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On September 4th, 2016 with 85 comments
An anonymous Slashdot reader writes:
"A fugitive in Florida has been arrested by police after he used a wanted poster adorned with his mug shot for his...
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On September 3rd, 2016 with 51 comments
An anonymous reader writes: In a report via IEEE Spectrum, Facebook's VP of Engineering Jay Parikh described the company's "Project Storm" -- regular...
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On September 2nd, 2016 with 182 comments
Striek writes: "On Wednesday, several YouTube creators posted videos that voiced concerns over the platform's process of demonetizing videos for not being...
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On August 30th, 2016 with 197 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: A long-standing lawsuit holding Twitter responsible for the rise of ISIS got new life today, as plaintiffs...
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On August 30th, 2016 with 95 comments
An anonymous reader writes from a report via Business Insider: According to a survey of 526 random Facebook users conducted by Spot.IM, 33% of Facebook users...
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On August 30th, 2016 with 19 comments
Facebook's Safety Check is a handy service that allows people to let their friends and family know they are okay in an event of emergency. The social giant...
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On August 29th, 2016 with 47 comments
Let's get some facts straight. The vast majority of people now get their news from social media. Facebook has become one of the largest platforms for media...
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On August 29th, 2016 with 115 comments
Less than a week after Facebook announced that it is changing the way it handles the Trending Topics section on the social networking website, a fake article...
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On August 27th, 2016 with 220 comments
The U.S. government announced plans to require some foreign travelers to provide their social media account names when entering the country -- and in June...
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On August 27th, 2016 with 19 comments
An anonymous Slashdot reader writes:
Security expert Anthony Zboralski posted on HERT a social engineering attack for Tinder that lets you perform a...
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On August 26th, 2016 with 204 comments
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has made it a top priority for company to limit hateful conduct. In late December 2015, for example, the company changed its rules to...
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On August 26th, 2016 with 76 comments
Following a former Facebook journalist's report that the company's workers routinely suppressed news stories of interest to conservative readers from the...
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On August 25th, 2016 with 84 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Inverse: Harvard University's Andrew Reece and the University of Vermont's Chris Danforth crafted an algorithm that...
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On August 24th, 2016 with 22 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from VentureBeat: YouTube is developing a feature internally called Backstage where users can share photos, polls, links,...
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On August 24th, 2016 with 152 comments
An anonymous reader writes: Facebook is testing a "feature" that autoplays video clips on your feed with sound. It's not a very big test, but there's a...
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On August 23rd, 2016 with 85 comments
Sony is expected to announce two new PlayStation 4 consoles at a scheduled event on September 7th in New York City, but as that date nears more leaks of the...
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On August 23rd, 2016 with 29 comments
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada said Tuesday that the Canada-based online dating and social networking service Ashely Madison used inadequate...
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On August 23rd, 2016 with 348 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Electronic Frontier Foundation: U.S. border control agents want to gather Facebook and Twitter identities from...
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On August 21st, 2016 with 119 comments
Twitter just began rolling out "new ways to control your experience," promising the two new features "will give you more control over what you see and who you...
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On August 18th, 2016 with 132 comments
An anonymous reader writes: Twitter has suspended 235,000 accounts since February for promoting terrorism, the company said in a blog post today. "Daily...
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On August 18th, 2016 with 415 comments
theodp writes: Gizmodo and others are picking up on a Wall Street Journal story (Warning: may be paywalled) which reported that Facebook's failure to move the...
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On August 16th, 2016 with 399 comments
An anonymous reader writes:It may be hard to resist airing political grievances or appealing to voters on social media during a U.S. presidential race as...
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On August 16th, 2016 with 161 comments
A new team of specialist police officers is being set up to investigate online hate crimes, including abuse on Twitter and Facebook. The London-based hub will...
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On August 16th, 2016 with 112 comments
Mark Wilson, writing for BetaNews: Professional social network LinkedIn is suing 100 anonymous individuals for data scraping. It is hoped that a court order...
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On August 15th, 2016 with 465 comments
Twitter complained of "inaccuracies in the details and unfair portrayals" in an article which described their service as "a honeypot for assholes." Buzzfeed...
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On August 13th, 2016 with 84 comments
Skully raised $2.4 million on Indiegogo in 2014 to manufacture motorcycle helmets with built-in Augmented Reality. Now they're filing for bankruptcy, and...
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On August 12th, 2016 with 45 comments
An anonymous reader writes: The Google Play Store is the latest Google product to drop integration with Google+. The Play Store has dropped Google+ votes from...
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On August 11th, 2016 with 330 comments
jIyajbe writes: From Electoral-Vote.com: "A theory has been circulating that the Donald Trump tweets that come from an Android device are from the candidate...
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On August 11th, 2016 with 69 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Engadget: Tor has published what it calls a "Social Contract" comprised of promises to users and the principles the...
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On August 11th, 2016 with 308 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from BuzzFeed: In 2015, then-Twitter CEO Dick Costolo secretly ordered employees to filter out abusive and hateful replies...
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