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Tencent moves into automotive with $150M joint venture
China’s internet firms are getting pally with giant state-owned automakers as they look to deploy their artificial intelligence and cloud…
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Just 1% of Twitter users exposed to 80% of fake news during the 2016 U.S. election
Just a small percentage of Twitter users were responsible for sharing fake news during the 2016 U.S. presidential election, a…
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Facebook urged to give users greater control over what they see
Academics at the universities of Oxford and Stanford think Facebook should give users greater transparency and control over the content…
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Facebook is not equipped to stop the spread of authoritarianism
After the driver of a speeding bus ran over and killed two college students in Dhaka in July, student protesters…
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This study shows why people fall for fake online profiles
The first step in conducting online propaganda efforts and misinformation campaigns is almost always a fake social media profile. Phony…
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The year social networks were no longer social
The term “social network” has become a meaningless association of words. Pair those two words and it becomes a tech…
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Twitter’s newest feature is reigniting the ‘iPhone vs Android’ war
Twitter’s newest feature is reigniting the flame war between iOS and Android owners. The U.S. social media company’s latest addition is…
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The best new social media features of 2018
Social media sites and apps are constantly changing and evolving to match the needs of their user base — for…
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Amnesty International used machine-learning to quantify the scale of abuse against women on Twitter
A new study by Amnesty International and Element AI attempts to put numbers to a problem many women already know…
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Facebook’s got 99 problems but Trump’s latest “bias” tweet ain’t one
By any measure Facebook hasn’t had the best of years in 2018. But while toxic problems keep piling up and,…
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