Social Networks Stories for 2016

Google and Facebook Dominate The List of 2016's Top Ten Apps 37
Facebook Buys Data From Third-Party Brokers To Fill In User Profiles 116
Seattle Man Accused of Using Social Media To Set Up Fake Porn Agency 215
Jack Dorsey Says Twitter Needs An Edit Function 75
Facebook's Safety Check Activated For Fake Bangkok Bombing 24
Turkey Says It's Investigating 10,000 Social Network Users 83
Microsoft Could Be First Tech Company To Reach Trillion-Dollar Market Value: Analyst 232
Twitter Admits It Recently Overcharged For Ads 24
How Social Isolation Is Killing Us 297
US Government Begins Asking Foreign Travelers About Social Media 121
After Insisting For Years That Facebook Is Not a Media Company, Zuckerberg Says Just Not a 'Traditional' One 52
Government Requests For Facebook User Data Up 27 Percent in First Half of 2016 19
White House: US Needs a Stronger Social Safety Net To Help Workers Displaced by Robots 635
Using Multiple Social Networks May Lead To Depression and Anxiety, Says Study 119
Twitter Will Hand Over Data On the User Who Sent a Seizure-Inducing Tweet To a Journalist 492
Egypt Has Blocked Encrypted Messaging App Signal 44
EU Accuses Facebook Of Giving Misleading Information During WhatsApp Takeover 27
Mark Zuckerberg Demos Jarvis, His Own Home AI Assistant 100
Facebook Messenger Launches 6-Screen Group Video Chat 16
Turkey Blocks Tor's Anonymity Network 74
LinkedIn Warns 9.5 Million Lynda Users About Database Breach 35
Are Remote Offices Becoming The New Normal? 250
Germany Threatens To Fine Facebook Over Hate Speech 321
Facebook Is Clamping Down On Fake News, Partners With Fact Checkers To Flag Stories 415
Instagram Has Doubled Its Monthly Active User Base in Two Years 18
Twitter Built a Messaging App But Never Released It 31
Microsoft Formally Introduces Zo, Its Latest AI-Powered Chatbot 56
Twitter Reinstates White Nationalist Leader's Account 470
Twitter Cuts API Access For Media Sonar, Spy Tool Used To Target Black Lives Matter 104
Facebook Discloses New Measurement Errors, Continues To Hone Its Math 36
US Presidential Election Was Most 'Talked About' Topic In 2016, Says Facebook 88
Facebook Begins Asking Users To Rate Articles' Use of 'Misleading Language' 113
EU Threatens Twitter And Facebook With Possible 'Hate Speech' Laws 373
Are We Seeing Propaganda About Russian Propaganda? 335
UK Health Secretary Urges Social Media Companies To Block Cyberbullying And Underaged Sexting 71
Of 8 Tech Companies, Only Twitter Says It Would Refuse To Help Build Muslim Registry For Trump 588
Facebook Knows What You're Streaming 100
Facebook Developing AI To Flag Offensive Live Videos 104
Facebook Is Bringing Games Like Pac-Man, Space Invaders To Messenger and Your News Feed 22
CNN Acquires Social-Video Startup Beme, Co-Founded By YouTube Star Casey Neistat 62
EU's Law Enforcement Agency Closes 4,500 Websites Peddling Fake Brands 72
Newest Skype For Linux Enables SMS Text Messages From The Desktop 177
Crowdsourced Volunteers Search For Solutions To Fake News 270
Delete Yourself From Many Internet Sites By Pressing This Button 46
False Porn-on-CNN Report Shows How Quickly Fake News Spreads 158
Microsoft Set To Win EU Approval for LinkedIn Buy 24
Facebook Said To Create Censorship Tool To Get Back Into China 45
Facebook's Latest Experiment: Helping You Find Free Wi-Fi Hotspots 32
Facebook's Solar-Powered Drone Under Investigation After 'Accident' 45
Instagram Launches Disappearing Live Video and Messages 18
