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Google Chrome has become surveillance software. It’s time to switch.
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YouTube to Remove Thousands of Videos Pushing Extreme Views
The company also said that channels that “repeatedly brush up against our hate speech policies,” but don’t violate them outright, would be removed from YouTube’s advertising program, which allows channel owners to share in the advertising revenue their videos generate.
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Paying to promote your tweets won’t do much for your personal brand
Why do people spend money on them?
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YouTube is changing how subscriber counts are displayed, possibly shifting its culture
Sites like Social Blade may be impacted
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Facebook redesigns iOS and web, dark mode coming soon
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Teen hits Apple with $1B lawsuit over facial recognition arrest
The 18-year-old says he was wrongly accused of stealing from Apple stores.
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Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp go down across US, Europe, parts of Asia
All Facebook-owned social media platforms went down across parts of the US, Europe and Asia on Sunday, raising concerns about the social network’s stranglehold on billions of users.
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Hundreds of millions of Facebook records exposed on Amazon cloud servers
Researchers found two third-party Facebook app developers had been storing user data on a publicly accessible Amazon Web Services server.
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Change your Facebook password right now
Facebook left millions of user passwords readable by its employees for years, the company admitted after a security researcher exposed the lapse.
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Facebook Apologizes for Outages, Says It Has Resolved ‘Server Configuration’ Error That Led to Access Problems
Facebook first acknowledged the problems in a tweet Wednesday at 1:49 p.m. ET
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Facebook, Instagram suffer outages
Facebook has confirmed it is aware of outages on its platforms including Facebook, Messenger and Instagram.
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Google slammed over privacy invasions
The global pressure on Google has intensified, with US politicians attacking the tech titan’s continual collection of data even after users believed they had opted out.
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YouTube's copyright claim system abused by extorters
Google has removed a YouTube channel after it was found to be abusing copyright claims to extort money from users.
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Happy Birthday, Facebook! A short history of the social network’s biggest gaffes
Facebook turns 15 today and to reflect on how the world has changed since Mark Zuckerberg first dreamt up what would become a scandal-plagued global behemoth, RT looks back at some of its biggest controversies.
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Twitter warns that private tweets were public for years
Private tweets sent by users of Twitter's Android app could have been exposed publicly for years.
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