Social Networks Stories for 2017

Facebook's Uneven Enforcement of Hate Speech Rules Allows Vile Posts To Stay Up 171
Mark Zuckerberg's Real Campaign: Save Facebook 158
A Reporter Built a Bot To Find Nazi Sock Puppet Accounts. Twitter Banned the Bot and Kept the Nazis 648
Vietnam Deploys 10,000 Cyber Warriors to Fight 'Wrongful Views' 92
Obama Warns Against Irresponsible Social Media Use 360
The Library of Congress Will Stop Archiving Every Public Tweet On January 1st 79
Russia's Putin Calls For Web Activities of Some Firms To Be Monitored 57
Should Regulators Force Facebook To Ship a 'Start Over' Button For Users? 109
Ask Slashdot: How Do You Avoid 'Information Overload' 133
The Lower Your Social Class, the 'Wiser' You Are, Suggests New Study 311
How To Check If You Interacted With Russian Propaganda On Facebook During the 2016 Election 226
Kids In 'Netflix Only' Homes Are Being Saved From 230 Hours of Commercials a Year, Says Report 118
Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook To Exclude Older Workers From Job Ads 340
The People Who Read Your Airline Tweets 54
Russia-Linked Twitter Accounts 'Tried To Divide UK' After Terrorist Attacks 133
Facebook Will Use Facial Recognition To Tell You When People Upload Your Picture 80
Facebook To Demote Posts That Ask For 'Likes' Or Shares 85
Google Reveals the Most-Trending Searches of 2017 49
Former Exec Who Said Facebook Was 'Destroying Society' Still Loves Facebook 46
Facebook Admits that Some Social Media Use Can Be Harmful 63
Facebook Will Introduce Ads As Videos Start Playing 72
EFF: Accessing Publicly Available Information On the Internet Is Not a Crime 175
Google and Facebook 'Must Pay For News' From Which They Make Billions 168
Russia-Linked Accounts Were Active on Facebook Ahead of Brexit 254
Instagram Will Now Let You Follow Hashtags In Your Main Feed 23
Twitter Officially Launches 'Threads,' a New Feature For Easily Posting Tweetstorms 47
We've Toned Down the 'Destroying Society' Shtick, Facebook Insists 102
LinkedIn Bro Poetry Pretty Much Sums Up 2017 51
Former Facebook Exec Says Social Media is Ripping Apart Society 405
Patreon Hits Donors With New Fees, Angering Creators 143
Twitter Says It Accidentally Banned A Bunch Of Accounts 25
EU Urges Internet Companies To Do More To Remove Extremist Content 79
NiceHash Hacked, $62 Million of Bitcoin May Be Stolen 79
Health Secretary Hits Out at Facebook's New App, Says 'Stay Away From My Kids' 113
Facebook Launches New Messenger App for Young Kids -- What Could Possibly Go Wrong? 62
Vine Co-Founder Dom Hofmann Says He's Working On 'a Follow-Up To Vine' 54
Facebook Judge Frowns on Bid To Toss Biometric Face Print Suit 39
New Study Finds That Most Redditors Don't Actually Read the Articles They Vote On 164
Snapchat Is Becoming the Anti-Facebook 47
Facebook's New Captcha Test: 'Upload A Clear Photo of Your Face' 302
FCC Chairman Keeps Up Assault on Social Media 193
Facebook Rolls Out AI To Detect Suicidal Posts Before They're Reported 171
Tumblr Is Tumbling 157
Bloomberg Op-Ed: The Internet 'Already Lost Its Neutrality' 171
Facebook To Show Users Which Russian Propaganda They Followed 279
Facebook Still Lets Housing Advertisers Exclude Users By Race 197
We Can't Trust Facebook To Regulate Itself, Says Former Operations Manager 105
Massive US Military Social Media Spying Archive Left Wide Open In AWS S3 Buckets 85
Report Claims That 18 Nation's Elections Were Impacted By Social Engineering Last Year 235
