The former host of Fear Factor is now the Larry King of the Intellectual Dark Web.

WhatsApp introduced the ‘forwarding’ label last year to help curb fake news. The Facebook-owned company is working on two new features as an update to this. First spotted by WABetaInfo, a new beta update for WhatsApp on Android shows two features on forwarding messages. One adds an additional ‘frequently forwarded’ label, while the other lets users check if their messages have been forwarded.

The explosion of Amazon.com Inc.’s private-label products -- batteries, baby wipes, jeans, tortilla chips, sofas -- has prompted concern that the world’s biggest online retailer could use its clout to promote these house brands at the expense of merchants selling similar products on the web store.

The FCC’s public comment system is a bloody mess. Over the past two years, it’s become apparent that political lobbyists, usually acting on behalf of the telecom industry itself, are prepared to manipulate the agency’s rulemaking process and impersonate everyday Americans just to create the illusion of public support where, in reality, none exists.

Remaking itself from a little leftie newspaper to a powerhouse of internet journalism required experimentation, transparency, and embracing uncertainty.

Efforts to tackle inappropriate children’s content had unintended effect, pushing creators into legal gray zones.

President Vladimir Putin signed the new law, which allows punishment of individuals with fines and jail time for the spread of "fake news."

Mozilla has released Firefox 66 with autoplaying content (audio and video) blocked by default, smoother scrolling, better search, and more.

It's 7.30 a.m., and you've just woken up. How many seconds into your day can you last without using Google? If you used the alarm clock on your phone that runs Google-owned Android, you've failed. If you're an information junkie who checks the news first thing, you've also probably failed. Most news sites — including this one — run Google-owned analytics or ad tools.

Tech has a bad reputation for pulling money out of musicians’ pockets, but Splice is changing that. The audio sample marketplace and music production collaboration tool has now paid out $15 million to artists since 2013, doubling in the last year. Splice lets musicians sell their sounds for royalty-free use, and songs by Eminem, Ariana Grande and Marshmello that were powered by those samples have topped the charts.

MySpace, one of the first online social networks, has apologised after a server migration caused a huge loss of data. A message on its website says that "any photos, videos and audio files" uploaded more than three years ago may no longer be available. There had been complaints going back several months that links to music were no longer working.

Is this really what we want? To continue chucking up cookie warnings to everyone and somehow expecting them to make an informed decision about the risks they present? 99% of people are going to click through them anyway (note: this is a purely fabricated figure based on the common-sense assumption that people will generally click through anything that gets in the way of perming the task they set out to complete in the first place). And honestly, how on earth is your average person going to make an informed decision.

“Bad enough to have to deal with Russian Ops and the Alt-Right, but now we have to deal with Chinabots as well.”

The once-hyped social media company, known for gamifying mobile check-ins, is still alive and well as an incomprehensibly vast data empire.

Elon Musk and Tesla have proven once again why they are the ultimate trolls. Tesla fans hoping to get a sneak preview of the upcoming Model Y electric SUV, which will be revealed on March 14, were treated to a spectacular Easter egg when they tried to run a teaser image of the vehicle through an image editor.

Scientists researching treatments for chronic fatigue syndrome say they face online abuse and harassment. Some are leaving the field

Kickstarter CEO Perry Chen issued an open letter on the site’s blog today, noting that he will be stepping down from his role. The executive served as one of three co-founders for the service, launching the site in 2009, with Yancey Strickler and Charles Adler.

Virtual private networks are now a must-have privacy tool. But good luck figuring out which ones will actually make you safer.

From Double Rainbow Guy to the Ellen Selfie to the Dress, let’s take a pseudoscientific journey through the past nine years of internet history to determine the single best day to be online.

For six years, from 2012 to 2018, my job was to read and delete the most inappropriate comments on a conservative news site. Not all the inappropriate comments. Just the most inappropriate comments. Hundreds of comments an hour. Thousands of comments a day. Tens of thousands of comments a week. More than a million comments a year.

The changes are meant to make good on the company's promise to promote "healthy conversation."

Based on the information available online, Sendler could be one of the most accomplished 28-year-olds in medicine. But he’s not. Those are all lies.

On February 25th, 2019, I discovered a non-password protected 150GB-sized MongoDB instance. This is perhaps the biggest and most comprehensive email database I have ever reported. Upon verification I was shocked at the massive number of emails that were publicly accessible for anyone with an internet connection. Some of data was much more detailed than just the email address and included personally identifiable information (PII).

Webinars are a powerful content format for educating and engaging your audience, and their popularity is bound to increase. Educational content is the second most popular content format and marketing method used by B2B marketers.

Millions of sites that run the Drupal content management system run the risk of being hijacked until they're patched against a vulnerability that allows hackers to remotely execute malicious code, managers of the open source project warned Wednesday. CVE-2019-6340, as the flaw is tracked, stems from a failure to sufficiently validate user input, managers said in an advisory. Hackers who exploited the vulnerability could, in some cases, run code of their choice on vulnerable websites. The flaw is rated highly critical.

You may notice something unusual when you search for "vaccines" or "vaccinations" on Pinterest: no results. The social media site has blocked all searches using terms related to vaccines or vaccinations as part of a plan to stop the spread of misinformation related to anti-vaxx posts. When you attempt a search on "vaccination," Pinterest instead shows a message reading: “Pins about this topic often violate our community guidelines, so we’re currently unable to show search results."

Last May, Facebook promised to create a “Clear History” function it said would give users more control over their data. Nine months later it's nowhere to be found and sources say it's a key example of the company's “reactionary” way of dealing with privacy concerns.

Plus: Big advertisers ban YouTube (not over vaccines), the National Cancer Institute wonders how to respond to health misinformation, and how to fill a data void.

As long as The New York Times has had a metered paywall — it’s coming up on eight years! — people have been trying to sneak around it. While the paper has since had huge success getting millions of people to pay for digital news, it didn’t take long for people to realize that there was a pretty easy way to bypass it. (Innocent children unaware of this method: Cover your eyes and go play on TikTok or something.)

YouTube announced on Thursday that it will switch off the comments section on videos showing minors, in response to reports that highlighted the problem of pedophiles leaving sexual comments on videos of children. “We recognize that comments are a core part of the YouTube experience and how you connect with and grow your audience. At the same time, the important steps we’re sharing today are critical for keeping young people safe,” the company said in a blog post.

Twitter has 126 million daily users compared to Snap’s 186 million.

Earlier this week, in a post he wrote on Facebook to celebrate his company's 15th birthday, Mark Zuckerberg raised the ire of Facebook's critics yet again. Authors, journalists, researchers, and academics from across the internet pilloried Zuckerberg for his tone, his use of jargon, and his attempts to “deflect” attention from the societal problems Facebook has caused over the last decade and a half. The truth is that when appealing to a group of people through writing, the intentions or context of your words do not always matter as much as how they are perceived.

Kara Swisher’s live-tweeted interview with Jack Dorsey highlighted some of Twitter’s product issues.

Here is a really innovative and interesting Chrome feature that’s getting ready. I cannot explain this new feature in just one sentence, so stay with me. When you share a YouTube video, you now have an option to create a link that will start the video at a specific spot.

Researchers believe they have identified the prime driver for a startling rise in the number of people who think the Earth is flat: Google’s video-sharing site, YouTube. Their suspicion was raised when they attended the world’s largest gatherings of Flat Earthers at the movement’s annual conference in Rayleigh, North Carolina, in 2017, and then in Denver, Colorado, last year.