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Dorsey endorsed Ben Greenfield as a health expert. Greenfield thinks vaccinations lead to autism.

Google's services went down for an hour yesterday after its IP addresses were routed way from normal paths to Nigeria, China and Russia. Google told Ars Technica it doubted the leak was malicious, despite the fact that government-owned China Telecom was recen…

Competing social network Twitter awash with reports of not being able to use the site, with #FacebookDown trending

Investors’ unease over the technology sector’s prospects appeared to be fueling the broad market sell-off.

Facebook and the French government are going to cooperate to look at Facebook’s efforts when it comes to moderation. French regulators will launch an informal investigation on algorithm-powered and human moderation. Facebook is willing to cooperate and give u…

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Western web-users lap up misinformation online - these are the shady "merchants" who push it on Facebook.

PayPal has shut down several accounts, including those for far-right group the Proud Boys and their founder, Gavin McInnes, for the promotion of "hate, violence, or other forms of intolerance." Several anti-fascist groups were also banned as part of the same …

An MIT professor argues that misinformation boils down to one simple thing: mental laziness, exacerbated by social media.

Angry about climate change, activists shut down an oil pipeline in Minnesota—and then tried to convince a jury that their illegal actions were necessary.

Facebook must exert constant vigilance to prevent its platform from being taken over by ne'er-do-wells, but how exactly it does that is only really known to itself. Today, however, the company has graced us with a bit of data on what tools it's using and what…

When the initial buzz of Portal finally dies down, it’s the timing that will be remembered most. There’s never a great time for a company like Facebook to launch a product like Portal, but as far as optics go, the whole of 2018 probably should have been a wri…

“Who am I going to be worried about? Oh Facebook seeing? No, I’m not worried about Facebook seeing. They’re going to look at my great art collection and say they want to come steal it? No, I never really thought about it.” That’s my 72-year-old mother Sally C…

Mark Zuckerberg has yet again rebuked a UK parliamentary request for him to testify. An international committee had called for the Facebook CEO to appear before it later this month. Committee chairs from Australia, Argentina, Ireland and Canada have joined th…

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has turned down yet another invitation to give evidence in front of lawmakers outside of the US. An “international committee” with representatives from the UK, Canada, Ireland, Australia, and Argentina invited Zuckerberg to answer…

Facebook has yet again declined an invitation for its founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg to answer international politicians’ questions about how disinformation spreads on his platform and undermines democratic processes. But policymakers aren’t giving up — and …

Facebook says the 115 accounts it pulled down this week for meddling in the midterms may have been linked to notorious troll farm, the Internet Research Agency. Facebook was not categorical in drawing a link between the inauthentic behavior and the IRA, but s…

As the United States goes to the polls for the 2018 midterms, Facebook's political role is once again under scrutiny. The social network has published a report it commissioned in August from the Business for Social Responsibility. The San Francisco-based nonp…

"Some were focused on celebrities, others political debate," exec writes.

Chief constable Ian Hopkins noted that digital networks don’t have code of conduct The police officer who led the response to the Manchester Arena bombing last year has said Twitter and Facebook should be required to remove terrorist attack images and videos …

If WhatsApp lacks Facebook’s most talked-about evil features, why is it still a weaponizable conduit for misinformation?

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RT @afneil: Facebook group of close to 10,000 former customers who say their NatWest accounts were closed down are sharing templates and in…

RT @afneil: Facebook group of close to 10,000 former customers who say their NatWest accounts were closed down are sharing templates and in…

RT @afneil: Facebook group of close to 10,000 former customers who say their NatWest accounts were closed down are sharing templates and in…

RT @EssexPR: A Facebook group with 10,000 members who had their accounts shut down by NatWest, are now sharing tips on how to lodge a Subje…

RT @Nigel_Farage: A Facebook group with 10,000 members who had their accounts shut down by NatWest are now sharing tips on how to lodge a S…

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RT @Nigel_Farage: A Facebook group with 10,000 members who had their accounts shut down by NatWest are now sharing tips on how to lodge a S…

