UK’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned Natural Cycle's advert on Facebook after claims that ads were ...
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Both Yahoo and AOL are scanning customer emails to attract advertisers
Oath, the advertising arm of Verizon -- which owns both Yahoo and AOL -- has been pitching advertisers a service that would ...
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Zuckerberg (not Mark) signs on to advise a major cryptocurrency exchange
Randi Zuckerberg has featured prominently in Huobi’s announcement of its new “expert advisory team,” alongside controversial ...
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Data restrictions don’t have to spell disaster for companies
The Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data scandal was a disaster for everyone: those who use Facebook, Facebook itself, advertisers, ...
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Now is the perfect time for foreign developers to focus on the Chinese app market
Although there are issues with China's tech scene — like its harsh censorship. Now is the perfect time for us developers ...
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The real cost of the free internet is your data
The bad headlines continue to stack up for Facebook. In the past few weeks The New York Times reported that Facebook gave ...
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It took Facebook months to ban this shady app after Cambridge Analytica
Facebook announced this week it had made its first outright ban of an app in the company-wide audit it's been working on ...
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Facebook will remove 5,000 discriminatory ad options this fall
Facebook recently came under fire after investigations revealed that the tech giant offer discriminative ad targeting options ...
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Facebook implements trust scoring for all users
Facebook is assigning users a score to gauge how trustworthy they are -- but it will neither disclose the criteria nor what ...
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Over 50k people have blocked Twitter's biggest advertisers over the Alex Jones debacle (and you can too)
Alex Jones can't win these days. As the unofficial mascot of conspiracy theorists everywhere, Jones -- the man who answers ...
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This browser extension makes it harder for Facebook advertisers to target you
A trio of Mozilla Fellows just released a browser extension that'll help you thwart Facebook's targeted advertising machine. ...
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Scam victims warn fake accounts will ruin Facebook's dating site
Facebook wants to create a dating site. Those who've been scammed -- or had their pics stolen by scammers -- aren't keen ...
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Internal Facebook note reveals clever 'psychological trick' to attract teenage users
Always on the lookout for novel ways to attract teens, Facebook purchased viral polling app TBH last October. The app fell ...
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Facebook mistakenly celebrated a devastating earthquake
Facebook was recently forced to apologize -- yeah, I know, again -- for inadvertently celebrating the deadly Indonesian ...
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Inside Google's plan to stalk your social media accounts
Google, once again, is excited about social media. But not in the ways you might think; this isn't about another in a failed ...
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And then there was Twitter
Having been banned by Apple, Spotify, Facebook, and YouTube -- and having a significant amount of his content removed on ...
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Facebook recently started asking banks for your financial data
A report from the Wall Street Journal today revealed Facebook was attempting to gain detailed financial information from ...
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Facebook is done dealing with Alex Jones
Facebook today followed the lead of Apple, Spotify, and YouTube in removing four Pages belonging to Infowar's Alex Jones, ...
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Activists aren't happy after Facebook removes phony protest rally
Activists are in an uproar after Facebook removed an event in its recent crackdown on "inauthentic content." In spite of ...
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Facebook's Digital Literacy Library is an imperfect course in online etiquette
Facebook today released a "Digital Literacy Library," a series of education modules designed to help parents and teachers ...
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Parents are shelling out $20/hour for Fortnite tutors and the internet is losing its goddamn mind
In what surely constitutes a sign of the coming apocalypse, parents are shelling out up to $20 an hour for coaches to help ...
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Facebook's airplane reaction wasn't cleared for takeoff
You might have noticed an addition to Facebook's menu of reactions yesterday: A tiny airplane. This unidentified flying object ...
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Facebook is developing a singing contest feature to rival musical.ly
Facebook is reportedly developing a new feature called 'Talent Show' which will allow users to record themselves singing ...
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Facebook and Instagram officially announce new tools to fight social media addiction
Facebook and Instagram have announced a selection of tools to help their users combat social media addiction and manage the ...
