Social Networks Stories for 2018

Could You Live Without Your Smartphone? 157
Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook's 2018: We've Changed, We Promise 184
A Woman on Twitter is Abused Every 30 Seconds 483
Fortnite Was 2018's Most Important Social Network 79
We Should Replace Facebook With Personal Websites 310
Tumblr Blocked Archivists Just Before Starting the NSFW Content Purge 204
Twitter Is Relaunching the Reverse-Chronological Feed 35
Turning Off Facebook Location Tracking Doesn't Stop It From Tracking Your Location 165
Tumblr Porn Vanishes Today 209
Senate Report Shows Russia Used Social Media To Support Trump In 2016 388
Twitter Warns of Suspicious Traffic Coming From China and Russia 72
How YouTube's Year-In-Review 'Rewind' Video Set Off a Civil War 337
Instagram Tightens Eating Disorder Filters 94
Facebook Disbands Secretive Research Lab Amid Reorganization 25
Vine, HQ Trivia Co-Founder Colin Kroll Found Dead of Suspected Overdose 98
Could You Live Without a Smartphone For a Year? 179
Facebook Says A Bug May Have Exposed The Unposted Photos Of Millions Of Users 51
Facebook Doesn't Care About Fixing Fake News Problem On Its Platform 113
Dozens of Bomb Threats Reported Across America In Apparent Bitcoin Ransom Scam 63
Facebook Filed a Patent To Calculate Your Future Location 104
More People Get Their News From Social Media Than Newspapers, Study Finds 82
Google Will Shut Down Google+ Four Months Early After Second Data Leak 53
Facebook Will Bring Political Ad Transparency Tools To India Ahead of 2019 Elections 52
Facebook Employees Are So Paranoid They're Using Burner Phones To Talk To Each Other 224
A Quarter of Tumblr's Users Are There To Consume Porn, Data Scientists Estimate 119
Internal Emails Show Facebook Weighing the Privacy Risks of Quietly Collecting Call and Text Records From Its Android Users -- Then Going Ahead Anyway 117
Facebook Ends Platform Policy Banning Apps That Copy Its Features 28
Facebook Employees Are Calling Former Colleagues To Look For Jobs Outside the Company and Asking About the Best Way To Leave 114
Tumblr Will Ban All Adult Content On December 17th 317
WhatsApp Faces Misinformation Problem in Nigeria, Reports Say 72
Twitter User Hacks 50,000 Printers To Tell People To Subscribe To a YouTube Channel 94
The Latest Crop of Instagram Influencers? Medical Students. 48
Facebook Discussed Using People's Data As a Bargaining Chip, Emails and Court Filings Suggest 30
Facebook Quietly Hired Republican Strategy Firm Targeted Victory 102
YouTube Will Remove All Pop-up Annotations on January 15 91
A UK Commons Committee Chair Says He's Seen Evidence a Facebook Engineer Flagged Russian Entities Pulling Billions of Points of Data Every Day in 2014 127
Facebook Watch, a YouTube Competitor, is Pivoting To Older Audiences as Teens Tune Out and Publishers Balk 77
After Initially Calling The New York Times' Report False, Facebook Confirms Most Claims Made in the Story 78
Beijing To Judge Every Resident Based on Behavior by End of 2020 344
A Look at the Growing Popularity Of Closed and Secret Groups on Facebook and How Some Media Outlets Have Built an Engaging Audience There 46
Most Americans Don't Think Social Networks Are Good For the World, Survey Finds 98
'Relatively Few' Twitter Bots Were Needed To Spread Misinformation and Overwhelm Fact Checkers, Study Finds 85
Tumblr Removed From Apple's App Store Over Child Porn Issues 73
Instagram Is Cracking Down On Services That Sell Likes, Followers 25
Facebook Now Faces a Massive Backlash. But Will Anything Change? 175
Facebook Filed a Patent To Predict Your Household's Demographics Based On Family Photos 98
