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12 votes
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Grandmother ordered to delete Facebook photos under GDPR
12 votes -
Tracking the location history of military and intelligence personnel using the Untappd beer-rating app
11 votes -
Will Facebook’s oversight board actually hold the company accountable?
5 votes -
"Couchsurfing needs your help" - Couchsurfing has changed to a subscription model
4 votes -
Tech companies are pretending to be on their best behavior: Big tech is watching its step and trying to appear ethical during coronavirus. Don’t be fooled
8 votes -
A highly efficient, real-time text-to-speech system deployed on CPUs
2 votes -
Facebook to buy Giphy for $400 million
25 votes -
Reddit releases "community points", tokens on the Ethereum blockchain awarded for posts - currently available in /r/cryptocurrency and /r/FortniteBR
20 votes -
Nitter, JS free interface for Twitter
15 votes -
Facebook is helping to set up a new pro-tech advocacy group
6 votes -
Twitter will allow employees to work at home forever
16 votes -
What are your internet time sinks?
Where do you all waste away most of your time on the internet? I hate to sound like a hipster, but I've come to avoid and/or dislike most main stream content aggregators. Reddit, Twitter,...
Where do you all waste away most of your time on the internet? I hate to sound like a hipster, but I've come to avoid and/or dislike most main stream content aggregators. Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, etc. are all platforms I no longer participate in because of privacy and quality reasons. I like Tildes and all, but the community is small (and I like it this way) and that means the content isn't always fresh. So where else do you all hang out?
31 votes -
The pathetic state of Youtube advertising
15 votes -
A state-of-the-art open source chatbot
12 votes -
Reddit removes new chat room feature after one day in the wake of moderator protests and bugs
33 votes -
Reddit introduces new "Start Chatting" feature across many subreddits, AskHistorians goes dark for 1 hour in protest to broken promises
57 votes -
Facebook approved ads with coronavirus misinformation, in an experiment which raises questions about how the social media giant screens ads on its platform
8 votes -
Facebook invests $5.7 billion in India's Jio Platforms, becoming the largest minority shareholder in the telecommunications company
7 votes -
Australia to make Google and Facebook pay for news content
6 votes -
5G coronavirus conspiracy theory fueled by coordinated effort
6 votes -
Twitter removes privacy option, and shows why we need strong privacy laws
17 votes -
The coronavirus has changed the way Americans use the internet
9 votes -
YouTube has banned all conspiracy theory videos falsely linking coronavirus symptoms to 5G networks
26 votes -
Operation red herring | YouTube geographic
3 votes -
The difficulties of moderating COVID-19 misinformation when even statements from official sources are questionable
7 votes -
Mark Zuckerberg discovers privacy
17 votes -
How trolls on Reddit try to manipulate you (Disinformation and how we beat it)
9 votes -
YouTube to limit default video quality around the world for a month
12 votes -
YouTube's copyright system isn't broken. The world's is
20 votes -
Why don't we just ban targeted advertising?
27 votes -
Facebook is giving $1,000 to all of its 45,000 employees
4 votes -
Inside the pro-Donald Trump Facebook group where first responders call coronavirus a hoax
10 votes -
Internal TikTok policies instructed moderators to suppress videos featuring unattractive, disabled, or poor people so they wouldn't scare off new users, as well as to remove specific types of content
21 votes -
I wonder what the social media meta data is like right now
Facebook et al. must be excited right now with this jackpot of acute behavioral data they're acquiring, in the context of a global catastrophe. I wonder if anyone has any insight here into what...
Facebook et al. must be excited right now with this jackpot of acute behavioral data they're acquiring, in the context of a global catastrophe. I wonder if anyone has any insight here into what kind of research they are doing? I know it's all usually a tight secret.
One idea that came to mind is that this would be excellent data to weaponize. Now we (as in social media corps.) can generate a pretty good model of what a global conflict looks like on the level of individual behavior and how that can be used for an advantage. The other edge of the sword would be this will help future public health initiatives but somehow I don't see this info being made publically available...
7 votes -
Sharing photos has the potential to reveal a lot of personal information, even if you're careful with removing metadata
9 votes -
The future will be technical: a modular essay about our optimistic future
4 votes -
Secret-sharing app Whisper left hundreds of millions of users’ intimate messages, locations, and other data exposed publicly on the web
9 votes -
Brands can now purchase an ad in the #2 slot of Reddit's "Trending" sections in the Popular page and Search dropdown
26 votes -
Facebook files lawsuit against Namecheap
9 votes -
WeChat, China’s most popular messaging app, has been censoring keywords relating to the COVID-19 outbreak since at least Jan. 1, according to a new report
10 votes -
Twitter starts testing its own version of Stories, called "Fleets," which disappear after twenty-four hours and can't receive likes, retweets, or replies
10 votes -
Censored contagion - How information on the coronavirus is managed on Chinese social media
9 votes -
Hank Green - The "38% of Americans wouldn't buy Corona beer" reported by CNN is misleading
10 votes -
Arrest warrant issued in the Philippines for Fredrick Brennan, founder of 8chan, under cyberlibel charges brought by the site's current owner
17 votes -
Are social networks polarizing? A Q&A with Ezra Klein | The Interface with Casey Newton, Issue #464, Feb 27
5 votes -
Cameo is the logical endpoint of modern celebrity-obsessed culture and interaction—a perfect storm of convenience, access, and affordability
13 votes -
Reddit's 2019 Transparency Report
15 votes -
Twitter is suspending 70 pro-Bloomberg accounts, citing ‘platform manipulation’
19 votes -
The story of how Saudia Arabia influenced two well-liked Twitter employees to access thousands of users' private information and pass it to the Saudi Royal Family
10 votes