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Prepare yourself: Facebook could be the future of national census
Every ten years, governments around the world conduct their national census: a count of the resident population. This is ...
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Facebook follows YouTube in suspending Alex Jones
Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has been suspended from Facebook for bullying and hate speech. It's about damn time. Just ...
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MoviePass never had a chance
Subscription movie service MoviePass offered anyone willing to shell out $10 a month -- less than the price of a single movie ...
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YouTube offers an imperfect solution to Facebook's Alex Jones problem
Facebook gives Alex Jones a voice, YouTube understands the damage he might do with it. Its solution to the Jones problem ...
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Not even shirtless Jesus gets a pass on Facebook's anti-nudity policy
Facebook's ad policies have rules against nudity, and not even classical art is exempted. But shouldn't cultural signficance ...
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Justin Sun now owns BitTorrent, the first of his Infinity stones
Justin Sun's acquisition of BitTorrent has been finalized, effectively bringing 100 million new users to the Tron (TRX) decentralized ...
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Paying for a service doesn’t guarantee it won’t sell your data
In the wake of Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica scandal and congressional hearings, there’s a palpable sense that the pressure ...
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Trump inauguration kicked off the 'angriest' period in Facebook's history
According to a new study by Pew Research Center, social media users are angrier than they've ever been -- at least as best ...
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Zuckerberg says Facebook doesn't decide truth. He's right.
Mark Zuckerberg recently fell into a whole ocean of hot water when he appeared to equivocate on the controversial topic of ...
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EOS rumored for new wave of investments from Bitmain and billionaire Peter Thiel
Peter Thiel, the tech billionaire who co-founded PayPal, is rumoured to have backed development group Block.one and by extension ...
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Data shows people want serious long-form content — and brands need to take note
You probably noticed the recent video that asked people whether they heard “Yanny” or “Laurel.” It would have been ...
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Facebook's fight against fake news stops short of banning it
As Facebook continues its alleged fight against fake news, it's been undermined this week by a comment made by an executive ...
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Facebook's 'trustworthy' news is mostly Anderson Cooper and Fox News
Facebook this week unveiled the schedule for its funded news shows, and it could use a little diversity -- the entire slate ...
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Facebook will let you use AR to 'try on' items in ads
Facebook is rolling out a new ad format that uses augmented reality to encourage you to sample some of the products on display. The ...
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What are Facebook Message Requests and how to see them: now you can contact anyone, even if you're not 'friends'
Facebook is making it easier to contact people via Messenger: all you need is their name. Now, when someone sends you ...
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Stolen Brazzers accounts cost as much as social security numbers on the Dark Web
You can buy pretty much anything on the dark web, but did you know a stolen Brazzers account sells for the same as someone's ...
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Facebook for Android now lets you save videos to watch offline
Facebook is battling poor internet connectivity by giving you the option to view videos offline.
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Littlebook puts Facebook on your Apple Watch to feed your social addiction
Facebook fiends can now take the social network everywhere they go with Littlebook, an unofficial Facebook client for the ...
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You can now add color to your Facebook posts
Facebook is today adding a small feature that's a big visual departure for the platform: you can now add background colors ...
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There's a hidden Instagram 'Other' inbox, too
Instagram Direct also has an Other inbox just like Facebook and Messenger. Did you miss any interesting messages?
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The mega guide to ideal image sizes for Facebook, LinkedIn and all your social media posts
How exactly should your image look so it fits in the News Feed, timeline, or stream? Here is a guide to ideal image sizes ...
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Facebook Messenger just made it easy to poll your friends
Facebook Messenger is getting a neat update today on Andriod and iOS, according to TechCrunch: you can now poll your friends. The ...
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Facebook Messenger now allows you to connect without connecting
Facebook is testing a new feature for its popular 'Messenger' platform. The feature, confirmed by BuzzFeed News today, ...
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Facebook serves 2 billion people — get them all on your side with this Facebook advertising course
You can learn how to leverage the weight of Facebook to drive users to your products and services with this Complete Facebook ...