86 Organizations Demand Zuckerberg To Improve Takedown Appeals 81
Facebook Claims NYT Expose Has 'A Number of Inaccuracies' 64
How Google Photos Became a Perfect Jukebox for Our Memories 72
Mark Zuckerberg Reportedly Ordered All Facebook Executives To Use Android Phones After Tim Cook Criticized Facebook 215
Mark Zuckerberg 'Not Able' To Attend International Disinformation Hearing 80
Facebook To Let French Regulators Investigate On Moderation Processes 54
The Real Reason Palmer Luckey Was Fired From Facebook 142
Researchers Say Social Media Can Cause Depression 99
The Problem Behind a Viral Video of a Persistent Baby Bear 126
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Says Follower Count is Meaningless 58
A 'Clippy'-Style Chatbot -- and Other Creepy Online Dating Innovations 47
Facebook Follows Google To End Mandatory Arbitration For Sexual-Harassment Claims 72
Vine's Successor Byte Launches Next Spring 31
Facebook's Unsend Feature Will Give You 10 Minutes To Delete a Message 65
Zuckerberg Rebuffs Request To Appear Before UK Parliament 209
Chinese Video Sensation TikTok Surpassed Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and YouTube in Downloads Last Month 33
Facebook Allowed Advertisers To Target Users Interested in 'White Genocide' 318
Twitter Now Lets You Report Accounts That You Suspect Are Bots 110
MIT's BeeMe Giant Social Experiment Puts a Human Under Internet Control 59
Pentagon Wants To Predict Anti-Trump Protests Using Social Media Surveillance 421
Facebook Reports Slowing Revenue and User Growth 30
Twitter Plans To Remove 'Like' Button in a Bid To Improve the Quality of Debate, Report Says 185
Facebook Removes 82 Accounts Linked To Iranian Disinformation Campaign 54
Facebook Uses Machine Learning To Remove 8.7 Million Child Exploitation Posts 210
Facebook's Ex Security Boss: Asking Big Tech To Police Hate Speech is 'a Dangerous Path' 223
Oculus Co-founder is Leaving Facebook After Cancellation of 'Rift 2' Headset 81
Trolls Are Still Actively Trying to Influence Brexit and US Elections 470
Twitter Publishes Archive of 10 Million Tweets From Russian, Iranian Bots 144
Major Facebook Investors Want Mark Zuckerberg Out as Chairman 59
Facebook Lured Advertisers By Inflating Ad-watch Times Up To 900 Percent 83
Facebook Posts May Point To Depression, Study Finds 81
Facebook Could Use Data Collected From Its Portal In-Home Video Device To Target You With Ads 62
Most Americans Can't Tell the Difference Between a Social Media Bot and A Human, Study Finds 140
Former Google+ UI Designer Suggests Inept Management Played Role In Demise 133
Facebook To Ban Misinformation On Voting In Upcoming US Elections 245
Facebook Is Testing An Unsend Feature For Messenger 24
How To See If Your Personal Data Was Stolen In the Recent Facebook Hack 36
Facebook Removes Hundreds of Accounts Spamming Political Info 171
The Breach That Killed Google+ Wasn't a Breach At All 75
Snapchat CEO's Leaked Memo On Survival 71
Instagram Tests Sharing Your Location History With Facebook 26
Facebook Employees Outraged Over Exec's Appearance at Kavanaugh Hearing 729
Facebook Bug Prevented Users From Deleting Their Accounts 49
Bill Gates-Backed Social Recommendation App Likewise Now Available for iOS and Android 34
Facebook Finds 'No Evidence' Hackers Accessed Connected Apps 20
'Star Wars: The Last Jedi' Negative Buzz Amplified By Russian Trolls, Study Finds 447
Hackers Are Selling Facebook Credentials on the Dark Web For $3 43
Facebook is Equipping K-8 Classrooms With Robot Sets To Boost Tech Diversity 63
Facebook Faces Class-Action Lawsuit Over Massive New Hack 24
