All posts tagged "facebook"
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NEWS
Facebook, Instagram To Ban White Nationalist And White Separatist Content
March 27, 2019Facebook officials announced Wednesday its decision to ban explicit praise, support or representation of white nationalism...
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Mass Surveillance
Technology Giants Didn’t Deserve Public Trust In The First Place
November 19, 2018Amazon may have been expecting lots of public attention when it announced where it would establish...
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NEWS
Facebook Bans Alex Jones, InfoWars Pages For Violating ‘Hate Speech Policies’
August 6, 2018Facebook has removed four pages belonging to the controversial right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones for “glorifying...
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Fake News
Whoopi Goldberg Torches Facebook CEO’s Defense Of Holocaust Deniers: ‘It’s A Lie! Take It Down!’
July 19, 2018The View’s Whoopi Goldberg ripped into Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg over an interview in which he...
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Fake News
How Artificial Intelligence Can Detect – And Create – Fake News
May 3, 2018When Mark Zuckerberg told Congress Facebook would use artificial intelligence to detect fake news posted on...
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DEMOCRACY
Trump-Linked Data Firm Cambridge Analytica Shuts Down After Facebook Data Scandal
May 2, 2018Cambridge Analytica, the data firm tied to the Trump campaign, announced Wednesday that it is shutting...
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DEMOCRACY
Whistleblower Claims Bannon Oversaw Cambridge Analytica’s Early Efforts To Collect Facebook Data: Report
March 21, 2018Chris Wylie, the former research director of the controversial data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica, told the...
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NEWS
Undercover Video Captures Trump’s Campaign Data Firm Admitting To Entrapping Politicians With Sex
March 19, 2018The CEO of Cambridge Analytica, the British data firm used by President Trump’s campaign, was caught...
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NEWS
Trump Campaign Data Firm Used Private Data Of 50 Million Facebook Users Without Permission In 2016: Report
March 17, 2018The Trump campaign’s data firm, Cambridge Analytica, harvested the private information of more than 50 million...
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Censorship
Facebook COO Slams FCC’s Vote To Kill Net Neutrality: It’s ‘Disappointing, Harmful’ To A ‘Free And Open Internet’
December 14, 2017Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg on Thursday blasted the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) decision to...
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NEWS
Facebook Will Allow Users To See Which Election Content They Liked Was Russian-Linked
November 22, 2017As part of its ongoing transparency efforts on Russian activity, Facebook revealed on Wednesday that it’s...
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Economic Democracy
Big Tech To Trump: US Will Lose $460.3 billion If ‘Dreamer’ Protections Are Ended
November 3, 2017More than 100 tech companies, including Google, Facebook, Uber and Lyft have signed onto an amicus...
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NEWS
Facebook: Russian-Backed Election Content Reached 126 Million Americans During 2016 Campaign
October 30, 2017An estimated 126 million Americans were exposed to Russian-backed content on Facebook during the 2016 campaign,...
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NEWS
Facebook, Reddit Begin Purging Pages For Racist Groups After Attack In Charlottesville
August 15, 2017Facebook and Reddit have begun removing pages and subreddits for racist groups following the deadly “Unite...