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Child tweets gibberish from US nuclear-agency account
The tweet “;l;;gmlxzssaw", posted to US Strategic Command's Twitter account, causes confusion.
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Facebook, Twitter and Google CEOs grilled by Congress on misinformation
The chief executives of Facebook, Google and Twitter faced withering criticism from members of Congress on Thursday about their handling of misinformation and online extremism during their first appearance before lawmakers since the Jan. 6 Capitol riots and the rollout of the coronavirus vaccine.
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How to blur your background in a Zoom call
Let's say you have a Zoom meeting, but your normal work-from-home space is occupied, or worse, a mess. You have no time to clean it up, or find a neutral, privacy-maintaining space to set up, and panic sets in. Don't worry--you have options built right into Zoom to hide the space behind you: background blurring.
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Facebook’s Clubhouse rival looks a lot like Clubhouse right now
Facebook is building a Clubhouse rival, The New York Times reported in February. But what that product will look like or how it will work have been questions that have remained unanswered.
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Health-Care Workers Are Bragging on TikTok About Forging Vax Cards
A new trend is emerging that could have huge implications for the vulnerable Americans some health-care professionals serve.
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Tech CEOs and Congress to face off at hearing on "fake news"
When the CEOs of Facebook, Google and Twitter testify before Congress Thursday, March 25, the future of information flowing unchecked and unregulated across their platforms will be at stake. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey are scheduled to appear via teleconference before the House Energy and Commerce subcommittees on Communications and Technology, and Consumer Protection at Noon EDT.
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The Mystery of the Missing North Korean Social Media Star
Her life in South Korea seemed perfect: new friends, a burgeoning career, reality-TV fame. But she was about to become notorious—disappearing without a trace, only to reappear pledging allegiance to North Korea. What happened to Lim Ji-hyun?
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Facebook accidentally announces a social network for prisoners
Facebook is testing an app aimed at prisoners who are coming back into society, a test has revealed.
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12 people are behind most of the anti-vaxxer disinformation you see on social media
If you catch your old college roommate sharing COVID-19 vaccine misinformation on Facebook, the odds are that these falsehoods are coming from one of twelve people. That’s right. Just twelve individuals. A new report from the Center for Countering Digital Hate and Anti-Vax Watch found that up to 65 percent of “anti-vaccine content” on Facebook and Twitter originated from twelve influencers within the anti-vaxxer movement.
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Mark Zuckerberg proposes a 'thoughtful reform' of Section 230
He said platforms should have to prove they have systems in place to identify and remove unlawful content.
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Why do Americans share so much fake news? One big reason is they aren’t paying attention, new research suggests
Americans who share fake news on social media might not lack media literacy skills. Chances are they don't stop to check accuracy, a new study suggests.
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Ex-CEO Sues Parler Over 'Arrogant Theft,' Claims Site Was 'Hijacked'
John Matze, the co-founder and former CEO of Parler, has sued the site's financier Rebekah Mercer over his ouster from the company, which he alleges took millions of dollars away from him.
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Facebook guidelines allow for users to call for death of public figures
Facebook’s bullying and harassment policy explicitly allows for “public figures” to be targeted in ways otherwise banned on the site, including “calls for [their] death”, according to a tranche of internal moderator guidelines leaked to the Guardian.
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Trump is planning to launch his own social-media platform in the next few months, aide Jason Miller says
Miller during an appearance on Fox News said Trump would be "returning to social media in two or three months" with "his own platform."
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He got Facebook hooked on AI. Now he can't fix its misinformation addiction
It was March 23, 2018, just days after the revelation that Cambridge Analytica, a consultancy that worked on Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential election campaign, had surreptitiously siphoned the personal data of tens of millions of Americans from their Facebook accounts in an attempt to influence how they voted.
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Climate fight 'is undermined by social media's toxic reports'
Fake news on social media about climate change and biodiversity loss is having a worrying impact in the battle to halt the growing environmental threats to the planet, a group of scientists and analysts have warned.
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Young female Japanese biker is really 50-year-old man with luscious hair using FaceApp
Can't trust everything you see online these days.
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Instagram stops adults from DMing teens who don't follow them
Instagram is making it harder for creeps by preventing adults from sending DMs to teens that don't follow them, and making it harder to find those teens.
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Encrypted messenger Signal is banned in China, joining WhatsApp and Telegram
Before it was blocked, Signal stood as the last major foreign messaging app that was still accessible in mainland China without a virtual private network connection.
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Facebook found that a vast amount of its anti-vaxx content comes from a hard core of only 111 accounts
Facebook has identified a core of 111 accounts sharing a large amount of the anti-vaccine and vaccine skeptical material on its platform, according to an internal report obtained by The Washington Post. The accounts in question were not named. According to the Post, Facebook identified them by carving up its US users into different categories and assessing how receptive they were to content skeptical of vaccines.