Consumer & Gadgets
After the U.S. Supreme Court's controversial decision in June 2022 to overturn Roe v. Wade and eliminate an almost 50-year federal right to abortion, data privacy advocates are sounding the alarm about the potential dangers ...
Aug 10, 2022
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Business
Instagram will pause features that users have campaigned against and complained make the social network too much like TikTok, according to a report in the Platformer tech newsletter Thursday.
Jul 29, 2022
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Consumer & Gadgets
The Observatory on Social Media, or OSoMe, at Indiana University has launched three new or revamped no-cost research tools to give journalists, other researchers and the public a broad view of what's happening on social media.
Jul 28, 2022
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Consumer & Gadgets
Marginalized social media users face disproportionate content removal from platforms, but the visibility of this online moderation is a double-edged sword.
Jul 27, 2022
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Internet
Facebook is rolling out an update that enables its 2 billion daily users to more easily view their friends' posts in chronological order.
Jul 22, 2022
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Internet
Social media users posted ideas about how to protect people's reproductive privacy when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, including entering "junk" data into apps designed for tracking menstrual cycles.
Jul 8, 2022
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Consumer & Gadgets
When English statesman Sir Francis Bacon famously said "knowledge is power," he could hardly have foreseen the rise of ubiquitous social media some 500 years later.
Jul 6, 2022
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Internet
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said he opened an investigation of Twitter, claiming the social media platform may be misleading people with false reporting of its bot accounts, violating the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices ...
Jun 7, 2022
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Internet
Sometimes when we are reading a good book, it's like we are transported into another world and we stop paying attention to what's around us.
May 23, 2022
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Computer Sciences
It seems like yet another punchline for anyone joking about the past two years of pandemic life. But to scientists forecasting future disease outbreaks, it's important data.
May 18, 2022
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