Researcher seeks to understand the regret behind social media use
It started as a desire to spend less time on social media.
Nov 18, 2021
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Kids may be red line in Facebook regulation fight: experts
Facebook's previous major scandals barely dented its global dominance, but experts said Wednesday the tech giant may have hit a red line this time: evidence that it knew children using its apps were at risk of being harmed.
Oct 7, 2021
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Instagram and teens: How to keep your kids safe
For many parents, revelations this week from whistleblower Frances Haugen showing internal Facebook studies of the harms of Instagram for teenagers only intensified concerns about the popular photo sharing app.
Oct 6, 2021
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Here's what Facebook says triggered the massive outage on its apps
Facebook Inc. blamed a global service outage that kept its social media apps offline for much of Monday on a problem with its network configuration, adding that it found no evidence that user data was compromised during the ...
Oct 5, 2021
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Consumer & Gadgets
Facebook, Ray-Ban launch smart glasses—who will wear them?
Seven years after the ill-fated Google Glass, and five years after Snap rolled out Spectacles, another tech giant is trying its hand at internet-connected smart glasses, hoping that this time around things might be different ...
Sep 9, 2021
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Chinese regulators to exercise more control over algorithms
Chinese regulators will exercise greater control over the algorithms used by Chinese technology firms to personalize and recommend content, the latest move in a regulation spree across the internet sector.
Aug 27, 2021
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In Tokyo, social platforms help the Pandemic Olympics shine
A condom fixed Jessica Fox's canoe, and skateboarder Jagger Eaton celebrated his bronze medal by broadcasting live on Instagram. Margielyn Didal "let" Tony Hawk take a picture with her to post on Facebook.
Aug 5, 2021
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Smartphones and contact-tracing: Balancing care and surveillance
The astonishing rise of smartphones in everyday life has created many solutions (GPS maps, internet browsing and messaging, to name just a few). But they have also brought new moral dilemmas. One issue in particular stands ...
Jun 22, 2021
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Advertising and Android apps: A detailed study of data privacy
The concept of privacy in the age of the web and social media remains high on the agenda for many people—those on the business and marketing side who would like to advertise with greater precision and those on the consumer ...
Jun 21, 2021
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WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger suffer brief outages
Social media platforms WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger all went down in a brief outage at around 1730 GMT on Friday, according to the tech monitoring website Downdetector.
Mar 19, 2021
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