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Facebook used less for news as discussion moves towards messaging apps

The use of social media for news has started to fall in a number of key markets after years of continuous growth, according to the seventh annual Digital News Report from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism ...

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Jun 14, 2018
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Squashing cyberbullying: New approach is fast, accurate

Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have designed a new technique for spotting nasty personal attacks on social media networks like Instagram.

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Jun 11, 2018
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What's trending in fake news? Tools show which stories go viral, and if 'bots' are to blame

Researchers at the Indiana University Observatory on Social Media have launched upgrades to two tools playing a major role in countering the spread of misinformation online.

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May 17, 2018
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How artificial intelligence can detect – and create – fake news

When Mark Zuckerberg told Congress Facebook would use artificial intelligence to detect fake news posted on the social media site, he wasn't particularly specific about what that meant. Given my own work using image and video ...

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May 03, 2018
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Google and Facebook won't rule the world – if we don't buy their fantasies about big data

From micro-targeted advertisements to Russian social media sleeper agents and doorstep canvassers armed with conversation scripts based on personality profiles, data-driven tools and techniques appear to be providing increasingly ...

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May 03, 2018
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Soft terms like 'open' and 'sharing' don't tell the true story of your data

The Turnbull government today announced the creation of a new National Data Commissioner to oversee the implementation of greater data access and "sharing" in Australia.

Internet Security

May 01, 2018
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Gmail's new 'confidential mode' offers more privacy controls—but don't get too comfortable

In rolling out major updates to Gmail, Google announced Wednesday that the popular email service will soon feature a new "confidential mode" that promises to give users more control over who sees the emails they send, and ...

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Apr 26, 2018
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Delete Facebook? Nope, Facebook is growing

Congratulations everyone: You really showed Facebook.

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Apr 26, 2018
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'Squadbox' uses 'friendsourcing' to better support targets of cyberbullying

Harassment has become ubiquitous on social media and in the online world- Twitter has been under fire for how it handles harassment, YouTube's trending algorithm has occasionally promoted offensive videos, and reporting abuse ...

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Apr 05, 2018
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DNS service announced, puts privacy first

A new service that is offering privacy protection when you browse the web was announced Sunday. The security company Cloudflare is delivering a consumer DNS service called 1.1.1.1.

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Apr 02, 2018
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How Cambridge Analytica's Facebook targeting model really worked – according to the person who built it

The researcher whose work is at the center of the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data analysis and political advertising uproar has revealed that his method worked much like the one Netflix uses to recommend movies.

Internet

Mar 30, 2018
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Voice assistants will have to build trust before we're comfortable with them tracking us

We're all used to targeted advertisements on the internet. But the introduction of voice assistants like Apple's Siri and Google Assistant mean that companies are capturing all new kinds of data on us, and could build much ...

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Mar 12, 2018
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On Twitter, fake news travels faster than true stories: study

A new study by three MIT scholars has found that false news spreads more rapidly on the social network Twitter than real news does - and by a substantial margin.

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Mar 08, 2018
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DuckDuckGo's Gabe Weinberg on how big internet firms trample our privacy online

DuckDuckGo founder Gabriel Weinberg is among the digital prophets warning us how Google, the Goliath he's been challenging for 10 years with his Paoli-based non-tracking search engine, and other giants of information are ...

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Mar 07, 2018
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Ethereum responds to eclipse attacks described by research trio

In a nutshell, three researchers have described in a paper "Low-Resource Eclipse Attacks on Ethereum's Peer-to-Peer Network" that it is possible to carry out an eclipse attack on the Ethereum network. As important, maintainers ...

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Mar 05, 2018
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Background-swap technology suitable for mobile phones announced

Video creators: Want to swap backgrounds? Knock yourselves out. Google researchers have been working on a way to let you swap out your video backgrounds using a neural network—no green screen required. It's rolling out ...

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Mar 04, 2018
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Tracker finds nearly half of last year's ICO offerings bit the dust

ICO stands for initial coin offering. A startup sells its own crypto token to raise money.

Internet

Feb 27, 2018
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Smartphone data tracking is more than creepy – here's why you should be worried

Smartphones rule our lives. Having information at our fingertips is the height of convenience. They tell us all sorts of things, but the information we see and receive on our smartphones is just a fraction of the data they ...

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Feb 07, 2018
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Facebook patent talk: Seeing who is rich, poor, in the middle

"Socioeconomic group classification based on user features," is a title that evokes an uh-oh just as much as an oh-really.

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Feb 06, 2018
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Love actually: Computer model may decode Facebook emoticons

While the trusty "like" button is still the most popular way to signal approval for Facebook posts, a computer model may help users and businesses navigate the increasingly complicated way people are expressing how they feel ...

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Feb 06, 2018
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Facebook explains how it will prioritize local news

Facebook on Monday said it's prioritizing local news on the social network as part of the tech firm's efforts to encourage more users to interact on and off the site.

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Jan 31, 2018
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Rupert Murdoch wants Facebook to pay for news

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch has seized the moment and weighed in as Facebook struggles to deal with the aftermath of its role in the spread of fake news that affected the U.S. presidential election: He wants Facebook to pay ...

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Jan 26, 2018
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Facebook's smartniks come up with Flicks unit of time

Developers aiming to have all video effects in sync just got a real boost.

Internet

Jan 24, 2018
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Facebook is making a big change to your news feed

Facebook is radically altering the formula that determines what bubbles to the top of people's news feed, part of sweeping changes the giant social network has planned to address growing controversy over the role it plays ...

Internet

Jan 12, 2018
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Trust in digital technology will be the internet's next frontier, for 2018 and beyond

After decades of unbridled enthusiasm – bordering on addiction – about all things digital, the public may be losing trust in technology. Online information isn't reliable, whether it appears in the form of news, search ...

Internet

Jan 04, 2018
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