A tracking tool installed on many hospitals’ websites has been collecting patients’ sensitive health information—including details about their medical conditions, prescriptions, and doctor’s appointments—and sending … Facebook Is Receiving Sensitive Medical Information from Hospital WebsitesRead more
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LAPD partnered with tech firm that enables secretive online spying
The Los Angeles police department pursued a contract with a controversial technology company that could enable police to use fake social media accounts to surveil … LAPD partnered with tech firm that enables secretive online spyingRead more
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How Legal Loopholes and Facebook’s Policies Helped India’s BJP in Elections
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How Facebook Programmed Our Relatives
Three years ago, on his birthday, a law professor watched his e-mail inbox fill with Facebook notifications indicating that friends had posted messages on his … How Facebook Programmed Our RelativesRead more
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Social media makes it difficult to identify real news
The study found that people viewing a blend of news and entertainment on a social media site tended to pay less attention to the source … Social media makes it difficult to identify real newsRead more
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How Facebook let fake engagement distort global politics
Shortly before Sophie Zhang lost access to Facebook’s systems, she published one final message on the company’s internal forum, a farewell tradition at Facebook known … How Facebook let fake engagement distort global politicsRead more
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Facebook planned to remove fake accounts in India
Facebook allowed a network of fake accounts to artificially inflate the popularity of an MP from India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata party (BJP), for months after … Facebook planned to remove fake accounts in IndiaRead more
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How Can Climate Activists Fight Misinformation?
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BJP Gets Cheaper Ad Rates on Facebook Due to its Polarising Content
Facebook’s algorithm grossly favours Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) advertisements because of the divisive nature of the content, as revealed by part four of a year-long … BJP Gets Cheaper Ad Rates on Facebook Due to its Polarising ContentRead more