Jack Dorsey Responds To Serial Killer Who Found His Victims Through Suicidal Twitter Posts 73
Twitter Bans, Removes Verified Status of White Supremacists 707
Thirty Countries Use 'Armies of Opinion Shapers' To Manipulate Democracy 181
Sean Parker Unloads on Facebook 'Exploiting' Human Psychology 285
Twitter Officially Expands Its Character Count To 280 Starting Today 98
Facebook To Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance 370
How Facebook Figures Out Everyone You've Ever Met 219
Twitter Exploit Let Two Pranksters Post 30,000-Character Tweet 65
9.6% of Facebook's Users 'May Be Fakes' 96
Twitter Employee Blamed For Deleting President Donald Trump's Account 377
Facebook, Twitter and Google Berated by Senators on Russia 176
Vendor Tracks LinkedIn Profile Changes To Alert Client Employers 101
Facebook Says 126 Million Americans May Have Seen Russia-Linked Political Posts 370
TechCrunch Argues Social Media News Feeds 'Need to Die' 154
Facebook Exec: 'Just Not True' That We Listen To Your Phone's Mic 152
Reddit Conducts Wide-Ranging Purge of Offensive Subreddits 330
Twitter Says It Overstated Monthly-User Figures For 3 Years 36
Justice Department Demands Five Twitter Users' Personal Info Over an Emoji 59
Snapchat Reportedly Stuck With 'Hundreds of Thousands' of Unsold Spectacles 63
Facebook Tests Removing Publishers From News Feed -- Unless They Pay 88
Silicon Valley 'Divided Society and Made Everyone Raging Mad', Argues Newsweek 320
Twitter Plans To End Revenge Porn Next Week, Hate Speech In Two 293
Facebook Security Chief Says Its Corporate Network Is Run 'Like a College Campus' 85
Elon Musk Teases Reddit With Bad Answers About BFR Rocket 100
Google Bombs Are Our New Normal 94
Twitter Is Crawling With Bots and Lacks Incentive To Expel Them 95
How Facebook Outs Sex Workers 635
Facebook Announces $199 Oculus Go Standalone VR Headset 86
Virtual Zuck Fails To Connect 141
Google Uncovers Russia-Bought Ads On YouTube, Gmail and Other Platforms 345
Publishers Take ResearchGate To Court, Seek Removal of Millions of Papers 66
Regulate Facebook Like AIM 105
A Small But Growing Group Of Silicon Valley Heretics Are Disconnecting Themselves From the Internet 142
Facebook Fought Rules That Could Have Exposed Fake Russian Ads 193
Steemit Is a Social Network That Pays You For Your Posts In Cryptocurrency 54
US Studying Ways To End Use of Social Security Numbers For ID 311
Facebook Says 10 Million US Users Saw Russia-linked Ads 252
Google Investigates Facebook's Russian Political Operatives, Will Address Congressmen 93
Radical Leftists Built Their Own FOSS Alternative To Reddit After It Banned Them 289
Department of Justice Demands Facebook Information From 'Anti-Administration Activists' 253
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Rejects Trump Bias Claims 428
Homeland Security Plans To Collect Immigrants' Social Media Information 197
Russia Threatens To Shut Down Facebook Over Local Data Storage Laws 90
Twitter Tests Doubling Character Limit For Tweets To 280 132
Russia Reportedly Bought Thousands of Facebook Ads Sought To Stress Racial Divisions 292
Instagram Now Has 800 Million Monthly, 500 Million Daily Active Users 29
Microsoft Connects LinkedIn and Office 365 Via Profile Cards, Starting To Capitalize on $26B Deal 52
Facebook Will Share Copies of Political Ads Purchased by Russian Sources With the US Congress 234
Democrats Ask FEC To Create New Rules To Keep Foreign Influence Off Social Media Ads 195
Twitter Suspends 300,000 Accounts Tied To Terrorism In 2017 69