China Says Terrorism, Fake News Impel Greater Global Internet Curbs 143
'Quit Social Media. Your Career May Depend on It.' 186
EFF Report Finds 74% Of Censorship News Stories Are About Facebook 75
Spammers Compromised Popular Twitter Accounts Including Viacom And Microsoft Xbox 23
Snopes.com Editor on Fake News: Social Media Is Not the Problem 624
Mark Zuckerberg Announces Facebook Will Fight Fake News -- Next To An Ad With Fake News 149
LinkedIn-Russia: US Says Concerned Over Decision to Block Professional Networking Site 95
German Minister: Facebook Should Be Treated Like a Media Company Rather Than a Technology Platform 117
LinkedIn Blocked By Russian Government 68
Facebook Stops Collecting WhatsApp User Data in Europe After Government Pressure 24
Facebook Users Interacted Most With Articles From Fox News, CNN and Breitbart In Month Leading Up To Nov 10 212
Twitter Suspends American Far-Right Activists' Accounts 978
Facebook Finds More Ad-Metric Errors, Vows Clarity About Fixes 11
Cybersecurity CEO Gets Fired After Threatening To Kill Trump On Facebook 497
The FBI Got Its Hands on Data That Twitter Wouldn't Give the CIA 76
WhatsApp, Used By Over One Billion People, Gets Video Calling Feature 56
Twitter Says It's Cracking Down on Hate Speech 427
Facebook Disputes Gizmodo Report, Says It Never Built and Withheld Any News Feed Changes Based on Their Political Impact 68
Google Surfaces Fake News About Election Results 243
Internet Freedom Wanes As Governments Target Messaging, Social Apps 60
Facebook's Fight Against Fake News Was Undercut by Fear of Conservative Backlash 470
Hack Exposes 412 Million Accounts on AdultFriendFinder Sites 78
Microsoft Survey Shows Negative Online Interactions Affect People In Real Life 60
Facebook Bug Tells Users They Are Dead 62
Mark Zuckerberg Says Fake News on Facebook Affecting the Election Is a 'Crazy Idea' 232
Facebook To Stop Ads that Target, Exclude Races 143
Instagram Brings Mentions, Links, and Boomerang To Stories 4
Facebook on its Fake News Problem: 'There's So Much More We Need To Do' 284
Donald Trump Won Because of Facebook 499
Ask Slashdot: Should Web Browsers Have 'Fact Checking' Capability Built-In? 240
Facebook Puts Deep Learning in the Palm of Your Hand 46
Twitter May Save Vine by Selling it 62
US President Barack Obama Criticizes Facebook of Spreading Fake Stories 436
Facebook Users Sue Over Alleged Racial Discrimination In Housing, Job Ads 177
Teenagers In Macedonia Launch Fake Pro-Trump Sites To Earn Money 142
Turkey Doubles Down On Censorship With Block On VPNs, Tor 99
Munich Court To Try Facebook's Zuckerberg For Inciting Hatred 179
Turkey Blocks Access To Twitter, WhatsApp, YouTube, and Facebook 94
Judge Refuses To Block New York 'Ballot Selfie' Law 248
Facebook Deletes Music Piracy Groups Following Complaints 26
UK Auto Insurer Will Use Facebook Data To Set Premium 95
Instagram's New Shoppable Photos Are a Glimpse At Its E-Commerce Future 11
Facebook Needs To Protect Human Rights Issue, Civil Groups Say 47
People Who Use Facebook Live Longer, Study Finds 122
'Armies' of Twitter Bots Bolster Both The Trump And Clinton Campaigns 214
Facebook Lets Advertisers Exclude Users By Race 197
Lawsuit Seeks To Block New York Ban On 'Ballot Selfies' 317
Twitter Is Cutting 9% of Its Global Workforce 90
Latest WikiLeaks Reveal Suggests Facebook Is Too Close For Comfort With Clinton 437
Twitter Plans To Cut About 300 Jobs As Soon As This Week: Bloomberg 105
Facebook Employees Tried To Remove Trump Posts As Hate Speech 235
