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When you browse Instagram and find former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott's passport number social media security Article 8335 words 32 votes
6,600-word internal memo from a fired Facebook data scientist details how the social network knew leaders of countries around the world were using the site to manipulate voters — and failed to act facebook social media Article 3563 words 21 votes
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Analysis of health misinformation on Facebook finds that it's receiving billions of views—about four times as many as content from leading health institutions—and only 16% has a warning label facebook social media Link 13 votes
Bill Gates on vaccines, Trump, and why social media is “a poisoned chalice” social media Article 3114 words 7 votes
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CyberBunker: The "bulletproof web hosting" company based in a German Cold War bunker that became a dark-web empire Article 11 053 words 10 votes
An analysis of over 15,000 popular Google searches found that the first organic result is now usually almost halfway down the page, and requires scrolling multiple screen-lengths on mobile to reach google Article 3972 words 21 votes
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Facebook’s employees reckon with the social network they’ve built facebook social media Article 4586 words 4 votes
The TikTok war - How TikTok exposed Facebook's blindspot, and why its Chinese roots make TikTok a genuine concern social media security facebook Article 3976 words 8 votes
Can our electronic ballots be both secret and secure? A mathematician's quest to make American elections more trustworthy security Article 6310 words 4 votes
Trump, Twitter, Facebook, and the future of online speech - The debate over censorship and Section 230 is thorny, contentious, and, above all, outdated social media facebook Article 4674 words 8 votes
What's wrong with WhatsApp? As social media has become more inhospitable, the appeal of private online groups has grown. But they hold their own dangers – to those both inside and out social media Article 3677 words 16 votes
Spies, lies, and stonewalling: What it’s like to report on Facebook facebook social media Article 3058 words 5 votes
Moroccan journalist targeted with network injection attacks using NSO Group’s tools privacy Article 4515 words 2 votes
Employees at Crisis Text Line tried telling the board about a pattern of racial insensitivity at the company — but when that didn’t work, they went to Twitter social media Article 4080 words 7 votes
CDA Section 230 explained: The important and often-misunderstood legal foundation of the social internet social media internet Article 3539 words 6 votes
The confessions of Marcus "MalwareTech" Hutchins, the hacker who stopped WannaCry and was arrested by the FBI in 2017 security Article 13 662 words 33 votes
The people who are keeping the internet running during COVID and how they're doing it internet Article 4171 words 11 votes
The devastating decline of Lee Holloway, one of the co-founders of Cloudflare Article 7186 words 24 votes
The far-right helped create the world’s most powerful facial recognition technology Article 7387 words 11 votes