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    Big relief for 2.41b users after Facebook rolls out face recognition

    04 Sep 2019

    Face recognition feature will replace the earlier "Tag Suggestions" settings that notified you if someone uploaded a photo and automatically tagged you in it.

    2020 hopefuls seek crackdown on white nationalism

    14 Sep 2019

    The gunman who killed 20 people in El Paso, Texas, posted his white supremacist manifesto on the right-wing forum 8chan. The man who massacred 51 people at a Christchurch, New Zealand, mosque streamed video of the attack live on Facebook. And the shooter who gunned down three people at the garlic festival in Gilroy, California, appeared to upload an Instagram post referencing a white nationalist author just hours before he opened fire.

    Google agrees to pay $170m fine for collecting YouTube data from kids

    04 Sep 2019

    The settlement with the Federal Trade Commission and the New York state Attorney General is the largest amount in a case involving the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, a 1998 federal law, officials said.

    WHO welcomes Facebook pledge to curb anti-vaccine misinformation

    05 Sep 2019

    Misinformation about vaccination has spread far on social media in many countries in recent years — including during major vaccination campaigns to prevent polio in Pakistan and to immunise against yellow fever in South America.

    Less said the better

    13 May 2019

    In the modern world of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and many other apps that I also don’t use there seems to be an increasing number of people insulting each other, often anonymously. An insult, even just one word can cause so much damage. Most insults are intentional although perhaps perversely

    Racism runs deeper than FB’s algorithm

    30 Mar 2019

    Every citizen of a multicultural background breathed a sigh of relief when Facebook announced that it would – finally – extend their ban on hate speech to include white nationalists. This decision is overdue and welcome.

    Singapore’s bid to muzzle fake news online comes under fire

    09 May 2019

    Facebook, Twitter and Google have been under fire all over the world for not doing enough to police their platforms for misinformation. The Singaporean government thinks it has a solution: a law that imposes jail time and hundreds of thousands of dollars in potential fines for posting or failing to correct what it calls “online falsehoods” that harm the public interest.

    Facebook is entitled to enforce its terms of service

    08 May 2019

    Not to express sympathy for Mark Zuckerberg, but Facebook has reached the point where it just cannot win. Ever. Period. On Thursday, the company announced that it was permanently banning a handful of people who had used Facebook and its subsidiary Instagram to push reprehensible notions into the world.

    Silicon Valley is a minefield for 2020 hopefuls

    03 Apr 2019

    Only three years ago, Silicon Valley was riding so high that Hillary Clinton seemed truly stumped when asked on “The Ellen Show” whether she›d rather have George Clooney as a running mate or Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

    Social media companies are too important to ignore, but government regulation is full of dangers

    09 Jun 2019

    Conservatives remain convinced that the tech industry is biased against them. They point to evidence that Facebook, Twitter, Google and YouTube are staffed disproportionately by liberals, a fact that nobody seriously denies. In a fascinating essay for the New Atlantis, Adam White argues that there is a deep alignment between their corporate culture and the assumptions of modern liberalism.

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