Social Networks Stories for 2019

French Court Clears Social Media Tracking Plan in Tax Crackdown 37
Washington Post Writer Calls 2019 'The Year of OK Boomer', Calls for Inter-Generational Kindness 515
Would Social Media Have Made Life Worse For Richard Jewell? 81
Stack Exchange Apologizes, Offers 'Possible Reinstatement' To Moderator Removed Over Pronouns Policy 277
Facebook Messenger Now Requires a Facebook Account To Join 42
The Snail-Mail Card is Taking on More Significance in the Age of Social Media 20
Mike Bloomberg Is Plowing Millions of Dollars Into a Secretive Tech Firm Called Hawkfish 62
A Twitter App Bug Was Used To Match 17 Million Phone Numbers To User Accounts 5
Twitter Bans Animated PNG Files After Online Attackers Targeted Users With Epilepsy 78
Twitter Removes Nearly 6,000 Saudi-Backed Accounts For Platform Manipulation 28
Facebook, Twitter Shutter Pro-Trump Network That Used AI To Create Fake People and Push Conspiracies 136
Facebook Won't Use 2FA Numbers To Suggest Friends Anymore 20
Facebook is Building an Operating System So it Can Ditch Android 141
Instagram, Facebook Bans Influencers From Getting Paid To Promote Vaping, Tobacco, and Weapons 32
Facebook Is Still Prioritizing Scale Over Safety 21
Facebook Owns The 4 Most Downloaded Apps Of The Decade 69
Bank Employee Steals Cash, Then Posts Pics of It On Facebook and Instagram 78
37-Year-Old Mom Finds Instagram's Sex Predators By Pretending To Be 11 123
India Shuts Down Internet Once Again, This Time In Assam and Meghalaya 66
'Link in Bio' is a Slow Knife 63
Iran Banks Burned, Then Customer Accounts Were Exposed Online 47
If Logged Into Facebook, Oculus VR Data Will Now Be Used For Ads 36
YouTube Unveils a Stricter Harassment Policy 152
Twitter Is Funding Independent Effort To Develop an Open and Decentralized Standard For Social Media 58
Facebook Fired a Contractor Who Was Paid Thousands In Bribes To Reactivate Banned Ad Accounts 21
A Social Media Influencer Will Serve 14 Years in Prison After His Plot To Take Over a Website at Gunpoint Backfired 70
African Countries Are Struggling To Build Robust Identity Systems 72
Reddit Bans 61 Accounts, Citing 'Coordinated' Russian Campaign To Interfere In UK Vote 135
Social Media Platforms Leave 95 Percent of Reported Fake Accounts Up, Study Finds 32
Filmmakers Sue State Department Over Social Media Surveillance Rules 20
Facebook Sues Chinese Malware Operator For Abusing Its Ad Platform 9
Facebook Gives Workers a Chatbot to Appease That Prying Uncle 79
Google Photos Adds a Chat Feature To Its App 20
Should Twitter Delete the Accounts of Dead People? 113
The Rise and Fall of a Teenager's Massive Meme Empire 179
Jimmy Wales' New Social Network Skyrockets To 345,000 Members, Will Hire Journalists 132
Twitter Prepares For Huge Cull of Inactive Users 47
Zuckerberg's Quest to Explore Future Featured Mostly White Men 217
Facebook and Twitter Users' Data Exposed Due To Third-Party SDK Bug 10
Web Creator Tim Berners-Lee Launches Plan To 'Fix' the Internet 109
Sacha Baron Cohen Gave the Greatest Speech on Why Social Networks Need To Be Put On Check 194
Twitter Says It Will Let All Users Hide Replies To Tweets 49
Google Earth Gets Content Creation Tools For Geography-Focused Presentations 6
'Royalty-Free' Music Supplied By YouTube Results In Mass Video Demonetization 156
Google Maps Tests a Social Networking Feature 32
Leaked Russian Interference Report Raises Questions About Brexit, UK Election Security 174
A Jury of Random People Can Do Wonders For Facebook 90
Andrew Yang Wants To Tax Digital Ads, Launch a New Algorithm Regulator 126
Wikipedia's Co-Founder Takes On Facebook With Ad-Free Social Network 79
