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Far-Right Propaganda Gets the Most Engagement on Facebook, Especially When It’s Lies
Republican Senator Rand Paul appears before a Facebook logo at a Fox News/Facebook hosted presidential primary debate in 2015; used…
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Brave Is Launching a Search Engine to Take On Google
Photo: Alex Cranz/Gizmodo, Screenshot: Brave Just a few months after rolling out what can probably be called the first privacy-preserving…
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Facebook Oversight Board May Seek to Examine Its Algorithm
An activist of environmental NGO Avaaz wearing a mask depicting Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg holds a banner reading “Regulate me”…
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Someone Made a Fully Playable Game of Pong Inside a macOS Icon
Apple has always pushed its hardware as tools for creative types—not toys for gamers—but that hasn’t stopped creative developers from…
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Twitter Launches Five-Strike System to Ban Users Who Spread Covid-19 Lies
Austin Beutner, Superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), receives the covid-19 vaccine on March 1, 2021 in…
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Instagram Announces New Live Rooms Feature
Instagram is expanding its livestreaming offerings with a new feature dubbed Live Rooms, which is just like Instagram Live but…
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Plastic Surgeon Makes Court Appearance Over Zoom With Patient on Operating Table
Screenshot: Sacramento Superior Court/Sacramento Bee A plastic surgeon in Northern California went viral over the weekend after video surfaced showing…
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Bots Reportedly Helped Fuel GameStonks Hype on Social Media
Photo: Chris Delmas/AFP (Getty Images) The s0-called GameStonks saga had some help from automated bots hyping up “meme” stocks on…
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Go Update Your Password Right Now
Photo: Michael Smith/Newsmakers (Getty Images) Hey, you, casual internet user. Why not go and update your passwords right now? I’m…
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‘Deep Nostalgia’ Can Turn Old Photos of Your Relatives Into Moving Videos
It’s hard to feel connected to someone who’s gone through a static photo. So a company called MyHeritage who provides…
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