WhatsApp appears to be the latest social media platform to run afoul of Indonesia’s censorship rules.
The populous Southeast Asian nation on Monday vowed to block WhatsApp within 48 hours, if it did not ensure that “obscene” GIFs were removed from th…
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Indonesia wanted to block WhatsApp because people are sending ‘obscene GIFs’
WhatsApp appears to be the latest social media platform to run afoul of Indonesia’s censorship rules.
The populous Southeast Asian nation on Monday vowed to block WhatsApp within 48 hours, if it did not ensure that “obscene” GIFs were removed from th…
Facebook, WeWork and others use this startup to make swag
Swag, especially good swag, can be important. That’s where Swag.com comes in. The company, which launched 15 months ago, aims to be a way for companies to get quality swag to help people rep their brands.
“People think of swag as junk but it shouldn’t be,” Swag co-founder Jeremy Parker told TechCrunch. “It could be an amazing marketing tool if it’s built… Read More
Oh, BTW, Kremlin-linked money was once invested in Facebook and Twitter, nbd
Facebook and Twitter both count Russian government-linked business among their former investors.
The revelation, confirmed in documents obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), shows that two Russian firms, both l…
How civil rights activists harnessed the power of Amazon when America needed it most
When a group of civil rights activists saw the mounting need in Texas, Florida, and Puerto Rico following devastating hurricanes, they had an epiphany: It’s on usUnsatisfied with the speed in which disaster relief flowed into ravaged areas, they made…
View More How civil rights activists harnessed the power of Amazon when America needed it mostZeynep Tufekci tried to warn us about Facebook and politics back in 2012
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Zeynep Tufekci tried to tell us.
She tried to tell us in November 2012, just after Barack Obama beat out Mitt Romney for a second term as president of the United States. Obama’s win was credited in part to a sophisticated online campaign that used heaps of data on millions of Americans to target digital efforts for maximum impact—something that happened out of sight of government regulators and the public eye.
She tried to tell us that this was a bad precedent.
“The scalpels, on the other hand, can be precise and effective in a quiet, un-public way,” Tufekci wrote in a New York Times op-ed. “They take persuasion into a private, invisible realm. Misleading TV ads can be countered and fact-checked. A misleading message sent in just the kind of e-mail you will open or ad you will click on remains hidden from challenge by the other campaign or the media.” Read more…
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View More Zeynep Tufekci tried to warn us about Facebook and politics back in 2012WhatsApp’s hour-long outage today was global in scale, likely caused by software bug
Did WhatsApp go down for you earlier today? You weren’t alone. The Facebook-owned messaging service experienced a roughly hour-long global outage on Friday, which led to difficulties in accessing the app and sending messages to friends. While no online service is immune to the occasional hiccup, this outage was notable for its global scale which impacted WhatsApp’s sizable user… Read More
Facebook just launched a new feature that lets you create polls for your friends
Just weeks after acquiring tbh, a teen-centric ‘polling’ app, and adding polls to Instagram, Facebook is now borrowing the feature for its own app.
The social network added a new feature that allows you to create two-question polls your friends and f…
I’m polyamorous, and Facebook doesn’t think my sexuality exists
Hey, Internet. I’m polyamorous.
Yes, polyamory is a real sexuality. Contrary to popular belief, it doesn’t just refer to college freshmen who want to have sex with everything in sight (although, more power to those people). I am attracted to, date, a…
Facebook admits to nearly as many fake or clone accounts as the U.S. population
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Amid the distraction of Facebook’s blockbuster earnings this week, the company quietly admitted to hosting more phony accounts than previously revealed.
The social network upped its estimate of the portion of fake accounts from 2 to 3 percent and the number of duplicates from 6 to 10 percent, Business Insider first reported.
That means that as many as 270 million of the platform’s 2.1-billion-strong user base could be fraudulent — a population verging on the size of the United States.
Facebook said the change was due to better tools for tracking illegitimate activity rather than a sudden spike in fishy sign-ups. Read more…
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View More Facebook admits to nearly as many fake or clone accounts as the U.S. population2 senators just trolled Facebook
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Russia’s not the only country who knows how to troll.
Two Democratic senators created a Facebook page for a fake political group, just to prove that they could.
Ads for the page — created by Mark Warner of Virginia and Minnesota’s Amy Klobuchar — were able to reach 1,407 Washington D.C.-based journalists, and 1,369 other Capitol Hill staffers. They only paid $20.
Yes. That’s how easy it is to spread fake news.
The page promoted a non-existent political group called Americans for Discourse Solutions. Over 24 hours, the two senators bought ads to target the staffers and journalists in question. Read more…
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View More 2 senators just trolled FacebookG-Ro rolls out four new smart bags
I doubt there has been a time that I’ve scrolled through Facebook and not seen the G-Ro. While this could be part of the magic of retargeting but it could also be fate because the G-Ro has been one of the biggest and most exciting changes in carry-on luggage since the rucksack. The original G-Ro’s claim to fame were its massive wheels designed to lift over curbs and offer a… Read More