Instagram Tests Hiding Like Counts Globally 21
Facebook Says Government Demands For User Data Are at a Record High 31
Facebook Unites Payment Service Across Apps With Facebook Pay 15
Instagram Is Coming for TikTok's Head By Copying Its Best Features 21
Twitter Proposes Flagging Deepfakes, But Would Only Remove Content That Threatens Harm 16
Facebook Co-founder Chris Hughes Doesn't Recall Zuckerberg Discussing the Iraq War at Harvard 42
Mozilla Hits Google, Facebook For 'Microtargeting' Political Ads 31
Facebook Staff Lamented 'Unethical' Practices But Were Rebuffed 26
Facebook Sued by California Over User-Data Practices Subpoenas 4
Leaked Documents Show Facebook Leveraged User Data To Fight Rivals and Help Friends 22
Facebook Says 100 Software Developers May Have Improperly Accessed User Data 17
Digital Authoritarianism Is On the Rise Around the World, Report Warns 41
Adobe and Twitter Are Designing a System For Permanently Attaching Artists' Names To Pictures 62
Facebook Rebrands To 'FACEBOOK' As Calls For Government-Led Breakup Continue 62
'I Worked on Political Ads at Facebook. They Profit By Manipulating Us.' 190
Microsoft is Replacing MSDN and TechNet Forums With Microsoft Q&A 31
Black Salve Is A Dangerous Fake Cancer Cure, But It Continues To Flourish In Facebook Groups 163
US Opens National Security Investigation Into TikTok 30
Zuckerberg Doubles Down on Facebook Political Ads Policy After Twitter Ban 177
'OK Boomer' Is the New Retort To Older Generations 472
Facebook Permanently Deletes the Accounts of NSO Workers 48
Twitter Is Banning Political Ads 100
Dissent Erupts at Facebook Over Hands-Off Stance on Political Ads 123
Algorithms Will Be 'Driving the Majority of Facebook News,' Says Facebook 11
Jack Dorsey Criticizes Zuckerberg Over His Free-Speech Argument 120
Facebook Is Launching a News Section -- and Will Pay Some Publishers Millions 28
TikTok Raises National Security Concerns in Congress as Schumer, Cotton Ask for Federal Review 32
Twitter Says It's Better at Spotting Abusive Tweets Than Users 46
Maybe It's Not YouTube's Algorithm That Radicalizes People 341
Just 6% of US Adults On Twitter Account For 73% of Political Tweets, Study Finds 80
Facebook To Face $35 Billion Class-Action Lawsuit Over Misuse of Facial Recognition Data 23
US Senators Want Social Media Users To Be Able To Take Their Data With Them 52
'Codes of Conduct: Speech Bans Are Poor Strategy' 256
Facebook Pledges $1 Billion for California Housing 96
Firefox 70 Arrives With Social Tracking Blocked By Default 40
47 US Attorneys General Are Investigating Facebook For Antitrust Violations 40
Facebook Shuts Down New Accounts From Iran and Russia Spreading Disinformation 113
New Facebook Features Fight Election Lies Everywhere But Ads 47
Russian Cyber-Espionage Group Controlled Its Malware Partly Through Reddit Posts 18
Imgur Won't Support Reddit's NSFW Communities Anymore Because They Put Its 'Business At Risk' 91
Indians Are Using TikTok To Learn English 16
Facebook Portal Sales Are 'Very Low' 40
New Bill Promises an End To Our Privacy Nightmare, Jail Time To CEOs Who Lie 166
Machine Learning Can't Flag False News, New Studies Show 42
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Says He Fears 'Erosion of Truth' But Defends Allowing Politicians To Lie in Ads 157
Youth Suicide Rate Increased 56% in Decade, CDC Says 172
Yahoo Groups Is Winding Down and All Content Will Be Permanently Removed 82
UK Drops Plans For Online Pornography Age Verification System 99
Twitter Says It Will Restrict Users From Retweeting World Leaders Who Break Its Rules 76
