By the end of 2019, Facebook promises to establish an independent body to handle appeals of its content moderation decisions. That intention follows an earlier suggestion by Mark Zuckerberg that Facebook might establish a “Supreme Court” of...
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<p>The number of Facebook’s enemies on the left is growing, and they’re making more and more demands including that CEO Mark Zuckerberg resign. A coalition of 31 left-wing groups, including the controversial Southern Poverty Law...
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<p>Facebook is more concerned about protecting Palestinians from hate speech than about hosting terrorist propaganda on its site.</p>
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Full disclosure: Like most news and politics websites, Crooks and Liars has an auto-feed to post our content to social media including Facebook. This post is to let people know what's going on and why the NAACP is calling for the boycott. I am...
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Because the 2016 election is forever on repeat in the minds all of the Washington establishment, we are once again forced to recall Russia’s prolific Facebook activity, brought by way of a new pair of Senate Intelligence Committee...
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Earlier this month, some Facebook users noticed something odd: bitcoin mining company Bitmain seemed to be posting in the comments of one of its posts, advertising some sort of “partnership” tied to bitcoin and requesting a cryptocurrency...
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The NBA has eliminated Twitter and Facebook voting The NBA announced that it is eliminating Twitter and Facebook All-Star voting this year in favor of an exclusive partnership with Google. Fans will now be able to vote for All-Star starters only via...
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The report shows improvements on tackling problems like false information, fake accounts and voter suppression.
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The Hootsuite CEO cites six trends that will change how businesses use social media in the coming year.
To say 2018 was a tumultuous year for social media is an understatement. Simmering issues with privacy and data integrity came to a boil at...
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A group of 31 activist organizations has called on Facebook Chairman Mark Zuckerberg to step down following new reports on Russian interference in U.S. politics.
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2017 wasn't great for Facebook. The company spent most of the year explaining how it exposed 126 million Americans to thousands of Russian-linked pages, which were part of the Kremlin's efforts to meddle in the 2016 US presidential...
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Nation becomes the latest to go it alone as EU talks stall France will start levying charges on tech giants from 1 January 2019, making it the latest nation to go it alone on a digital sales tax.…
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The son of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Yair Netanyahu, was suspended from Facebook for a 24 hour period over comments he made on the platform about Palestinians needing to leave Israel.
The 27-year-old Netanyahu was apparently...
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An Ohio police officer's Facebook message to an 18-year-old ticketed for driving 100 mph is going viral.
The North Ridgeville officer
wrote Sunday that "I'd like to believe that you were minutes away from creating an unspeakable Christmas...
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Artificial intelligence has proved effective at keeping nudity and pornography off of Facebook. But recognizing hate speech and bullying is a much tougher task.
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Hi, friends. I thought we could use a feel good story that is more than lip service to those of us who have children with special needs. I'm in a Facebook group for families with children with any sort of disability or diagnosis, from young to...
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According to a Pew Research poll, 45% of U.S. adults get at least some of their news from Facebook, with half of that amount using Facebook as their only news outlet. Algorithms on social media pick what people read. There's worry that social media...
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The HTC Desire 12s was announced on Facebook, and, while its price tag is rather attractive, its specs are really modest.
The post HTC Desire 12s announced as a budget smartphone with modest specs appeared first on Pocketnow.
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Yair Netanyahu, the son of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, was yesterday banned from Facebook for posting anti-Muslim content.
The saga began on Thursday after Yair Netanyahu wrote on Facebook that: “There will not be peace here [in...
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A new report says that social media companies have evaded or been misleading about claims that Russian efforts on their platforms tried to discourage voting.
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