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Dark patterns explained by online media expert
Dark patterns are design elements that deliberately obscure, mislead, coerce and/or deceive website visitors into making unintended and possibly harmful choices.
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AP, Reuters to help Twitter elevate more credible info
Twitter has signed a deal with The Associated Press and Reuters to help elevate accurate information on its platform. Twitter said Monday that the program will expand its existing work to help explain why certain subjects ...
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Fast internet everywhere could add $160 billion to US economy
The U.S. economy stands to gain $160 billion a year in extra output from a successful national high-speed internet plan that would boost labor productivity and allow more people to work from home, according to new research.
Jul 29, 2021
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Is Facebook 'killing us'? A new study investigates
Following the Surgeon General's July 15 advisory on health misinformation and social media, President Joe Biden remarked that Facebook and other social media platforms are "killing people." Though Biden quickly backpedaled ...
Jul 29, 2021
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COVID shutdown: Twitter closes San Francisco and New York offices as Delta coronavirus cases surge
Twitter has closed its San Francisco and New York offices as COVID-19 cases surge from the highly contagious delta variant, the latest sign that companies are rethinking their reopening plans and taking new precautions against ...
Jul 29, 2021
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Russia fines Google for violating data storage law
A Moscow court ordered Google on Thursday to pay a fine of 3 million rubles (roughly $41,000) for refusing to store the personal data of Russian users on servers in Russia, a move that is part of the government's longstanding ...
Jul 29, 2021
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'Metaverse': the next internet revolution?
Imagine a world where you could sit on the same couch as a friend who lives thousands of miles away, or conjure up a virtual version of your workplace while at the beach.
Jul 28, 2021
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Twitter tests shopping in e-commerce move
Twitter on Wednesday began testing a feature allowing businesses sell goods from their profile pages at the one-to-many messaging platform.
Jul 28, 2021
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Facebook's new privacy changes for Instagram's teen users met with both praise, scrutiny
Facing an onslaught of ongoing criticism, Facebook said that it's taking several steps to make Instagram safer and private for teens.
Jul 27, 2021
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Facebook assembles team to build 'metaverse'
Facebook on Monday said it was combining specialists from across its hardware, gaming and virtual reality units to build an immersive digital world known as the "metaverse."
Jul 27, 2021
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Fight for control threatens to destabilize and fragment the internet
You try to use your credit card, but it doesn't work. In fact, no one's credit card works. You try to go to some news sites to find out why, but you can't access any of those, either. Neither can anyone else. Panic-buying ...
Jul 27, 2021
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Instagram adds safety features after critics fret over service for children
Instagram on Tuesday introduced changes designed to keep young users safer by making them harder to find at the image-centric social network.
Jul 27, 2021
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Twitter wants everybody on the platform to potentially make more money with, and for, them
Twitter is outright blatant when it says it wants to make money for you—and for them—through its slew of new features including Super Follows and Tip Jar. That's a big boast and subsequent bet as the social media platform ...
Jul 23, 2021
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Can Facebook's $1 bn gamble help it regain lost cool?
Like internet personalities the world over, Kenyan TikTok comedian Mark Mwas was intrigued when Facebook announced a $1 billion plan to pay content creators like him.
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