Twitter is rolling out its new verification program, with revamped categories that include activists and journalists, and previews upcoming changes to profiles
It also previewed potential changes coming to profiles — Twitter is relaunching its public verification program, allowing anyone to apply for a coveted blue check mark.
News Corp announces a multi-year, global partnership with Google to provide content from its news sites “in return for significant payments by Google”
In the face of proposed regulation in Australia that would require tech giants … Jared Newman / Fast Company : Facebook has banned Australian news, but there's a workaround Financi...
Ahead of proposed media law, Facebook bans Australians from sharing or viewing news and all users from sharing and viewing news on Australian news Pages
In response to Australia's proposed new Media Bargaining law, Facebook will restrict publishers and people in Australia from sharing …
Internal memo from a fired Facebook data scientist says large amounts of inauthentic bot activity has boosted many countries' leaders, with Facebook slow to act
Facebook ignored or was slow to act on evidence that fake accounts on its platform have been undermining elections …
Sources: the FBI and DHS are preparing to accuse China of attempting to hack vaccine data from academic and private laboratories
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Reporters identified a Secret Service agent, his home address, family details, and tracked Trump's movements using the leaked dataset obtained by the NYT
IF YOU OWN A MOBILE PHONE, its every move is logged and tracked by dozens of companies. No one is beyond the reach of this constant digital surveillance.
Leaked dataset from a location data company with a log of the movements of 12M+ Americans shows how “anonymous” location data can be used to track people
and it's not hard to figure out who you are Whitney Kimball / Gizmodo : Holy Shit, Reportedly Jerry Hildenbrand / Android Central : Your phone tracks your every move and there is n...
Leaked dataset from a location data company reveals a log of the movements of 12M+ Americans with 50B location pings across major cities between 2016 and 2017
EVERY MINUTE OF EVERY DAY, everywhere on the planet, dozens of companies — largely unregulated, little scrutinized …
Twitter says it will begin a series of experiments within two weeks that tweak functions like the retweet and reply to promote healthier conversations
Twitter knows we treat each other terribly on Twitter. We dunk, ridiculing friends and strangers via quote-tweets. We ratio, piling on replies to bad tweets.
Zuckerberg struggles to explain why Facebook News' “trusted” sources include Breitbart News, says Facebook wants “to include a breadth of content in there”
On Friday morning, Facebook announced its plan to spend millions of dollars on high-quality journalism …
Facebook's survey to rank trust of publications asks two questions: “Do you recognize the following websites” and “How much do you trust each of these domains?”
Last week, Facebook said its News Feed would prioritize links from publications its users deemed “trustworthy” in an upcoming survey.