Would you take a Facebook or Instagram break? Why civil rights groups want you to log out
Would you log off from Facebook and Instagram for a day? How about three?
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The broad economic and political impacts of internet restrictions
In 2016, Meicen Sun came to a profound realization: "The control of digital information will lie at the heart of all the big questions and big contentions in politics." A graduate student in her final year of study who is ...
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Apple, Google raise new concerns by yanking Russian app
Big Tech companies that operate around the globe have long promised to obey local laws and to protect civil rights while doing business. But when Apple and Google capitulated to Russian demands and removed a political-opposition ...
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Facebook oversight board reviewing 'XCheck' system for VIPs
Facebook's semi-independent oversight board says it will review the company's "XCheck," or cross check, system following an investigation by The Wall Street Journal into the use of this internal system that has exempted high-profile ...
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Facebook seeks to defend itself after scathing reports
Facebook on Tuesday fired back after a series of withering Wall Street Journal reports that the company failed to keep users safe, with the social media giant noting an increase in staff and spending on battling abuses.
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TikTok is on the Gabby Petito case. Are these true crime sleuths helping solve it?
The Gabby Petito case is the latest social media whodunit for a true-crime obsessed generation on TikTok.
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Giving families better access to the digital assets of deceased loved ones
A new report highlights the extent of the distress caused by being cut off from digital assets when family members die or become incapacitated.
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Undersea internet cables connect Pacific islands to the world, but geopolitical tension is tugging at the wires
If you've ever emailed a resort in Fiji or Vanuatu about that long-awaited holiday, it's likely your email traveled through an undersea internet cable. Such cables carry much of the internet traffic around the globe, in conjunction ...
Sep 20, 2021
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How to delete or deactivate your Instagram account
Maybe it's the pandemic doomscrolling, the unsettling revelations about how toxic Instagram is for teenage girls, or you are just craving more time for IRL moments with the people you love and less time oversharing your life ...
Sep 20, 2021
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Facebook overrun by COVID vaccine lies even as it denied fueling hesitancy, report says
Anti-vaccine activists flooded Facebook to sow doubt about the COVID-19 vaccines, overwhelming efforts to stop them, even as the company told the world that it was not responsible for vaccine hesitancy, a new report from ...
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