Month: December 2019
Running A Neighbourhood Facebook Group Has Become A Seriously Complicated Job
Amanda van Keimpema was exhausted. The resident of Canungra, a small rural town in Queensland, Australia, had been working 16-hour days for a week straight while bushfires raged nearby in late September this year. She put her business on hold and dedicated her time to working with emergency services, the…
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Elon Musk Beat The “Pedo Guy” Defamation Suit In A Dramatic Victory
LOS ANGELES — Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk successfully defended himself in a lawsuit brought by a British cave explorer after a California-based jury found that the billionaire had not defamed the plaintiff by calling him a “pedo guy” on Twitter. On his way out of the court, the…
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NATO-Linked Researchers Bought Fake Social Media Engagements To Test How Facebook, Twitter, And Google Combat Manipulation. The Companies Failed.
Reuters / File photo A year ahead of the US presidential election, the world’s biggest social media companies are still failing to tackle manipulation on their platforms, an exercise by NATO StratCom has found. To test the ability of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram to detect potentially malicious activity, researchers…
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Kashmiris Are Disappearing From WhatsApp
tech Kashmiris enduring their region’s ongoing internet blackout are losing their WhatsApp accounts because of the platform’s policy on inactive accounts. By Pranav Dixit Reporting From New Delhi Pranav Dixit BuzzFeed News Reporter Reporting From New Delhi Last updated on December 5, 2019, at 2:07 a.m. ET Posted on December…
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Facebook Said A Chinese Company Compromised Users With Malware And Then Ran Ads Using Their Accounts
Facebook is suing a Hong Kong–based company and two Chinese citizens it says used malware to compromise user accounts in order to run millions of dollars of deceptive Facebook ads that often featured celebrities. The company filed the federal lawsuit Thursday in California against ILikeAd Media International Company, Chen Xiao…
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Google’s Cofounders Are Stepping Down. Sundar Pichai Will Become The CEO Of Google And Alphabet.
Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who cofounded Google in 1998, are stepping down from their day-to-day roles at Google’s parent company, Alphabet, and handing leadership responsibility to Sundar Pichai, who will serve as CEO of both Google and Alphabet moving forward. Previously, Page served as CEO of Alphabet and Brin…
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