Would You Give Up Google For $17,000 a Year? The Federal Reserve Wants To Know 140
Inside Mark Zuckerberg's Private Meetings With Conservative Pundits 183
Children 'Interested in' Gambling and Alcohol, According To Facebook 39
Twitter Took Phone Numbers for Security and Used Them for Advertising 63
Instagram's Following Activity Tab Is Going Away 15
Consumer Expert Argues Tech Addiction Is The User's Responsibility 133
Gizmodo's Disappearing Story Explains Why No One Trusts Facebook 90
How Reddit's CEO/Co-Founder Plans To 'Clean Up' Reddit 196
Facebook Removes Hundreds of Propaganda Accounts Targeting Iran and Qatar 18
EU Court: Facebook Can Be Forced To Remove Content Worldwide 173
Stack Exchange Removes Moderator For Preferred Pronouns Policy 800
Kamala Harris Asks Twitter To Suspend Donald Trump For 'Civil War' and Whistleblower Tweets 567
Twitter Outage Takes Down TweetDeck, Affects Images and DMs 36
YouTube is Experimenting With Ways To Make Its Algorithm Even More Addictive 71
Should We Build A Publicly-Funded Social Media Platform? 110
'OK' is Now a Hate Symbol, the ADL Says 495
Facebook Will Test Hiding 'Likes' On Its Own Site 26
Facebook Confirms Its 'Standards' Don't Apply To Politicians 89
Facebook Secures Digital Rights For ICC Cricket Events 32
Trolls Are Swarming Young Climate Activists Online 626
How TikTok Censors Videos That Do Not Please Beijing 23
Brain Research On Boys' Preference For Video Games and Girls' For Social Media 161
In Hong Kong, Protesters and Police Are Now Doxxing Each Other 46
Authorities Consider Taking Legal Action Against Facebook Over Storm Area 51 Event 87
Instagram's Opioid Recovery Hashtags Are Full of Drug Dealers 45
YouTube Creators May Lose Verified Badges As Verification Process Becomes Stricter 45
AI Can't Protect Us From Deepfakes, Argues New Report 36
Facebook Plans Launch of Its Own 'Supreme Court' For Handling Takedown Appeals 27
Facebook Contractors Have Been Listening To 'Hey Portal' Clips 13
Facebook Expands Definition of Terrorist Organizations To Limit Extremism 145
France Took One Look At Facebook's Cryptocurrency and Said, 'Hell, Non' 94
Twitter's Stenciled San Francisco Street Tweets Illegal Graffiti, City Says 108
Period Tracker Apps Used By Millions Of Women Are Sharing Incredibly Sensitive Data With Facebook 62
YouTube Creators Are Turning the Site Into a Podcast Network 25
Web Scraping Doesn't Violate Anti-Hacking Law, Appeal Court Rules 32
Dozens of Google Employees Say They Were Retaliated Against For Reporting Harassment 186
The Fake Town Where Everybody Knows Your Name 58
US To Collect Social Media Profiles From Immigrants, Asylum Seekers, and Refugees 85
Facebook Wants To Be the Hot New Dating App 87
Twitter Disables SMS-to-Tweet Feature After Its CEO Got Hacked Last Week 20
Facebook is Making Its Own Deepfakes and Offering Prizes For Detecting Them 21
A Huge Database of Facebook Users' Phone Numbers Found Online 36
Facebook Brings Face Recognition To All Users, Discontinues 'Tag Suggestions' 26
Facebook Says it May Remove Like Counts 80
Google to Pay More Than $150 Million in YouTube Privacy Case 8
The Plan To Use Fitbit Data To Stop Mass Shootings Is One of the Scariest Proposals Yet 244
Social Media Stress Can Lead To Social Media Addiction, Study Finds 17
FTC Is Investigating Juul's Marketing Practices 47
US Border Officials Are Increasingly Denying Entry To Travelers Over Others' Social Media 191
Facebook Succeeds In Blocking German FCO's Privacy-Minded Order Against Combining User Data 28
Facebook Bans Ads From The Epoch Times 42
Facebook Said It Would Give Detailed Data To Academics. They're Still Waiting. 16