Steve Ballmer Says Microsoft Tried To Buy Facebook For $24 Billion 67
Facebook Bans Animated Breast Cancer Awareness Video Showing Circle-Shaped Breasts 99
Nurses In Australia Face Punishment For Promoting Anti-Vaccination Messages Via Social Media 656
Hillary Clinton's Campaign Creates Way To Make Money From Donald Trump's Tweets 331
Mark Zuckerberg Defends Peter Thiel's Trump Ties In Internal Memo 562
Ethiopia's State of Emergency Makes Posting To Facebook a Crime 38
Tomorrow's Wars Will Be Livestreamed 75
More Performers Are Demanding Audiences Lock Up Their Phones 552
Facebook Now Lets You Use Google Cast or AirPlay To Stream Video On Your TV 31
The Washington Post Tracked Facebook's Trending Topics For 3 Weeks, Found 5 Fake Stories and 3 Inaccurate Articles 113
Google Research Promotes Equality In Machine Learning, Doesn't Mention Age 149
Facebook Launches 'Workplace' So You Can Use Facebook At Work For Work 78
Dropbox, Google Drive, GitHub and Microsoft OneDrive Cloud Services Blocked In Turkey 75
CIA 'Siren Servers' Can Predict Social Uprisings Several Days Before They Happen 174
Facebook Wins 'Big Brother' Award in Belgium After Being Declared Worst Privacy Villain 37
Facebook Says a 'Technical Issue' Caused Drugs, Animals and Other Illegal Listings To Flood Its New Craigslist Competitor 42
Yahoo Insiders Believe Hackers Could Have Stolen Over 1 Billion Accounts 125
Facebook 'Messenger Day' Is the Chat App's New Snapchat Stories Clone 13
Saudi Arabian Teen Arrested For Online Videos With American Blogger 213
Facebook at Work To Report For Duty Next Month 83
Comey Denies Clinton Email 'Reddit' Cover-Up 459
Facebook Told To Stop Taking Data From German WhatsApp Users 39
YouTube-MP3 Ripping Site Sued By IFPI, RIAA and BPI 310
Trump Takes On 'Crooked Hillary' With Snapchat Geofilter 136
97% of the Top Companies Have Leaked Credentials Online 21
Snapchat's 10-Second-Video Glasses Are Real And Cost $130 Bucks 92
VR Devs Pull Support For Oculus Rift Until Palmer Luckey Steps Down 657
Indian Students Score a Partial Win in Facebook Privacy Dispute 47
Salesforce, Google, Microsoft, Verizon Are In Talks With Twitter For a Potential Acquisition 65
Facebook Inflated Video Viewing Stats For Two Years 49
Oculus Founder Palmer Luckey Is Secretly Funding Trump's Meme Machine 867
Oversight Orders Reddit To Preserve Deleted Posts In Clinton Investigation 382
Reddit Brings Down North Korea's Entire Internet 137
Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan Announce $3 Billion Initiative To 'Cure All Diseases' 161
Twitter No Longer Counts Photos, GIFs, Videos Toward 140-Character Limit 29
Laurene Jobs Awards $10M To Pet Charter School Network of Zuckerberg, Gates 51
A Woman Is Suing Her Parents For Posting Embarrassing Childhood Photos To Facebook 412
None of Your Pixelated or Blurred Information Will Stay Safe On The Internet 139
YouTube Gets Its Own Social Network With Launch of YouTube Community 73
Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg On 'Napalm Girl' Photo: 'We Don't Always Get it Right' 196
Instagram Rolls Out 'Keyword Moderation Tool' That Will Filter Out Offensive Comments 220
Twitter Will Extend Its 140 Character Limit On September 19th 135
Yelp Is Not Liable For Negative Rating 'Stars' On Website, Says Appeals Court 97
Facebook Is Collaborating With The Israeli Government To Determine What Should Be Censored 232
China's Expensive Super Particle Collider Jeopardized By Criticism 141
Facebook Features 9/11 Conspiracy Theory as 'Trending' 251
