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Facebook launches ‘Hunt for False News’ debunk blog as fakery drops 50%

[ad_1] [ad_1] hopes detailing concrete examples of fake news it’s caught — or missed — could improve news literacy, or at least prove it’s attacking the misinformation problem. Today [ad_2] “The Hunt for False News,” in which it examines viral…

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October 22, 2018

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Twitter widens its view of bad actors to fight election fiddlers

[ad_1] [ad_1] has announced more changes to its rules to try to make it harder for people to use its platform to spread politically charged disinformation and thereby erode democratic processes. In an [ad_2] on its “elections integrity work” yesterday, the…

LMWS Asia

October 2, 2018

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European parliament gives thumbs up to controversial copyright reforms

[ad_1] The [ad_1] has just voted to back [embedded content] — including supporting an extension to cover snippets of publishers content (Article 11), and to make platforms that hold significant amounts of content liable for copyright violations by their users…

LMWS Asia

September 12, 2018

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Facebook bans first app since Cambridge Analytica, myPersonality, and suspends hundreds more

[ad_1] [ad_1] [ed] that it had banned the app myPersonality for improper data controls and suspended hundreds more. So far this is only the second app to be banned as a result of the company’s large-scale audit begun in March;…

LMWS Asia

August 23, 2018

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Facebook launches a digital literacy library aimed at educators

[ad_1] [ad_1] this morning announced the launch of a new set of educational resources focused on helping young people think critically and behave thoughtfully online. The [ad_2], as the new site is being called, is aimed at educators of children…

LMWS Asia

August 3, 2018

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Yes, open office plans are the worst

[ad_1] If you’re endlessly distracted by your co-workers in the gaping open office space you all share, you’re not alone. Compared to traditional office spaces, face-to-face interaction in open office spaces is down 70 percent with resulting slips in productivity,…

LMWS Asia

July 14, 2018

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Facebook mistakenly leaked developer analytics reports to testers

[ad_1] Set the “days without a [ad_1] privacy problem” counter to zero. This week, an alarmed developer contacted TechCrunch, informing us that their Facebook App Analytics weekly summary email had been delivered to someone outside their company. It contains sensitive…

LMWS Asia

June 24, 2018

Social Media

It’s OK to leave Facebook

[ad_1] The slow-motion privacy train wreck that is [ad_1] has many users, perhaps you, thinking about leaving or at least changing the way you use the social network. Fortunately for everyone but Mark Zuckerberg, it’s not nearly has hard to…

LMWS Asia

June 4, 2018

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Anyone could download Cambridge researchers’ 4-million-user Facebook data set for years

[ad_1] A data set of more than 3 million [ad_1] users and a variety of their personal details collected by Cambridge researchers was available for anyone to download for some four years, [IF YOU ARE A STUDENT PLEASE HAVE YOU…

LMWS Asia

May 15, 2018

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Twitter axed 142k spammy apps and 130M ‘low-quality’ Tweets in 1 week of Q1

[ad_1] Twitter is making good on its pledge to fight the persistent problems of spam, bots, harassment, and misinformation that have plagued the social platform for years. Today, in its [ad_1], the company announced that changes that it has made…

LMWS Asia

April 25, 2018

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Australia latest to open probe into Facebook data scandal

[ad_1] Australia’s [ad_1] watchdog has opened an investigation into Facebook in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica data misuse scandal.Yesterday [ad_2] revealed that more users than previously thought could have had their personal information passed to the company back in…

LMWS Asia

April 5, 2018

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Facebook launches Express Wi-Fi app for its local-operated hotspots

[ad_1] [ad_1] wants you to pay for internet. This week TechCrunch was tipped off that Facebook had quietly launched an Express Wi-Fi Android [ad_2] that lets users buy data packs and find nearby hotspots as part of Facebook’s distributed Wi-Fi network.…

LMWS Asia

March 16, 2018