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The AskHistorians subreddit banned Holocaust deniers (2018)

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There can be no debate with Holocaust deniers. That is a core principle of moderating the...
There can be no debate with Holocaust deniers. That is a core principle of moderating the AskHistorians subreddit, one of the largest history forums on the internet—and a crucial lesson Mark Zuckerberg seemingly does not understand. Zuckerberg got into hot water on Wednesday when he stated that Facebook wouldn’t nec...

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Facebook's Trump decision shows Big Tech is 'way too powerful': Elizabeth Warren

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Progressive Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) on Wednesday applauded the Facebook (FB) oversight board's decision to uphold...
Progressive Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) on Wednesday applauded the Facebook (FB) oversight board's decision to uphold the ban on former President Donald Trump from the site for the time being. But she warned that the move demonstrates the outsized power of the social media platform, and reaffirms her call to bre...

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Facebook will uphold Trump ban but reassess the decision over coming months

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Facebook's Oversight Board ruled to uphold the company's decision to suspend former President Donald Trump's Facebook...
Facebook's Oversight Board ruled to uphold the company's decision to suspend former President Donald Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts.But, the board said, the indefinite timeframe of the suspension "was not appropriate." The board effectively punted the decision on the length of the suspension back to Faceboo...

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Signal Tries to Run the Most Honest Facebook Ad Campaign Ever, Gets Banned

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Graphic: SignalA series of Instagram ads run by the privacy-positive platform Signal got the messaging app...
Graphic: SignalA series of Instagram ads run by the privacy-positive platform Signal got the messaging app booted from the former’s ad platform, according to a blog post Signal published on Tuesday. The ads were meant to show users the bevy of data that Instagram and its parent company Facebook collects on users, by...

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Facebook/Insta may require payment on iOS 14.5 unless you give them your data

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ATT Skirting App Store rules as they go. 3 May 2021 Source: Facebook Facebook and Instagram...
ATT Skirting App Store rules as they go. 3 May 2021 Source: Facebook Facebook and Instagram are desperate for users to give them access to data and are threatening to charge if they say no. As of iOS 14.5, apps must ask a user for permission to track them from app to app. Facebook and Instagram are threatening that ...

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Facebook, Instagram threaten to charge for access unless you give them your data

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ATT Skirting App Store rules as they go. 3 May 2021 Source: Facebook Facebook and Instagram...
ATT Skirting App Store rules as they go. 3 May 2021 Source: Facebook Facebook and Instagram are desperate for users to give them access to data and are threatening to charge if they say no. As of iOS 14.5, apps must ask a user for permission to track them from app to app. Facebook and Instagram are threatening that ...

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Verizon sells Yahoo and AOL businesses to Apollo for $5B

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Verizon will sell its media group to private equity firm Apollo Global Management for $5 billion,...
Verizon will sell its media group to private equity firm Apollo Global Management for $5 billion, the companies announced Monday. The sale allows Verizon to offload properties from the former internet empires of AOL and Yahoo.Verizon will keep a 10% stake in the company and it will be rebranded to just Yahoo.The sal...

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Facebook and the Normalization of Deviance

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When the sociologist Diane Vaughan came up with the term “the normalization of deviance,” she was...
When the sociologist Diane Vaughan came up with the term “the normalization of deviance,” she was referring to NASA administrators’ disregard of the flaw that caused the Challenger space shuttle to explode, in 1986. The idea was that people in an organization can become so accepting of a problem that they no longer ...

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Facebook Asks Users to Enable ATT in Order to Keep Services 'Free of Charge'

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As a way to convince users to enable tracking across other apps and websites, Facebook is...
As a way to convince users to enable tracking across other apps and websites, Facebook is deploying the tactic of telling users that they must enable tracking as part of the App Tracking Transparency framework in iOS 14.5 if they want to help and keep Facebook and Instagram "free of charge." ATT or App Tracking Tran...

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Florida bill will fine social media sites for banning politicians- except Disney

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Facebook approves alcohol, vaping and gambling ads targeting 13-17 year olds

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Facebook is accused of harvesting the data of teenagers and on-selling it to advertisers for targeted...
Facebook is accused of harvesting the data of teenagers and on-selling it to advertisers for targeted alcohol, gambling, vaping and dating ads.Lobby group Reset Australia set up a fake account and created advertisements on Facebook targeting teenagersIt says the results show Facebook treats teenagers as if they are ...

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ACLU says it shares user data with Facebook, a frequent target of criticism

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The American Civil Liberties Union is raising eyebrows after updating its privacy policy to note that...
The American Civil Liberties Union is raising eyebrows after updating its privacy policy to note that it is sharing data with Facebook, one of the companies whose policies it often criticizes.Why it matters: The move shows that even many organizations that don't like Facebook nonetheless find it an effective way to ...

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4chan founder Chris Poole (“Moot”) has left Google

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Chris "Moot" Poole has left Google five years after his hiring made waves.Poole is best known...
Chris "Moot" Poole has left Google five years after his hiring made waves.Poole is best known as the "boy-genius" who created one of the internet's earliest and most infamous messaging boards, 4chan.Poole held several different roles within the company during his five years, starting at its social media arm and even...

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Apple reportedly expanding iMessage to compete with Facebook

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Apple is working on enhancements to iMessage that will help it compete with the more robust...
Apple is working on enhancements to iMessage that will help it compete with the more robust social networking features in Facebook messaging products like WhatsApp, Bloomberg reported on Thursday.Even though Bloomberg's report didn't specify what changes are coming to iMessage or when they're expected to launch, the...

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Mark Zuckerberg announces Facebook is working on a Clubhouse clone

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Monday announced that the company is building audio features where users...
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Monday announced that the company is building audio features where users can engage in real-time conversations with others.These types of features could be used within groups on Facebook, Zuckerberg said.Zuckerberg also announced an upcoming product called Soundbites, short-form audio...

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UK to mount fresh assault on end-to-end encryption in Facebook

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UK Home Secretary Priti Patel will badmouth Facebook's use of end-to-end encryption on Monday evening as...
UK Home Secretary Priti Patel will badmouth Facebook's use of end-to-end encryption on Monday evening as she links the security technology with paedophilia, terrorism, organised crime, and so on. The ever-popular politician will say at the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) event: "Sa...

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Facebook prevents sharing New York Post story on BLM co-founder's real estate

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Facebook has blocked its users from sharing a New York Post article about the real estate...
Facebook has blocked its users from sharing a New York Post article about the real estate purchases of Black Lives Matter (BLM) co-founder Patrisse Cullors.The article mentioned that Cullors had purchased "four high-end homes for $3.2 million" in the United States. It also said that she was seeking real estate in th...

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Facebook could stop 10B impressions from “repeat misinformers”, but doesn't

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Facebook does not need any more bad publicity. The company is currently being publicly scorned after...
Facebook does not need any more bad publicity. The company is currently being publicly scorned after more than 500 million users had their personal information leaked. It has also been faced with an antitrust suit endorsed by more than 40 states since last year, with reports alleging that CEO Mark Zuckerberg would i...

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