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Facebook suspends Cubeyou over harvesting data claims
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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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YouTube is pulling Tide Pod Challenge videos
Why? Uh, because they're brightly colored?? We guess???????
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Page speed will soon affect Google Search results on mobile
The change will officially begin this July.
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YouTuber Shane Dawson hits out at video claiming he was a paedophile
IN THE wake of one of YouTube’s biggest personalities being punished for filming a dead man, the world is turning on another star.
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YouTube drops Logan Paul from Google Preferred and puts his Originals on hold
YouTube has taken further action against social media star Logan Paul
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Parents Are Talking To Their Kids About Logan Paul And Trying To Control Their YouTube Consumption
Parents are struggling with establishing new internet boundaries. A mom told BuzzFeed News she believes Logan Paul's video was "a wake-up call."
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Logan and Jake Paul: The brothers dominating social media
The brothers are superstars to millions of teens who have subscribed to their popular YouTube channels, bought their merchandise and can chant all the lyrics to their raps.
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Google auto-detects your whereabouts to get local search results
You can't get results tailored for another country just by changing the country code anymore.
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Spotify launches an app for artists with real-time streaming data, audience demographics
Essentially, this new "Spotify for Artists" app, as it's called, is a mobile version of Spotify's artist dashboard, which exited beta earlier this year.
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Facebook will let you push a button to figure out if a story you're reading is fake news
- The new feature will allow Facebook users to tap a button for additional information about the news article and source.
- Facebook has come under pressure in recent weeks to better combat the spread of fake news and misinformation.
- "This new feature is designed to provide people some of the tools they need to make an informed decision about which stories to read, share, and trust," the company said in a statement.
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Snapchat Use Is Down 34% Among Top Influencers
Data on top influencers shows they’ve been posting less and less on Snapchat in the last six months.
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Mum’s warning to parents as daughter, 12, groomed over Kik Messenger app
SARAH is a self-described helicopter parent.
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YouTube says it's removing terrorist and extremist content faster
Alphabet's Google is stepping up the battle against extremist content by introducing new measures to identify & remove extremist content from its video sharing platform YouTube. Newslook
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Porn ID checks set to start in April 2018
A nine-month countdown to the introduction of compulsory age checks on online pornography seen from the UK has begun.
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Twitter launches its biggest redesign in years
There'll also be design changes that go beyond just the iOS app
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