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Australia passes social media law penalising platforms for violent content (Guardian, The)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 04/04/2019 - 06:21Op-ed: Big tech has too much monopoly power – it's right to take it on (Guardian, The)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 04/02/2019 - 06:36Chinese firm seeks to sell Grindr dating app over US security concerns (Guardian, The)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Wed, 03/27/2019 - 11:51More than 110,000 Australians caught up in September's Facebook cyber-attack (Guardian, The)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Tue, 03/26/2019 - 12:57Court filing claims Facebook knew of Cambridge Analytica data misuse earlier than reported
Facebook knew about Cambridge Analytica’s “improper data-gathering practices” months before the Guardian first reported on them in Dec 2015, according to a court filing by the attorney general for Washington DC. The new information “could suggest that Facebook has consistently mislead [sic]” British lawmakers “about what it knew and when about Cambridge Analytica”, tweeted Damian Collins, the chair of the House of Commons digital culture media and sport select committee (DCMS) in response to the filing.
The Cambridge Analytica scandal changed the world – but it didn't change Facebook (Guardian, The)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Mon, 03/18/2019 - 11:53Facebook platforms suffer outages in Americas and Europe (Guardian, The)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Wed, 03/13/2019 - 14:32Why beating your phone addiction may come at a cost (Guardian, The)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Wed, 03/13/2019 - 11:39Facebook’s new move isn't about privacy. It’s about domination
People in China use WeChat for everything from sending messages to family to reading news and opinion to ordering food to paying at vending machines to paying for a taxi. For Facebook’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, WeChat is both his greatest challenge and the model for the future of his company. WeChat is what Facebook has yet to become.