New Book Argues Silicon Valley Will Lead Us to Our Doom 202
Facebook Shares Details Of Russia-Bought Ads With US Investigators 232
More Millennials Would Give Up Voting Than Texting 350
PewDiePie Is Inexcusable But DMCA Takedowns Are Not the Way To Fight Him 506
Social Media Site Gab Sues Google For Antitrust Violations Following Ban From Play Store 164
Facebook Enabled Advertisers To Reach 'Jew Haters' 253
Spain Fines Facebook Over Tracking Users Without Consent 41
The Fake News Machine: Inside a Town Gearing Up for 2020 225
Why RSS Still Beats Facebook and Twitter for Tracking News 108
Neural Networks Can Auto-Generate Reviews That Fool Humans 67
Should Congress Force Social Media To Investigate Foreign Propaganda Trolls? 266
Why It's So Hard To Trust Facebook 139
Fake Facebook 'Like' Networks Exploited Code Flaw To Create Millions of Bogus 'Likes' 34
Facebook Finds a New Service To Copy: Tinder 46
VR Company Upload Settles Sexual Harassment Lawsuit 83
67% of Americans Use Social Media To Get Some of their News 71
Twitter is Just Randomly Deleting People's Lists -- and No One Knows Why 115
Facebook Sold Ads To Russian-Linked Accounts During Election 138
Facebook Essentially Has Been Telling Advertisers It Can Reach More People Than Actually Exist, Analyst Finds 117
Over 28 Million Records Stolen In Breach of Latin American Social Network Taringa 16
Facebook Offers Hundreds of Millions of Dollars for Music Rights 84
Silicon Valley Courts Brand-Name Teachers, Raising Ethics Issues 147
Some Instagram Employees Sell Verification For Thousands of Dollars 56
Reddit's Main Code Is No Longer Open Source 162
Facebook Has Mapped the Entire Human Population of Earth 160
Instagram Hack Targets Celebrities 32
Facebook To Open New Office in Kendall Square, Adding Hundreds of Jobs 37
The IRS Decides Who To Audit By Data Mining Social Media 232
Facebook Pages Spreading Fake News Won't Be Able To Buy Ads 474
The Mayweather-McGregor Fight Shows It's Impossible to Stop Social Media Streaming of Big Events 88
China Orders Internet Comments Linked To Real Identities 251
People Are Complete Suckers For Online Reviews 162
Facebook Figured Out My Family Secrets, And It Won't Tell Me How 281
These Are the 10 Most Popular Mobile Apps in America 144
Elon Musk Posts First Photo of SpaceX's New Spacesuit 142
Mark Zuckerberg Says Facebook Will Add Subscriptions For News Stories 57
Medium Will Now Pay Writers Based On How Many 'Claps' They Get 135
Video Is Coming To Reddit 74
Facebook Downranks Video Clickbait and Fake Play Buttons 25
Thai Activist Jailed For the Crime of Sharing an Article on Facebook 120
Judge Says LinkedIn Cannot Block Startup From Public Profile Data 166
Trump Can Block People On Twitter If He Wants, Administration Says 214
Facebook Launches Watch Tab For Video Shows, Uses TV's 75-Year-Old Marketing Pitch 40
Facebook Is Cracking Down On Deceptive Ads For Porn, Diet Pills 90
First Evidence That Social Bots Play a Major Role In Spreading Fake News 144
FBI Tracked 'Fake News' Believed To Be From Russia On Election Day 352
Facebook Fights Fake News With Links To Other Angles 157
Iranians Use 'Cute Photographer' Profile To Hack Targets In Middle East 39
Twitter Added Zero New Users Last Quarter Despite Trump Tweets 310
It Looks Like Facebook Is Also Building a Smart Speaker With Touch Screen 46
Company Gets 45,000 Bad Facebook Reviews After Teenaged Hacker's Unjust Arrest 295
Facebook Is Looking Into Allowing Paywall For Selected Media Stories 35
