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Facebook will not remove fake news - but will 'demote' it
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WhatsApp fights hoax messages in India after rumors led to killings
WhatsApp is working on a new feature to help prevent the spread of hoax messages in India after a spate of lynchings were triggered by rumors shared on the messaging service.
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Instagram Stories, Now Twice as Big as Snapchat, Adds Music Integration
The company also recently announced an integration with Spotify, letting users share music from the Spotify app directly to Instagram Stories.
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Instagram Lite quietly launches on Google Play and it takes up less space on phone
The Google Play page notes features such as messaging friends or sharing videos will be available soon.
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Instagram launches long-form video in bid to lure YouTube generation
Videos of up to an hour are effort to pull young users away from rival, and to allow Facebook to sell more ads
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Fears mount over WhatsApp's role in spreading fake news
App blamed for circulating false information in India, Brazil, Kenya and now the UK
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Yahoo fined £250,000 over cyber-attack
Yahoo's UK arm has been fined £250,000 ($335,000) by the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) over a data breach affecting more than 500 million users which took place in 2014.
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Children exposed to horror film ads on YouTube
Children were left distressed after seeing ads for a horror film on YouTube, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has revealed.
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Microsoft Buys GitHub for $7.5 Billion, Moving to Grow in Coding’s New Era
GitHub, founded in 2008 and based in San Francisco, was created largely as a community for software developers to share programming tools and code.
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security Why we need google ourselves
THE trend of searching your name on Google has died down, but there is a very important reason why we should pick up the habit again.
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Analysis: Snapchat needs to grow up
Snapchat is in trouble. The stock plunged to a new all-time low, below $11 a share, after a dismal earnings report that showed stagnant user growth for the social networking app.
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Twitter is telling everyone to change their password after a bug left 330 million passwords exposed
The company also said it is taking steps to ensure the bug does not happen again.
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Logan Paul ends daily YouTube vlog series
Logan Paul - one of YouTube's most popular and controversial video-makers - has announced he will no longer release material on a "daily" basis.
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Google to improve YouTube Kids app to let parents control what children watch
Enhanced controls will allow parents to handpick videos among a host of new features, but campaigners say YouTube must do more
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Vevo Music Videos Hacked (Report)
YouTube disabled access to clips from the service after hackers attacked the clip for "Despacito" and videos for Drake, Taylor Swift, Selena Gomez and Shakira.
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Facebook suspends Cubeyou over harvesting data claims
Case of New York company’s alleged information collection under guise of academic research echoes Cambridge Analytica scandal
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Facebook privacy settings revamped after scandal
Facebook says an overhaul of its privacy tools will make it easier for people to find and edit the personal information the company holds.
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Reddit dragged into Russian propaganda row
Russian propagandists targeted the popular news-sharing website Reddit to influence American political debate, a US website has claimed.
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Google Chrome launches default ad-blocker
Google has launched an ad-blocker for its Chrome web browser that is designed to prevent "annoying" and "intrusive" ads being shown to users.
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A Facebook employee asked a reporter to turn off his phone so Facebook couldn't track its location — and it reveals a bigger problem within the company
* Facebook protects itself against leaks by tracking down the leakers and firing them.
* One Facebook employee who anonymously spoke with Wired recently asked the reporter to turn off his phone so the company couldn't track their location.
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