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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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 ...
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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'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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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 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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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SurfSafe offers a browser-based solution to fake news
In the aftermath of a school shooting that claimed the lives of 14 students and three staff members, students like Emma González, ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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‘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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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 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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...