Who Is Getting Left Behind In the Internet Revolution? 112
Yelp Launches Public Bug Bounty Program 14
Instagram Is Killing Photo Maps 36
Fugitive Arrested After Using 'Wanted' Poster As His Facebook Profile Pic 89
Facebook Engineers Crash Data Centers In Real-World Stress Test 52
Creators Call Out YouTube For Demonetizing Videos 193
Revived Lawsuit Says Twitter DMs Are Like Handing ISIS a Satellite Phone 197
Study: 33% of Facebook Users Want Less News In Their Feed 95
Facebook Lets Users Prompt Danger Alert 19
Facebook Is Telling the World It's Not a Media Company, But It Might Be Too Late 47
Facebook Removes Fake Article About Megyn Kelly From Trending Topics 116
'Social Media ID, Please?' Proposed US Law Greeted With Anger 220
Eavesdropping On Tinder: Researcher Demonstrates Man-in-the-Middle Attacks 19
Twitter Is Working On Anti-Harassment Keyword Filtering Tool, Says Report 204
Facebook Says Humans Won't Write Its Trending Topic Descriptions Anymore 76
Researchers Create Algorithm That Diagnoses Depression From Your Instagram Feed 84
YouTube Plans To Bring Photos, Polls, and Text To Its Video Service 22
Facebook Is Testing Autoplaying Video With Sound 152
Sony Tries To Remove News Articles About PlayStation 4 Slim Leak From The Internet 85
Ashley Madison Security Protocols Violated Canada, Austrialia Privacy Laws 29
US Customs and Border Protection Wants To Know Who You Are On Twitter 348
Twitter Announces New Blocking and Filtering Features 119
Twitter Has Suspended 235,000 Accounts Since February For Promoting Terrorism 132
WSJ: Facebook's Point System Fails To Close Diversity Gap 415
Your Political Facebook Posts Aren't Changing How Your Friends Think 399
Metropolitan Police To Target Online Hate Crime and Abuse 161
LinkedIn Sues 100 Individuals For Scraping User Data From the Site 112
Former Twitter Employees: 'Abuse Problem' Comes From Their Culture Of Free Speech 465
Wild Abuse Allegations Taint Indiegogo Helmet Maker Skully 84
Google Play Store Drops Google+ Integration 45
Cracking The Code On Trump Tweets 330
Tor Promises Not To Build Backdoors Into Its Services 69
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo Secretly Censored Abusive Responses To President Obama, Says Report 308
Twitter Is Not Legally Responsible For The Rise of ISIS, Rules California District Court 140
Nicholas Carr Says Tech 'Utopia Is Creepy' 213
Facebook Will Force Advertising On Ad-Blocking Users 534
Facebook Plans Commercial Launch of Rural WiFi in India 19
Positive Link Between Video Games and Academic Performance, Study Suggests 100
Stopping Trolls Is 'Now Life and Death For Twitter', Argues Backchannel 637
The World's First Web Site Celebrates 25 Years Online 136
Yahoo's New Anti-Abuse AI Outperforms Previous AI 119
1,000+ US Spies Are Protecting Rio Olympics, Says Report 105
Zimbabwe Military Threatens To 'Deal With' Social Media-Powered Protesters 56
Olympic Committee Prohibits Streaming Apps, Vines and GIFs From Its Events 188
Facebook's New Anti-Clickbait Algorithm Buries Bogus Headlines 123
Police Asked Facebook To Deactivate Woman's Account During Deadly Standoff 447
Bar In UK Uses Faraday Cage To Block Mobile Phone Signals 537
LinkedIn Moves Into Video, Starting With Quora-Style Q&A From Influencers 35
Instagram's New Stories Are a Near-Perfect Copy of Snapchat Stories 20
Hacker Selling Data For 200 Million Yahoo Users On The Dark Web 65
QRLJacking Attack Can Bypass Any QR Login System 31
Apple Replaces The Pistol Emoji With A Water Gun 246
Snowden Questions WikiLeaks' Methods of Releasing Leaks 165
