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What Social Media Needs to Learn From Traditional MediaÂ
On October 10, 1999, The Los Angeles Times published a special issue of its Sunday magazine devoted entirely to the…
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Facebook disputes reports that it failed to address known issues
Photo: Carl Court (Getty Images) Facebook on Saturday pushed back against recent reports from the Wall Street Journal that cited…
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It’s Time to Talk About Facebook Research
Steven Levy covers the gamut of tech subjects for WIRED, in print and online, and has been contributing to the…
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Rain Boots, Turning Tides, and the Search for a Missing Boy
Later that week, in a video now viewed tens of thousands of times, Jada Brooke fanned the flames. She’d spoken…
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Can the Wisdom of Crowds Help Fix Social Media’s Trust Issue?
The study found that with a group of just eight laypeople, there was no statistically significant difference between the crowd…
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Facebook Quietly Makes a Big Admission
Back in February, Facebook announced a little experiment. It would reduce the amount of political content shown to a subset…
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Facebook’s Reason for Banning Researchers Doesn’t Hold Up
When Facebook said Tuesday that it was suspending the accounts of a team of NYU researchers, it made it seem…
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Struggling to Recruit, Police Turn to Targeted Ads
Your favorite social media platform likely knows more about you than your parents do. Our clicks, likes, and follows reveal…
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This New Way to Train AI Could Curb Online Harassment
For about six months last year, Nina Nørgaard met weekly for an hour with seven people to talk about sexism…
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Clubhouse Opens Its Doors. Is Anyone Rushing to Get In?
Among early adopters, the most coveted item this time last year was not hand sanitizer or Clorox wipes but a…
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