Nearly 90,000 Sex Bots Invaded Twitter in 'One of the Largest Malicious Campaigns Ever Recorded on a Social Network' 53
Border Patrol Says It's Barred From Searching Cloud Data On Phones 74
Europe Says Employers Must Warn Job Applicants Before Checking Them Out on Social Media 221
Mark Zuckerberg Hits the Road To Meet Regular Folks -- With a Few Conditions 254
Students Are Better Off Without a Laptop In the Classroom 247
41 Percent of Adults In the US Have Been Harassed Online, Says Pew Study 242
Twitter Users Blocked By Trump Sue, Claim @realDonaldTrump Is Public Forum 430
EFF's Latest Privacy Report Criticizes Amazon and WhatsApp Over Policies That 'Fall Short' 12
Russians Now Need a Passport To Watch Pornhub 89
Nest Founder 'Wakes Up In Cold Sweats' Fearing The Impact Of Mobile Technology 106
Germany's Federal Cartel Office Claims Facebook 'Extorts' Personal Data From Users 83
Seeking YouTube Fame, A Teenager Kills Her Boyfriend 605
Germany Approves Plans To Fine Social Media Firms Up To $57M 223
Facebook Inches Closer To Its Goal of Beaming Internet to World's Remotest Places 19
Facebook May Finally Have To Compromise Its User Experience In Order To Keep Growing 122
Twitter Detects Riots Faster Than Police, Study Says 49
Facebook's Secret Censorship Rules Protect White Men From Hate Speech But Not Black Children 355
The Guardian Backtracks On WhatsApp 'Backdoor' Report 48
Facebook Crosses 2 Billion Monthly Users 101
Social Media Giants Step Up Joint Fight Against Extremist Content 181
Germany Cracks Down On Illegal Speech On Social Media. 535
The People GoFundMe Leaves Behind 242
Chinese Government Fabricates Social Media Posts for Strategic Distraction, not Engaged Argument 69
Facebook Has a New Mission: Bring the World Closer Together 106
Time Warner Will Spend $100 Million On Snapchat Original Shows, Ads 40
Supreme Court Rules Sex Offenders Can't Be Barred From Social Media 114
Facebook Exposes Employee Data To Terrorists 50
Man Sentenced to Death For Blasphemous Facebook Comments In Pakistan 469
'COVFEFE Act' Would Make Social Media a Presidential Record 322
Facebook Wants To Spy On People Using Their Phone's Camera and Analyze Facial Emotions 104
Airbnb Announces Its Plan To House 100,000 People In Need 139
The Public Is Growing Tired of Trump's Tweets, Says Voter Survey 489
Russian Malware Communicates Using Britney Spears's Instagram Account 54
Facebook Unveils New Tools To Help Elected Officials Reach Constituents 52
Slashdot Asks: Is Trump's Blocking of Some Twitter Users Unconstitutional? 390
Can Twitter Survive By Becoming A User-Owned Co-Op? 124
Twitter Isn't Removing Enough Hate Speech, Complains The EU 201
Pioneering Link-Sharing Site Del.icio.us Shuts Down 55
Trump Administration Approves Tougher Visa Vetting, Including Social Media Checks 270
Hillary Clinton Rips 'Bankrupt' DNC Data Operation 524
Man Fined $4,000 For 'Liking' Defamatory Posts on Facebook 210
Parents Have No Right To Dead Child's Facebook Account, German Court Rules 218
Leaked 'Standing Rock' Documents Reveal Invasive Counterterrorism Measures 310
Mark Zuckerberg Calls for Universal Basic Income in His Harvard Commencement Speech 747
Facebook's Instant Articles Platform To Support Google AMP, Apple News 23
And Now, a Brief Definition of the Web 64
How Facebook Flouts Holocaust Denial Laws Except Where It Fears Being Sued 310
Facebook Signs BuzzFeed, Vox, Others For Original Video Shows 15
