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Instagram adds support for third-party authenticators to let you bypass text-based 2FA
Two weeks after an unusually high number of users broadcasted complaints of hacked accounts, Instagram is giving users more ways…
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Facebook bans Myanmar military accounts for ‘enabling human rights abuses’
Facebook is cracking down on the military leadership in Myanmar, the Southeast Asian country where the social network has been identified…
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For IGTV, Instagram needs slow to mean steady
Instagram has never truly failed at anything, but judging by modest initial view counts, IGTV could get stuck with a…
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The top 10 startups from Y Combinator’s Demo Day S’18 Day 2
59 startups took the stage at Y Combinator’s Demo Day 2 and among the highlights were a company that helps…
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Say ‘Aloha’: A closer look at Facebook’s voice ambitions
Facebook has been a bit slow to adopt the voice computing revolution. It has no voice assistant, its smart speaker…
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Facebook is going back to college
Kids these days take a greater interest in practical things than we give them credit for. For example, this summer…
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Analytics firm Crimson Hexagon regains Facebook access following scrutiny over government contracts
Nearly a month after being suspended by Facebook following a high-profile Wall Street Journal story scrutinizing its contracts with government…
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Instagram is investigating user reports of hacked accounts
Over the past week, there’s been an uptick in users reporting on Reddit and Twitter that their Instagram accounts have…
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Openbook is the latest dream of a digital life beyond Facebook
As tech’s social giants wrestle with antisocial demons that appear to be both an emergent property of their platform power,…
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Fake news inquiry calls for social media levy to defend democracy
A UK parliamentary committee which has been running a multi-month investigation into the impact of online disinformation on political campaigning…
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