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Norway Took On Meta’s Surveillance Ads and Won | WIRED
When you watch a video on Instagram, the app’s algorithms are also watching you. As you scroll, they are hoovering…
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Meta’s Election Research Opens More Questions Than It Answers
In the lead-up to the 2020 presidential election, Meta set out to conduct a series of ambitious studies on the…
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Meta Just Proved People Hate Chronological Feeds
For three months in late 2020, nearly 7,200 US adults on Facebook and 8,800 on Instagram received a radically different…
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Threads Is the New Cool Hangout—for Brands
When prebiotic soda brand Olipop joined Threads, it didn’t post about the flavors it comes in or its claimed nutritional…
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Instagram Posts About a 17th-Century King Are Getting People Arrested | WIRED
Shafiq Bagwan was hanging out with a few friends in his village of Hasnabad, which is in the Maharashtra state…
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6 Threads App Settings Worth Trying Out
Threads, Meta’s new Twitter competitor, still has that new-app smell as millions of users figure out what to post on…
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Dear Mark Zuckerberg: Don’t Fight Elon Musk in the Las Vegas Octagon
Dear Mark … Are you really going to fight a mixed martial arts cage match with Elon Musk? It sounds…
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How to Install Threads on Your Windows Desktop
After all the press for Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk potentially taking it to each other in the octagon, the…
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How Threads’ Privacy Policy Compares to Twitter’s (and Its Rivals’)
Meta’s long-awaited Twitter alternative is here, and it’s called Threads. The new social media app launches at a time when…
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Don’t Join Threads—Make Meta’s Instagram-Linked Twitter Alternative Join You
As Meta’s Twitter competitor, Threads, started generating buzz ahead of yesterday’s launch, curious netizens spotted a placeholder listing for the…
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