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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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Report: Bitcoin outperformed all other coins in Q2 2019
According to a recent report, Bitcoin increased its market dominance from 54.6 percent to 65 percent in Q2 2019.
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Facebook removes accounts used to distribute malware since 2014
Facebook has shut down more than 30 accounts that were found to be spreading malware through malicious links that claimed ...
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Research: The best way to stop the spread of fake photos is education
It can be hard to tell whether a picture is real. Consider, as the participants in our recent research did, these two images ...
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Secret US Border Patrol hate group exposed on Facebook
Investigative journalist A.C. Thompson from ProPublica today exposed a secret Facebook group for US Border Patrol agents ...
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Facebook revives its mobile data gathering program with a new app
Facebook today announced a new app called Study, that'll collect your data in exchange for monetary benefits.
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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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Moonday Mornings: Bitcoin flash-crashed to $75, SIM-swapping on the rise, and more
It’s time for another edition of Moonday Mornings! Hard Fork’s wrap-up of the weekend's top cryptocurrency and blockchain ...
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Facebook is so insanely big, it had to design a brand new DHCP server
In awe at the size of that server infrastructure. Absolute unit.
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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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Moonday Mornings: Banks pour $50M into blockchain, Bitcoin gets on CBS' 60 Minutes
In this weekend's top blockchain stories: Facebook sets up house for its cryptocurrency project in Geneva, and banks pour ...
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Facebook's approach to fighting fake news is admirable, but not sustainable
With the huge EU elections around the corner, the issue of fake news has started to crop up again in headlines -- and Facebook ...
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Facebook contract workers look at your private posts to help train its AI
A new report from Reuters has revealed how contract workers for Facebook and Instagram are looking at your private posts ...
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Q2 Digital Statshot 2019: TikTok peaks, Snapchat grows, and we can’t stop talking
It’s only been three months since I published our first round of Digital 2019 reports here on TNW, but our new Q2 Global ...
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How to mute spoilers on Twitter and Facebook
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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Facebook may soon let you chat with friends on mobile without Messenger
It's been years since Facebook booted out the messaging functionality from it's main app to boost Messenger, but now it might ...
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Facebook's AI prevents deceased users' profiles from popping up in your suggestions
It's hard to cope with the loss of a loved one, and it's harder when their profile pops up on Facebook as a suggestion, as ...
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Facebook is cracking down on fake accounts before India's election
The first phase of the Indian Assembly’s election kicks off on April 21, but the increase in propaganda has already begun. ...
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Apps are stealing your attention — here's how to break up with your phone
On average, people spend almost six hours on their phone everyday. But it's not all their fault, phones and apps are designed ...
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Facebook's reportedly been storing millions of user passwords in plain text since 2012
Facebook revelaed last night that it stored password of millions of users in plaintext. What's more shocking is that this ...
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Bitcoin scammers used Facebook ads to swindle Chinese businessmen out of $250K
Authorities have sentenced three cryptocurrency criminals for robbing $250,000 from a group of Chinese businessmen in Dubai. ...
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4 Facebook Ad tips for selling more e-commerce products overnight
When building an e-commerce brand, social media should play a vital role in helping you get the word out so you can reach ...
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Mark Zuckerberg plans to make Facebook more private with 6 key changes
Mark Zuckerberg wants to make Facebook less like a town square, and more like a living room. So he declares in a massive ...
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Facebook and Instagram will hide pages that spread 'vaccine misinformation'
I'd like to think that everyone who reads TNW knows that vaccines work. That they don't cause autism, as demonstrated time ...
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How to stop Facebook from tracking your location
Facebook is know to be notorious to track your data. You can at least limit the location data the social network collects ...
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What is a Facebook 'legacy contact' and why do you need one?
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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Facebook lets you search for pictures of your female friends, but not your male ones
Well, this sounds familiar.
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Why Germany wants to block Facebook's Messenger-Instagram-WhatsApp merger
Facebook made a splash recently when CEO Mark Zuckerberg's plans to integrate its messaging platforms on Instagram, Messenger, ...
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Facebook's totally not listening to you, its new ad disclosure feature screams desperately
Remember hearing about - or worse, feeling like - people seeing ads related to topics they've merely talked about with friends ...
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A look at Facebook.com's homepage over the last 15 years
It is a statement of fact that Facebook turned 15 today. You might call that a birthday. Perhaps Facebook's employees are ...
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Facebook convinced teens to sell their privacy for $20
Another day, another Facebook controversy
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Facebook now lets you create petitions for social causes
In the past few years, Facebook's been concentrating on community-based features like Candidate Info and Town Hall to increase ...
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Study shows Facebook users still don’t understand tracking
The Pew Research Center today released the results of its latest survey of Facebook users, this time about the ad categories ...
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5 of the worst security missteps by major tech companies in 2018
2018 marked the year that governments, businesses, and other organizations around the world started implementing GDPR — ...
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No, Samsung isn't pre-installing Facebook on your phone
Early this morning, Bloomberg reported that Samsung doesn't let users uninstall the Facebook app from some of its phones. ...