YouTube Pressured To Ban Chinese State Media Ads That Spread Misinformation About Protesters 29
Flawed Algorithms Are Grading Millions of Students' Essays 90
You Can Finally See All Of The Info Facebook Collected About You From Other Websites 35
Twitter Blocks State-Controlled Media Outlets From Advertising On Its Social Network 100
Twitter is Blocked in China, But Chinese State News Agency is Buying Promoted Tweets To Portray Hong Kong Protestors as Violent 123
Trauma Counselors Were Pressured To Divulge Confidential Information About Facebook Moderators, Internal Letter Claims 45
Twitter Leads $100M Round in Top Indian Regional Social Media Platform ShareChat 1
Watch Out Google, YouTubers Are Unionizing 116
FBI Seeks To Monitor Facebook, Oversee Mass Social Media Data Collection 105
Facebook Paid Contractors To Transcribe Users' Audio Chats 51
YouTube Tests Bigger Thumbnails 26
Researchers Show How Europe's Data Protection Laws Can Dox People 52
White House Proposal Would Have FCC and FTC Police Alleged Social Media Censorship 140
Trump Asks Social Media Companies To Develop Pre-Crime Algorithms 333
Twitter Fesses Up To More Adtech Leaks 18
iOS 13 Privacy Feature Will Force Total Overhaul For Facebook Apps 68
Twitter Users Are Escaping Online Hate by Switching Profiles To Germany 335
Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp Suffer Outages Again 39
Facebook To Add Its Name To Instagram, WhatsApp 62
FTC Antitrust Probe of Facebook Scrutinizes Its Acquisitions 19
Is Facebook Planning on Backdooring WhatsApp? 131
Facebook Says It Was 'Not Our Role' To Remove Fake News During Australian Election 138
New Bill Would Ban Autoplay Videos and Endless Scrolling 247
EFF Argues For 'Empowerment, Not Censorship' Online 62
Is The Internet Making Us Better Writers? 165
Facebook Revenue Beats Estimates; Discloses Antitrust Probe 11
Guy Who Built Twitter's Retweet Button Admits Maybe That Was a Really Bad Idea 98
Facebook Ends Friend Data Access For Microsoft and Sony, the Last 2 of Its Legacy Partners, Under FTC Deal 12
Facebook Design Flaw Let Thousands of Kids Join Chats With Unauthorized Users 49
Is Russia Trying to Deanonymize Tor Traffic? 85
Google and Facebook Might Be Tracking Your Porn History, Researchers Warn 161
Social Media, But Not Video Games, Linked To Depression In Teens, Says Study 147
Twitter Rebuilds Website For 'Write Once, Run Everywhere' Philosophy 63
Review: 'Solid State' by Jonathan Coulton 47
Google Tries Social Networking Again, Challenging Facebook Events 58
America's FBI Wants To Build a Social Media-Monitoring Tool 114
FTC Approves Roughly $5 Billion Facebook Settlement 65
Twitter is Down [Update] 160
LinkedIn and the Art of Boastful Self-Promotion 52
Instagram To Notify Users Comments Might Be Offensive Before They Are Posted 132
How Facebook Fought Fake News About Facebook 52
Wikipedia Co-founder Slams Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter and the 'Appalling' Internet 97
Microsoft Is Teasing Windows 1.0 and Other 1980s Software 67
Facebook Says It's 'Working' To Resolve Outages Across Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger 31
India's Reliance Jio Partners With Facebook To Launch Literacy Program For First Time Internet Users 19
Facebook Downgrades Posts That Promote Miracle Cures 87
Facebook Abused To Spread Remote Access Trojans Since 2015 25
Wikipedia Co-Founder Calls For a Social Media Strike July 4-5 138
Italy Stings Facebook With $1.1 Million Fine For Cambridge Analytica Data Misuse 65
Here's Why Some Users Are Getting More LinkedIn Notifications 28
Facebook: Our Terms of Service Are Less Confusing Now. 62
Twitter Says it Will Label Tweets From Trump and Other Leaders That Break Its Rules 473
