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How A Massive Facebook Scam Siphoned Millions Of Dollars From Unsuspecting Boomers
A Facebook Employee Accepted Bribes from a Scammer to Reactivate Ad Accounts
Facebook says it will not weaken end-to-end encryption across its messaging apps, in response to a letter from US AG Bill Barr and UK, Australian officials
NATO-Linked Researchers Bought Fake Social Media Engagements To Test How Facebook, Twitter, And Google Combat Manipulation. The Companies Failed.
Facebook sues a Hong Kong-based company and two persons for compromising user accounts via a browser extension and running deceptive ads using those accounts
Kashmiris, who are subject to an ongoing four month internet shutdown, are losing their WhatsApp accounts because of the platform's policy on inactive accounts
Match Group screens for sex offenders on Match, but not on Tinder or OkCupid, acknowledging "there are definitely registered sex offenders on our free products"
There Are Two Separate Impeachment Hearings Happening Right Now — And Republicans Are Winning Theirs
Her Amazon Purchases Are Real. The Reviews Are Fake
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Twitter Has Suspended Several Accounts Responsible For Spreading “I Hired Donald Trump To Fire People Like Yovanovitch"
A look at Facebook's past views on China and how they changed as TikTok became popular; sources: Facebook held serious acquisition talks with Musical.ly in 2016
Source: Twitter suggests it will allow political ads that spread awareness about issues like climate change, not ads mentioning a specific policy or candidate
Twitter says it will begin a series of experiments within two weeks that tweak functions like the retweet and reply to promote healthier conversations
These Hugely Popular Local News Sites in the US and Canada Are Fake
Apple, Google, and Amazon are distributing apps and products made by Chinese firms that the US has accused of abetting human rights violations
Techmeme · 1 month ago
How One Company Surveils Everything Kids Do and Say in School
Juul Shipped At Least 1M Contaminated Pods, New Lawsuit Says
FOIA docs show a former top DHS official who joined Google was involved in the family separation policy, despite Google's explicit denials to concerned staff
The 2010s Have Broken Our Sense Of Time
Twitter “Silenced” Dissenting Voices During Protests in Egypt: Research
TikTok says its content moderation policies are led by a US-based team and it will not remove content, including posts about Hong Kong, at the behest of China
Sex workers say Instagram keeps taking down accounts, giving confusing guidelines and explanations; Facebook blames moderators' interpretation of guidelines
Techmeme · 2 months ago
How A Massive Facebook Scam Siphoned Millions Of Dollars From Unsuspecting Boomers
Facebook Said Politicians Can Lie In Ads. It’s Taking Down Ads From Warren, Biden, And Trump For Other Reasons.
Sources: in early 2018, Eddy Cue and Morgan Wandell, Apple's international TV lead, asked some Apple TV+ show creators to avoid portraying China in a poor light
Source: Andy Rubin has left Playground Global, the venture firm he founded, in May; Rubin's departure was accompanied by $9M+ payout
Amazon cancels contracts with three delivery firms, after report about shoddy working conditions and fatal accidents at Amazon's subcontracted delivery network
Techmeme · 2 months ago
Blizzard is facing an intense backlash after banning a player over Hong Kong pro-democracy comments, with some fans boycotting its games
The US Just Blacklisted China’s Most Valuable Facial Recognition Startups Over Human Rights Abuses
Instagram is removing the Activity feed's Following tab, which showed users what their friends were liking, saying that few people used it
Techmeme · 2 months ago
Instagram Won’t Say Whether It Will Protect The Identity Of An Anonymous Account Sharing #MeToo Allegations
Reddit · 2 months ago
Political Operatives Are Faking Voter Outrage With Millions Of Made-Up Comments To Benefit The Rich And Powerful
Hundreds of Propaganda Accounts Targeting Iran and Qatar Removed from Facebook
The New Way To Hack Democracy: How Political Operators Are Impersonating Real Americans To Flood The Government With Fake Comments
AG Barr Will Ask Zuckerberg to Halt Plans for E2E Encryption Across FB Apps
Twitter Is OK With A Pro-Trump Militia’s Tweets About A "Full-Blown ‘Hot’ Civil War"
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Google quietly removed at least 46 apps from the Play store belonging to iHandy, a major Chinese developer, but won't comment on the reason for the removals
Match.com Allegedly Tricked People Into Paying For Subscriptions And Exposed Them To Scammers
Facebook's content moderation policies are difficult to apply given the breadth of cases, and poor communication between contractors and FB cripples the system
Instagram’s Opioid Recovery Hashtags Are Full Of Drug Dealers
Reddit · 3 months ago
Facebook takes down fact-check of anti-abortion video following complaints from GOP senators alleging bias; Facebook's fact-checking partner is investigating
Photos and videos on private Facebook and Instagram accounts can be shared publicly by followers via source URLs, even after Stories expire or media is deleted
Techmeme · 3 months ago