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2018-03-21

Cambridge Analytica Claim To Sway Elections With Facebook Data

If Cambridge Analytica can sway elections using a relatively small subset of Facebook’s data, what can Facebook do with the full set?

2018-03-20

On Twitter Fake News Gets More Traction Than Truth

MIT scientists find evidence that Fake News spreads farther, faster, deeper and more broadly than the Truth in all information categories.

2018-03-19

Millions Of Facebook Profiles Were ‘Harvested’ In US Election Breach

50m Facebook profiles were collected and analysed for the Trump campaign by Cambridge Analytica in a huge data breach.

2018-03-16

Cyberbullying Attacks the Young

Facebook, Snapchat & Twitter stand accused of failing to protect young people from harassment, with consequent mental health problems.

2018-03-01

The Web Is Dying. Make Way For The Trinet

The underlying dynamics of power on the Web have changed and three companies are at the center of a fundamental transformation of the Web.

2018-02-27

Eight Reasons Why Facebook Has Peaked

Suspicions are growing that Mark Zuckerberg and his team have unleashed something that they cannot control, and may have already peaked.

2018-02-19

Facebook Personal Data Use & Privacy Settings Ruled Illegal

German court rules that Facebook collects and uses personal data without providing enough information to users for them to give meaningful consent.

2018-02-16

Facebook Enables 'Fake News'

Digital Deceit: More people are coming to the conclusion that social networking is an overall negative for society.

2018-02-16

Inspired: China Measures Citizens' Trustworthiness

China is exploring how AI & Big Data can be used to monitor social media interactions and has plans to assign citizens a 'social-reliability' rating.

2018-02-05

Facebook & Google Are ‘A Menace to Society’

Facebook and Google have become “obstacles to innovation” and are a “menace” to society whose “days are numbered”.

2018-01-31

You Probably Don’t Know All the Ways Facebook Tracks You

When you sign up with Facebook you become their product. You might not realise just how deep or extensive their tracking of your behaviour goes.

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