Instagram Will Soon Allow Users To Filter Comments 15
Facebook Offering Refunds For Kids' In-App Purchases 22
Tech Takes Its K-12 CS Education and Immigration Crisis To the DNC 118
Olympics Committee Says Non-Sponsors Are Banned From Tweeting About the Olympics 247
Pop Star Tells Fans To Send Their Twitter Passwords, But It Might Be Illegal 116
Vine's Source Code Was Accidentally Made Public For Five Minutes 43
Facebook Admits Blocking WikiLeaks' DNC Email Links, But Won't Say Why 270
Twitter, a 10-Year-Old Company, Is Still Explaining What Twitter Is 106
Glassdoor Exposes 600,000 Email Addresses 94
Turn Your Android Phone Into a Laptop For $99 With the Superbook 126
Salesforce CEO Told LinkedIn He Would Have Paid Much More Than Microsoft 64
Facebook Took Its Giant Internet Drone On Its First Test Flight 43
Facebook Messenger Hits 1B Monthly Active Users, Accounts For 10 Percent Of All VoIP Calls 55
Facebook's Android App Can Now Save Offline Videos 30
Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube Blocked In Turkey During Reported Coup Attempt 153
Facebook Makes Little Progress in Race and Gender Diversity 200
How President Jimmy Carter Saved The Space Shuttle 237
Emirati Man Gets 3-Month Prison Sentence Over Instagram Insult 96
Google's New Emoji Aimed At Promoting Gender Equality Are Coming 200
Pokemon Go Becomes Biggest Mobile Game In US History 174
Warner Bros. Settles FTC Charge For Not Disclosing Payments To YouTubers For Positive Reviews 81
Can Tech Workers Skip The Olympics As Easily As Athletes? 93
Facebook Sued for $1 Billion for Alleged Use of Medium for Terror 204
Yahoo and Twitter CEOs Have Their Twitter Accounts Compromised 43
Tech Job Postings Are Down 40% On Popular Job Boards 142
Ashley Madison Admits It Lured Customers With 70,000 Fake 'Fembots' 92
Facebook Messenger To Get End-To-End Encryption 99
IRS Is Suing Facebook Over Asset Transfers In Ireland 97
Baton Rouge Police Database Hacked In Retaliation For Killing of Alton Sterling 393
Facebook Decides Which Killings We're Allowed to See 293
Facebook Lays Out Blueprint For Connecting Hard-To-Reach Rural Areas 37
Snapchat Introduces Memories: a Searchable, Shareable Archive of Your Snaps 41
Why Tech Support Is (Purposely) Unbearable 209
China Bans the Use Of Social Media As a News Source 96
Israel Accuses Facebook Of Aiding Terrorists and Hampering Police Investigations 278
Multitasking Drains Your Brain's Energy Reserves, Researchers Say 106
Facebook Messenger Now Has 11,000 Bots 43
Why Twitter Can't Even Protect Tech CEOs From Getting Hacked 61
Facebook Tweaks Its Newsfeed To Better Showcase Posts From Friends Instead Of Publishers 43
Here's How Pinterest Plans to Get You To Shop More 44
Facebook Backtracks, Now Says It Is Not Using Your Phone's Location To Suggest Friends 95
US Customs Wants To Know Travelers' Social Media Account Names 397
Google CEO Sundar Pichai's Quora Account Hacked 24
Google and Facebook May Be Suppressing 'Extremist' Speech With Copyright Scanners 156
Scientists Force Computer To Binge On TV Shows and Predict What Humans Will Do 63
You Could Be Paid To Post Snapchat Selfies With Products, Patent Filing Suggests 22
Facebook Offers Political Bias Training In Wake Of Trending Controversy 206
C-SPAN Uses Periscope and Facebook Live To Broadcast The House Sit-In 350
Mark Zuckerberg Tapes Over His Webcam. Should You? 292
3 Million Strong Botnet Grows Right Under Twitter's Nose 48

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