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A Q&A with the author of one of our mostly hotly anticipated books of 2020
Read More »‘Facebook: The Inside Story’ author Steven Levy on how the company compares to Apple and Google
The Bloomberg campaign’s social media stunts keep backfiring
Testing the limits of what tech platforms will allow doesn’t seem to be getting the candidate very far
Read More »Google is indexing WhatsApp group chat links, making even private groups discoverable
A Twitter user discovered the flaw that would let anyone join any WhatsApp group chat
Read More »Facebook’s proposed regulations are just things it’s already doing
And yet they’re still better than what some governments are proposing
Read More »Facebook cancels global marketing conference due to the coronavirus outbreak
There were 4,000 people expected to attend
Read More »Why platforms aren’t taking down deceptive political videos
Not every meme is an epistemological crisis
Read More »How to use Firefox’s tools to protect your privacy while browsing
Including experimental fingerprinting protection
Read More »The NFL account hijackers just compromised Facebook’s Twitter and Instagram accounts
OurMine is taking credit for the hacks
Read More »As platforms get better at detecting child abuse videos, they’re finding more of them
Nearly 70 million images of child abuse were reported to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in 2019
Read More »Facebook’s trust problem isn’t about being understood
Mark Zuckerberg says people need to understand what the company stands for. The problem is that they already do
Read More »Facebook is putting a surprising restriction on its independent oversight board
At launch, board members will decide only which posts were removed in error — not which bad posts should come down
Read More »Misinformation about the coronavirus is threatening to overwhelm tech platforms
Hoaxes are spreading quickly — are Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter up to the challenge?
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