Internet
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Twitter wanted to be the town square. Now it's also grappling with being a cemetery
Dec 07, 2019 5:19 am - Aaronekia Williams still visits her brother's Twitter page, even though he died in 2014. She'll read though his old jokes for a laugh, occasionally retweeting her favori...
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Zuckerberg tries to convince skeptical congress on Libra, privacy
Oct 23, 2019 1:00 am - Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg struggled to convince Congress that the company's plans for a cryptocurrency are wise in light of all the other cha...
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Facebook ramps up election security efforts ahead of 2020
Oct 21, 2019 1:00 am - With just over a year left until the 2020 U.S. presidential election, Facebook is stepping up its efforts to ensure it is not used as a tool to interfere in politics and...
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PewDiePie, YouTube's biggest star, tried to make peace; his fans rebelled
Sep 14, 2019 6:00 am - Longtime YouTubers are among the first to know what it means to mature in real time on the Internet. It means constantly reckoning with what you've done online, which is...
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Why so many of your favorite YouTube videos are secretly infomercials
Aug 31, 2019 6:00 am - The Try Guys are playing Jenga Truth or Dare, dressed in animal onesies and having a great time for their 6 million YouTube fans. On the surface, it's a typical video fr...
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A viral Instagram hoax dupes A-listers - and the man overseeing our nuclear arsenal
Aug 22, 2019 1:00 am - The ramifications of Instagram's supposedly new "rule where they can use your photos" weren't totally clear. But the warnings multiplied rapidly online: Your posts could...
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Republican groups vow to stop buying Twitter ads until McConnell campaign account is unfrozen
Aug 08, 2019 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - A move by Twitter to freeze the account of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's campaign has prompted a backlash by President Donald Trump's campaign an...
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YouTube overhauled its algorithms for kids' content amid FTC talks
Aug 03, 2019 6:00 am - In early July, YouTube made a significant change to its software to boost what it deems “quality” children's content, sending waves of traffic to certain video producers...
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FTC to ask about disabling YouTube ads for kids' privacy
Jul 08, 2019 1:00 am - The chairman of the Federal Trade Commission asked children's privacy advocates whether having video creators on YouTube disable ads could resolve concerns the site is v...
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Facebook to ban census interference to allay worries
Jul 01, 2019 1:00 am - Facebook will ban content that misrepresents the 2020 U.S. census to suppress participation by minority communities, the latest step by the social media company to quell...