A tech worker is selling a children's book he made using AI, then the death threats started
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We found Joe Biden’s secret Venmo. Here’s why that’s a privacy nightmare for everyone.
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Employees at law enforcement agencies across the US ran thousands of Clearview AI facial recognition searches — often without the knowledge of the public or even their own departments
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A twenty-year-old man was fatally shot while filming a YouTube "prank" robbery
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Amazon will remove the Parler site from AWS
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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
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Facebook fired an employee who collected evidence of right-wing pages getting preferential treatment
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Here are the Minneapolis police's tools to identify protesters
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Twitter will allow employees to work at home forever
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Tesla’s Fremont factory will reduce its workforce from 10,000 to 2,500 workers
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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
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Cards Against Humanity has purchased ClickHole, the satire site created by The Onion
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Clearview AI claims its facial recognition software identified a terrorism suspect in New York City last year, but the NYPD says they played no role in the case
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Facebook's Ad Library, one of its main tools for election transparency, is riddled with issues and lost 74,000 ads just before the UK election
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Ads Inc. spent over $50M placing ads on Facebook with fake celebrity news and "subscription traps", scamming people out of millions
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Profile of a fake Amazon reviewer, who has received over $15,000 of products for free in exchange for posting five-star reviews
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Millions of the comments posted during public debates like the FCC's net neutrality repeal process have been faked by political operatives using false identities
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Ring says it doesn't use facial recognition, but it has “a head of face recognition research”
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Communications and internet have been blacked out in Kashmir since August 4 - five people explain what it's like to live through
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Teens are using Instagram to cast each other in fake Broadway shows
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If you lose your iPhone, you can’t pay your Apple Card bill on the web
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The creator of the "Upcoming Reactionary Movement Venn Diagram" explains what led to its creation on Tumblr in 2014
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There's an underground economy selling links from The New York Times, BBC, CNN, and other big news sites
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The culture war has finally come for Wikipedia
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"Amazon's Choice" is given to products automatically and doesn't indicate quality - Many have troubling product defects and warnings, as well as review manipulation
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Facebook failed to delete 93% of posts containing speech violating its own rules in India
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Ring is using its customers’ doorbell camera video for ads. It says it's allowed to
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WhatsApp has become a hotbed for spreading Nazi propaganda in Germany
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Some high-profile male tech executives accused of sexual misconduct are getting second chances
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Anti-Muslim hate speech is absolutely relentless on social media even as platforms crack down on other extremist groups
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The eerie absence of viral fakes after the New Zealand mosque attacks
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Reddit has become a battleground of alleged Chinese trolls
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YouTube is rolling out a feature that shows fact-checks when people search for sensitive topics
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YouTube just demonetized anti-vaccination channels
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Mark Zuckerberg's biggest problem: Internal tensions at Facebook are boiling over
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Back from the edge: It’s easy to blame online rhetoric for violence. The reality is much harder
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Amazon pulls ads from Bloomberg, and Apple did not invite Bloomberg to its Oct. 30 event—both allegedly over China hacking story
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Apple CEO Tim Cook is calling for Bloomberg to retract its Chinese spy chip story
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Apple has permanently banned Alex Jones' Infowars app from the App Store
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Departing Facebook security officer's memo: "We need to be willing to pick sides"
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Walmart's newly patented technology for eavesdropping on workers presents privacy concerns
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How the alt-right manipulates the internet’s biggest commenting platform Disqus
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Inside the ecosystem that fuels Amazon's fake review problem
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