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Facebook under pressure over Soros smear tactics
Facebook is facing calls to conduct an external investigation into its own lobbying and PR activities by an aide to…
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Zuckerberg rejects facetime call for answers from five parliaments
Facebook has declined once again to send its CEO to the UK parliament — this time turning down an invitation…
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Limiting social media use reduced loneliness and depression in new experiment
The idea that social media can be harmful to our mental and emotional well-being is not a new one, but…
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White House pushes ridiculous ‘assault’ video to defend reporter ban
Sarah Huckabee Sanders yesterday accused CNN’s Jim Acosta of “inappropriate behavior” towards a White House intern, citing this as…
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This tool is like Buffer for Instagram stories
Stories are short, ephemeral blobs of content — videos and pictures, mostly — which Snapchat popularized in 2013, followed…
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Study of political junk on Facebook raises fresh questions about its metrics
A midterms election study of political disinformation being fenced by Facebook’s platform supports the company’s assertion that a clutch of…
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Twitter is sorry about that whole ‘Kill all Jews’ thing
Many New Yorkers awoke to a bit of a surprise when “Kill all Jews” briefly made an appearance in their…
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Consumers trust influencers more than they trust you (VB Live)
Influencer marketing is kind of like word-of-mouth recommendations on the world stage — and it’s paying off. For every dollar…
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Influencer marketing is bullshit
Pop quiz time: What’s estimated to be worth between $5 and $10 billion by 2020 and is (at least, in…
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Zuckerberg gets joint summons from UK and Canadian parliaments
Two separate parliamentary committees, in the UK and Canada, have issued an unprecedented international joint summons for Facebook’s CEO Mark…
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