Imzy, the Kinder and Gentler Reddit By Ex Employee, Is Shutting Down 200
Mark Zuckerberg Is Working On a Way To Connect You To People You 'Should' Know 140
Facebook Flooded With 'Sextortion' and Revenge Porn, Files Reveal 54
Is Russia Conducting A Social Media War On America? 469
Facebook and Twitter 'Harm Young People's Mental Health' 120
Facebook Now Battles Clickbait On a Post-by-Post Basis 45
EU Fines Facebook $122 Million Over Misleading Information On WhatsApp Deal 31
Twitter Co-Founder Biz Stone Is Returning to the Company 35
European Privacy Regulators Take Coordinated Action Against Facebook 53
British PM Candidate Promises Social Media Crackdown 218
Amazon Is the 2nd Most Popular App Among Teens, Says Study 56
Snap CEO Evan Spiegel Is Not Afraid of Facebook 42
Facebook Downranks News Feed Links To Crappy Sites Smothered In Ads 95
Slashdot Asks: Which Tech Giant You Can't Live Without? 269
Facebook Must Delete Hate Postings Worldwide, Rules Austrian Court 364
Facebook Takes Out Full-page Newspaper Ads To Help UK Citizens Detect Fake New 82
Social Media Giants Sued For Helping ISIS 135
US To Seek Social Media Details From Certain Visa Applicants 76
WhatsApp Users Are Reporting Outages Worldwide 44
Facebook Hiring 3,000 To Monitor Videos After Murders, Violence Shown Live 114
Facebook Lets Advertisers Target Insecure Teens, Says Report 118
Massive Tinder Photo Scrape Has Users Upset 80
Lawsuit: Fox News Group Hacked, Surveilled, and Stalked Ex-Host Andrea Tantaros 100
Facebook Pledges To Crack Down on Government-led Misinformation Campaigns 108
Facebook Shows Related Articles and Fact Checkers Before You Open Links 119
Microsoft's Nadella Banks On LinkedIn Data To Challenge Salesforce 34
Some of the Biggest Economies Aren't a Big User Of Social Media 78
Is Social Media Making Us Hate Each Other? 312
Startup Still Working On 'Immortal Avatars' That Will Live Forever 90
LinkedIn Apologizes For Trying To Connect Everyone In Real Life 71
In The First Months of Trump Era, Facebook And Apple Spent More On Lobbying Than They Ever Have 54
Facebook Owns Four Out of the Five Most Downloaded Apps Worldwide 54
How Tilt Went From Hot $375 Million Startup To Fire Sale 167
Facebook Adds a Login Shortcut To Other Android Apps 38
Facebook Launches Augmented Reality Camera Effects Developer Platform 9
Embarrassing Ex-Employee Complaint Against Snapchat Unsealed 85
Facebook Targets 30,000 Fake France Accounts Before Election 112
Instagram's Snapchat Clone Is Now More Popular Than Snapchat -- and It's Only 8 Months Old 50
Twitter Allegedly Deleting Negative Tweets About United Airlines' Passenger Abuse 233
Facebook Has Reached Its Microsoft Bing Moment -- History Shows the Results Won't Be Pretty 150
McDonald's Is Now Accepting Snapchats As Job Applications 155
The Trump Administration No Longer Wants Twitter To Reveal the Owner of an Anti-Trump Account 92
Facebook To Use Photo-Matching To Block Repeat 'Revenge Porn' 70
Twitter Sues US Government Over Attempt To Unmask Anti-Trump Account 248
Twitter To Developers: Please Love Us Again 143
Former Snapchat Employee Presses To Unseal Allegedly Doctored Usage Statistics 14
WhatsApp To Foray Into Digital Payments With India's Controversial Aadhaar 16
Telcos Gear Up To Fight Facebook and Google Over How You Log Into Websites 50
Oculus Co-Founder and Rift Creator Palmer Luckey Leaves Facebook 66
Twitter Is Ditching the Egg 75
'Verified' Is Now a Derogatory Term on Twitter 416

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