US Government Loses Bid To Force Facebook To Wiretap Messenger Calls 40
Facebook Is Giving Advertisers Access To Your Shadow Contact Information 130
Facebook Executive Hits Back at WhatsApp Co-founder Brian Acton: 'A Whole New Standard of Low-Class' 91
'I Sold My Users' Privacy To a Larger Benefit. I Made a Choice and a Compromise. And I Live With That Every Day': WhatsApp Cofounder On Leaving Facebook 163
Facebook's Plan To Let Companies It Buys Live Independently is Over 45
Google CEO Sundar Pichai Is Headed To Washington This Week To Discuss Censorship, China 100
Facebook Is Not Protecting Content Moderators From Mental Trauma, Lawsuit Claims 210
Instagram Says It's Not Working On a Regram Feature 12
Should The US Government Break Up Google, Twitter, and Facebook? 302
EU Justice Commissioner Quits Facebook, Describing Her Experience as 'Channel of Dirt' 127
Facebook Will Open a 'War Room' Next Week To Monitor Election Interference 218
Facebook Could Face EU Sanctions If It Doesn't Change Its TOS 134
Facebook Wanted Banks To Fork Over Customer Data Passing Through Messenger 71
Twitter Is Reviving the Chronological Timeline 35
Facebook Will Start Fact-Checking Pictures, Videos 116
The EU Can Still Be Saved From Its Internet-Wrecking Copyright Plan 87
Teens Would Rather Text Their Friends Than Talk To Them In Person, Poll Shows 142
Safe AI Requires Cultural Intelligence 79
Facebook's 'Rosetta' System Helps the Company Understand Text Within Image, Which is Crucial In Handling Memes, Flagging Abusing Content 45
Exploit Vendor Drops Tor Browser Zero-Day on Twitter 78
Progressive Web Apps Moving Mainstream As Twitter Makes Its Mobile Site the Main 76
Professor Who Coined Term 'Net Neutrality' Thinks It's Time To Break Up Facebook 107
DOJ: We Will Examine Social Media Firms That 'May Be Hurting Competition' 115
More Than 1 In 4 American Users Have Deleted Facebook, Pew Survey Finds 113
Twitter Says Trump Not Immune From Getting Kicked Off 342
Inside Twitter's Long, Slow Struggle To Police Bad Actors 220
SAP Founder Hasso Plattner Fears the Scourge of Social Media 125
Former Reddit CEO Decries 'Rage-Induced Interactions' on Facebook and Twitter 164
Trump Accuses Social Media Firms of 'Silencing Millions' 570
Amazon Warehouse Envoys Rally To Tweet Upbeat Comments About Working Conditions 115
Google Removes Accounts Tied To Iran-Led Misinformation Campaign 87
Evidence is Piling Up That Facebook Can Incite Racial Violence 351
Facebook is Rating Users Based On Their 'Trustworthiness' 320
President Trump Says It is 'Very Dangerous' When Companies Like Twitter Regulate Own Content 692
Twitter Is 'Rethinking' Its Service, and Suspending 1M Accounts Each Day 224
Facebook Flat-Out 'Lies' About How Many People Can See Its Ads, Lawsuit Alleges 70
Twitter's Relationship With Third-Party Apps is Messy -- But It's Not Over 26
A Look at Facebook's Presence in Myanmar Where Despite Public Outcries, Facebook is Still Struggling To Contain Hate Speech 110
Americans Don't Think the Platforms Are Doing Enough To Fight Fake News 370
Zuckerberg Doesn't Care About Publishers; Media Firms That Don't Work With Us Will End Up 'In Hospice': Facebook Executive 93
Reddit Blocked In China 68
Facebook Bans Sites That Host Blueprints of 3D-Printed Guns 214
Facebook Now Deletes Posts That Financially Endanger, Trick People 130
An Internal Note Shows Facebook Learned a Way To Target High Schoolers Through a Viral Polling App It Acquired Last Year: Report 22
Hacker Posts Snapchat Source Code To GitHub 49
Online Photos Can't Simply Be Republished, EU Court Rules 154
Researchers Discover Large Twitter Botnet Pushing Ethereum Scam 43