RT @afneil: Facebook group of close to 10,000 former customers who say their NatWest accounts were closed down are sharing templates and in…

RT @afneil: Facebook group of close to 10,000 former customers who say their NatWest accounts were closed down are sharing templates and in…

RT @afneil: Facebook group of close to 10,000 former customers who say their NatWest accounts were closed down are sharing templates and in…

RT @Nigel_Farage: A Facebook group with 10,000 members who had their accounts shut down by NatWest are now sharing tips on how to lodge a S…

RT @Nigel_Farage: A Facebook group with 10,000 members who had their accounts shut down by NatWest are now sharing tips on how to lodge a S…

RT @Nigel_Farage: A Facebook group with 10,000 members who had their accounts shut down by NatWest are now sharing tips on how to lodge a S…

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RT @afneil: Facebook group of close to 10,000 former customers who say their NatWest accounts were closed down are sharing templates and in…

RT @Nigel_Farage: A Facebook group with 10,000 members who had their accounts shut down by NatWest are now sharing tips on how to lodge a S…

RT @EssexPR: A Facebook group with 10,000 members who had their accounts shut down by NatWest, are now sharing tips on how to lodge a Subje…

RT @afneil: Facebook group of close to 10,000 former customers who say their NatWest accounts were closed down are sharing templates and in…

RT @afneil: Facebook group of close to 10,000 former customers who say their NatWest accounts were closed down are sharing templates and in…

RT @Nigel_Farage: A Facebook group with 10,000 members who had their accounts shut down by NatWest are now sharing tips on how to lodge a S…

RT @Nigel_Farage: A Facebook group with 10,000 members who had their accounts shut down by NatWest are now sharing tips on how to lodge a S…

RT @afneil: Facebook group of close to 10,000 former customers who say their NatWest accounts were closed down are sharing templates and in…

RT @Nigel_Farage: A Facebook group with 10,000 members who had their accounts shut down by NatWest are now sharing tips on how to lodge a S…

RT @Nigel_Farage: A Facebook group with 10,000 members who had their accounts shut down by NatWest are now sharing tips on how to lodge a S…

RT @afneil: Facebook group of close to 10,000 former customers who say their NatWest accounts were closed down are sharing templates and in…

RT @Nigel_Farage: A Facebook group with 10,000 members who had their accounts shut down by NatWest are now sharing tips on how to lodge a S…

RT @afneil: Facebook group of close to 10,000 former customers who say their NatWest accounts were closed down are sharing templates and in…

RT @Nigel_Farage: A Facebook group with 10,000 members who had their accounts shut down by NatWest are now sharing tips on how to lodge a S…

RT @Nigel_Farage: A Facebook group with 10,000 members who had their accounts shut down by NatWest are now sharing tips on how to lodge a S…

RT @Nigel_Farage: A Facebook group with 10,000 members who had their accounts shut down by NatWest are now sharing tips on how to lodge a S…

RT @afneil: Facebook group of close to 10,000 former customers who say their NatWest accounts were closed down are sharing templates and in…

RT @afneil: Facebook group of close to 10,000 former customers who say their NatWest accounts were closed down are sharing templates and in…

RT @Nigel_Farage: A Facebook group with 10,000 members who had their accounts shut down by NatWest are now sharing tips on how to lodge a S…

RT @afneil: Facebook group of close to 10,000 former customers who say their NatWest accounts were closed down are sharing templates and in…

RT @afneil: Facebook group of close to 10,000 former customers who say their NatWest accounts were closed down are sharing templates and in…

RT @afneil: Facebook group of close to 10,000 former customers who say their NatWest accounts were closed down are sharing templates and in…

RT @afneil: Facebook group of close to 10,000 former customers who say their NatWest accounts were closed down are sharing templates and in…

RT @Nigel_Farage: A Facebook group with 10,000 members who had their accounts shut down by NatWest are now sharing tips on how to lodge a S…

RT @afneil: Facebook group of close to 10,000 former customers who say their NatWest accounts were closed down are sharing templates and in…