Taylor Swift's father, Scott Swift, reportedly deleted his personal Facebook account after receiving backlash for his purported conservative-leaning remarks on the social media site.
Steve's reported decision to shut off his page comes almost...
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Facebook has continued to do the most Facebooky of Facebook things. Faced with almost entirely baseless claims of "anti-conservative bias" in how it moderates content, Facebook claimed to be doing something useful: bringing in a big outside law firm...
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Facebook's Joel Hesch talks about the future and present for VR/AR.
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A woman made the "catch of a lifetime" when she reeled in a trout that appeared to have two mouths on a fishing trip. (Photo Credit: Knotty Boys Fishing / Facebook)
An angler’s “catch of the day” turned out to be the...
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French President Emmanuel Macron has defended France’s decision to impose a 3% tax on the local revenues of Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon.
The tax was nicknamed a GAFA tax after the initial letters of the main companies targeted…
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It’s one thing to try to keep personal information from Facebook. But what if a company is going to use it to save people’s lives?
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A new article, published by researchers from the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science and the Leiden University Centre of Linguistics in the journal PLoS ONE, shows that 50% of Dutch Facebook users are exposed to junk news at least once. In...
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Buzz60’s Elizabeth Keatinge tells us about Facebook’s new “clear history” tool.
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Soon you could get fewer familiar ads following you around the internet, or at least on Facebook. Facebook is launching a long-promised tool that lets you limit what the social network can gather about you on outside websites and apps. (Aug....
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Facebook’s plan to hire professional journalists instead of relying solely on algorithms to deliver news is a positive step but is unlikely to shake up an embattled media industry, analysts say. The social media giant said Tuesday it would...
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Ahh, a 20-something-year-old guy was over the house tonight. We almost got in a fight over VR. Tried to tell me something other than the Oculus Quest is better after seeing the Quests on the floor and declaring “I would never buy one of...
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It's not about the money, it's about the identifiers Analysis Facebook's proposed digital currency Libra, and its accompanying digital wallet Calibra, should be scrutinized not only by financial regulators – as lawmakers in the US and Europe...
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David and Eric Schwitzgebel have made a list of the 295 most cited philosophers in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. On Facebook, Harry commented:
Nussbaum is #10 on this list—not especially surprising. The next woman on the list is...
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Driven by Facebook, The Western Journal has had one of the biggest audiences in the news media, but little is known about the publication. Here’s what we found out.
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Startups racing to deploy rentable electric scooters around the world seem to be following Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s famous motto for disruption: Move fast and break things. Unfortunately for those startups, the things that break most often...
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If you’ve always wondered why ads from websites you’ve visited follow you on Facebook, that’s because they have tools like Login with Facebook, like and comment, and pixels. But you don’t really have something that would let you view and...
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Mastercard (NYSE: MA) is already a partner with Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) on its Libra cryptocurrency project, but it seems like the payments giant has even greater ambitions. In this segment from Industry Focus: Financials, host Jason Moser and...
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They don't want aliens. They want Spider-Man.
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There are many criticisms of Facebook’s size, power, and business model, but two stand out for the intensity with which they are usually discussed. One is that Facebook is a dystopian panopticon that monitors our...
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“There’s no truth to this post,” says Facebook spokesperson Stephanie Otway.
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