Public Documents Reveal How the Branches of the US Military Are Instructed To Harness Internet Culture To Advance Their Own Messaging 162
Is Facebook Ignoring Our Humanity? 117
The Expensive Education of Mark Zuckerberg and Silicon Valley 155
Facebook's New Message to WhatsApp: Make Money 75
Fake News 'Crowding Out' Real News 237
Shareholder Sues Facebook After Stock Plunge 111
Facebook Finally Discloses Pro-Brexit Ads 165
Facebook's 'Downvote' System Begins Rolling Out Wider In US 103
Twitter Stock Plunges 21 Percent After Earnings Show Effects of Fake-Account Purge 126
Should Bots Be Required To Tell You That They're Not Human? 92
Facebook Forced To Block 20,000 Posts About Snack Food Conspiracy After PepsiCo Sues, Says Report 118
Facebook Stock Suffers Largest One-Day Drop In History, Shedding $119 Billion 130
Twitter Is Limiting the Visibility of Prominent Republicans In Search Results 726
Facebook Shares Drop On Revenue Miss 69
Facebook Signs Agreement With Washington State To End Discriminatory Ad Targeting 86
Elon Musk Calls Boss of Tesla Troll Who's Heavily Invested In Oil Industry 445
Facebook Confirms It's Working on a New Internet Satellite 48
The Tech Industry's War On Kids 108
State Senator Wants A Law Forcing Bots To Admit They're Not Human 151
Social Media Manipulation Rising Globally, New Oxford Report Warns 99
Facebook Notification Spam Has Crossed the Line 98
Leaked Documents Show Facebook's 'Threshold' For Deleting Pages, Groups 94
Zuckerberg: If Someone Gets Fired For Data Abuse 'It Should Be Me' 85
The SIM Hijackers 50
Egypt's New Law Targets Social Media, Journalists For 'Fake News' 79
Health Insurers Are Vacuuming Up Details About You -- And It Could Raise Your Rates 299
Digital Ads Are Starting To Feel Psychic 182
Facebook Makes Moves On Instagram's Users 29
Game Company Receives Complaints About Bad Example Set By '%FEMALENAME' 577
Facebook Chooses To Demote Fake News Instead of Remove It 154
You Can Inherit Facebook Content Like a Letter or Diary, German Court Rules 119
Battling Fake Accounts, Twitter To Slash Millions of Followers 87
Game Company Fires Two Employees Who Complained About 'Mansplaining' on Twitter 1056
Reddit Promises Post Sponsors a 'Walled Garden' of Conversation 63
Twitter Suspended 70 Million Accounts In Past Two Months, Says Report 79
Facebook Apologizes After Flagging Declaration of Independence As Hate Speech 370
Is Facebook a Publisher? In Public it Says No, But in Court it Says Yes 42
Uganda Rolls Out a 5-Cent Daily Tax To Access Social Media 77
India, WhatsApp's Largest Market, Asks Messaging Service To Curb Spread of False Messages in the Nation 53
Federal Facebook Probe Now Includes FBI, SEC: Report 77
Facebook Apologizes For Bug That Unblocked 800,000 People 66
Homeland Security Subpoenas Twitter For Data Breach Finder's Account 48
Facebook Acknowledges It Shared User Data With Dozens of Companies 59
500px Closes Its Photo Marketplace 24
Twitter Will Show Who Pays For Ads and How Much They Spend 111
Tinder Embraces Encryption 51
Most Americans Think Facebook and Twitter Censor Their Political Views 428
Facebook Faces New Accusation of Data Leak Via Quiz App 22
Facebook Patent Imagines Triggering Your Phone's Mic When a Hidden Signal Plays on TV 169
Instagram Is Estimated To Be Worth More Than $100 Billion 114
Facebook Cancels Program To Deliver Internet By Aquila Drones 27
Facebook Reverses Its Crypto Ad Ban 28
How Twitter Made the Tech World's Most Unlikely Comeback 128
Instagram Allows Longer Videos In Challenge To YouTube 53
Facebook Will Harass You Mercilessly If You Try To Break Up 236