India Reportedly Wants To Build Its Own WhatsApp For Government Communications 36
Reddit Quarantines Pro-Trump Forum Because of Threats 743
In a World First, Facebook To Give Data on Hate Speech Suspects To French Courts 116
YouTube Looks To Demonetization As Punishments For Major Creators, But It Doesn't Work 326
US Senators Want Social Media Firms To Tell Users How Much Their Data Is Worth 64
When Myspace Was King, Employees Abused a Tool Called 'Overlord' To Spy on Users 45
The Online Advertising Industry Is Breaking the Law, Says UK Watchdog 19
Facebook Adds New Limits To Address the Spread of Hate Speech in Sri Lanka and Myanmar 41
Millions of Business Listings On Google Maps Are Fake -- and Google Profits 47
Facebook Usage Has Collapsed After Privacy Scandals, Data Shows 109
Fintech CEO Claims Facebook 'Ripped off' His Bank Start-up's Logo For Cryptocurrency Project 69
Twitter Will Remove Precise Location Tagging In Tweets, Citing Lack of Use 5
Fortnite Makers Grilled By UK Politicians Over Game Safety 132
Facebook Content Moderators Break NDAs To Expose Shocking Working Conditions 169
YouTube, Under Fire, Considers Major Changes To Kids' Content 69
Facebook's Calibra Is a Secret Weapon For Monetizing Its New Cryptocurrency 80
Facebook Token Runs Into Instant Political Opposition in Europe 96
First Amendment Constraints Don't Apply To Private Platforms, Supreme Court Affirms 337
Yahoo Japan Is Under Fire for Its China-Like Rating System 41
Facebook's New Cryptocurrency, Libra, Gets Big Backers 127
Facebook Collected Device Data On 187,000 Users Using Banned Snooping 45
Jordan Peterson Announces Free Speech, Anti-Censorship Platform 'Thinkspot' 774
Facebook Worries Emails Could Show Zuckerberg Knew of Questionable Privacy Practices 101
WhatsApp is Finally Going After Outside Firms That Are Abusing Its Platform 36
A Deepfake of Mark Zuckerberg Is Testing Facebook's Fake Video Policies 118
Facebook's New Study App Pays Adults For Data After Teen Scandal 25
Facebook Turned Off Search Features Used To Catch War Criminals, Child Predators, And Other Bad Actors 84
Bowing To Pressure, YouTube Will Reconsider Its Harassment Policies 752
Facebook Set To Reveal Own Cryptocurrency Later This Month, Report Says 97
US Demands Social Media Details From Visa Applicants 378
FTC Gets Jurisdiction for Possible Facebook Antitrust Probe 45
Russian Trolls Fueled Anti-Vaccination Debate On Twitter, Study Finds 209
Purism Introduces A New Social Network Named 'Librem Social' 114
Facebook Reportedly Thinks There's No 'Expectation of Privacy' On Social Media 100
Fake LinkedIn Profiles Are Impossible To Detect 62
DIY Facial Recognition For Porn Is a Dystopian Disaster 532
Twitter Has Started Researching Whether White Supremacists Belong on Twitter 543
US Navy Wants 350 Billion Social Media Posts 109
CrossFit Storms Off Facebook and Instagram 223
Neal Stephenson Says Social Media Is Close To A 'Doomsday Machine' 59
Parents Are Spending Thousands On YouTube Camps That Teach Kids How To Be Famous 134
Zuckerberg Met With Winklevoss Twins About Facebook Developing Cryptocurrency, Report Says 43
Deepfakes Can Now Be Made From a Single Photo 64
Facebook Removed 2.2 Billion Fake Accounts This Year 50
Mark Zuckerberg Dismisses Calls To Break Up Facebook 60
Indonesia Restricts WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram Usage Following Deadly Riots 56
Report Finds Some Users Can't Opt Out of Facebook's Face Recognition 83
Millennials and Gen Z Are Increasingly Pessimistic About Their Lives, Survey Finds 420

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