Facebook Groups May Soon Charge Monthly Subscription Fees For Access 78
Facebook Ordered To Explain Deleted Profile 70
Turkey Bans Periscope 87
Facebook May Ban Bad Businesses From Advertising 111
Facebook Offers Nearly 500 Pages of Answers To Congress' Questions From Zuckerberg's Testimony 62
Defying Skeptics, Twitter Stock Surges 60% in 2018 45
Facebook Gave Some Developers Access To Users' Friends After Policy Changed 31
Facebook Alerts 14M To Privacy Bug That Changed Status Composer To Public 36
Facebook Confirms Data-Sharing Deals With Chinese Tech Firms 39
Flight-Sim Maker Threatens Legal Action Over Reddit Posts Discussing DRM 175
Facebook Gave Device Makers Deep Access To Data On Users and Friends 32
Snapchat's CEO On Facebook's Long History of Copying His Company's Products 17
YouTube's Top Creators Are Burning Out and Breaking Down En Masse 308
Facebook Is Killing Off Trending As It Tries To Revamp Newsfeed 55
Facebook, Amazon, and Hundreds of Companies Post Targeted Job Ads That Screen Out Older Workers 169
Now Even Russian Lawmakers Want a Piece of Mark Zuckerberg 73
America's Teens Are Choosing YouTube Over Facebook 78
Imgur Launches Video 56
People Are Using Venmo To Spy On Cheating Spouses 102
Facebook Accused of Conducting Mass Surveillance Through Its Apps 93
YouTube Is Messing With the Order of Videos In Some User Feeds 92
Facebook Asks British Users To Submit Their Nudes as Protection Against Revenge Porn 303
President Trump Can't Block People On Twitter, Court Rules 396
European Lawmakers Asked Mark Zuckerberg Why They Shouldn't Break Up Facebook 220
Twitter Is Killing Several of Its TV Apps, Too 29
Trump Ignores 'Inconvenient' Security Rules To Keep Tweeting On His iPhone, Says Report 542
Advocacy Groups Call for the FTC To Break Up Facebook 133
Data Science is America's Hottest Job 79
'Yanny vs. Laurel' Reveals Flaws In How We Listen To Audio 236
Ads Are Coming To Facebook Stories 31
Google's Selfish Ledger is an Unsettling Vision of Silicon Valley Social Engineering 254
Twitter Will Start Hiding Tweets That 'Detract From the Conversation' 186
Justice Department, FBI Are Investigating Cambridge Analytica 139
YouTube Might Finally Get An Incognito Mode 61
Facebook Deleted 583 Million Fake Accounts in the First Three Months of 2018 75
Facebook Faulted By Judge For 'Troubling Theme' In Privacy Case 62
Researchers Reportedly Exposed Facebook Quiz Data On 3 Million Users 19
YouTube Rolls Out New Tools To Help You Stop Watching 26
US Congressmen Reveal Thousands of Facebook Ads Bought By Russian Trolls 309
Klout's Score Drops to Zero as It Announces Plans to Close Down 44
Social Media Copies Gambling Methods 'To Create Psychological Cravings' 80
Facebook Survey Suggests Continuing US Loyalty After Cambridge Analytica Data Scandal 103
Facebook Exec Admits 'No Real Understanding' for the Scope of Fake News 219
Tens of Thousands of Malicious Apps Use Facebook's APIs 28
'Follow-Up To Vine' Gets Delayed For 'Indefinite Amount of Time' 16
Twitter Says Glitch Exposed 'Substantial' Number of Users' Passwords In Plain Text 107
Facebook Placed An Employee Who Harvested User Data For Cambridge Analytica On Leave 38
Facebook May Have Secret Plans To Build a Satellite-Based Internet 75
Facebook Has Fired Multiple Employees for Snooping on Users: Motherboard 35
Google Is Building a Secret Social-Gaming Startup Called Arcade 41
Facebook Reaches Its Natural Conclusion As A Dating App 199
Chinese Government Admits Collection of Deleted WeChat Messages 39
WhatsApp Founder Plans To Leave After Broad Clashes With Parent Facebook 29

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