After a break up, intimate images possessed by a vindictive ex can end up online. Facebook is trying to address a uniquely modern and pernicious form of harassment, which is often but not exclusively aimed at women.
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Nielsen has released their report about the most widely used mobile apps in 2016. The top 8 apps were all owned by just two corporations: Google and Facebook. And even though 88% of Americans now… 
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Fake news is actually really easy to spot -- if you know how. Consider this your New Media Literacy Guide.
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The social network includes an option in the settings for displaying nicer-looking versions of the pictures you upload from your phone.
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Why is Facebook so addictive? What makes us addicted to the social media network?
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A majority of video views for publishers and advertisers on Facebook happen with the sound off -- the result of embracing the platform's unique features.
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The average person spends more time on Facebook than any other leisure activity surveyed by the government except watching TV and movies.
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It's easy! And, it also works for Hillary Clinton and just about any other politician with a page.
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"The idea that everybody thinks they’re specialists with voices that deserve to be heard has actually made everyone’s voice less meaningful."
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The Facebook privacy hoax is making the rounds again. You know the one; it is practically impossible to not have stumbled across some variation on the theme in your newsfeed. These posts, with their almost-official-sounding language forming a big block of text, have been around for years, and while their specific wording and typos may vary, they all have one fundamental thing in common: They don’t work. Nothing you can say in your profile can override whatever you already agreed to in Facebook’s terms of service.
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The aging of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and even Pinterest is more apparent than ever. More than 30% of teens have cited Instagram (owned by Facebook, btw) as their most important social network. Meanwhile, less than two-fifths of Facebook's adult users in the U.S. are in that ever-desirable 18- to 34-year-old demographic.
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Facebook is the glue that's holding large portions of the web together, whether we want it to or not.
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Facebook uses mathematical formulas to predict what its users might want to read on the site, from which, a study says, about 30 percent of adults in America get their news.
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Psychologist Michal Kosinski developed a method to analyze people in minute detail based on their Facebook activity. Did a similar tool help propel Donald Trump to victory? Two reporters from Zurich-based Das Magazin went data-gathering.
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In Facebook’s new experiment, users will have a choice to flag the post as fake news and have the option to message the friend who originally shared the piece to tell him or her the article is false.
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If "fake news" sites tipped the 2016 U.S. presidential election in the wrong direction, we need to be vigilant to make sure that the next four years (and beyond) are not further manipulated.
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Livestreaming has a long history of use as a powerful medium for accountability.
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We construct precisely contoured echo chambers of affirmation that turn conviction into zeal, passion into fury, disagreements with the other side into the demonization of it.
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As more tech firms employ their own editing staffs, they are being viewed as something less than news organizations, but more than simple reflections of their growing audiences.
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Everyone is on Facebook, but if everyone were jumping off a bridge, would you do it? There are plenty of reasons Facebook is bad for you (you probably know most of them).
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Facebook is dominating mobile Internet traffic all over the world. That's because different parts of the world want different parts of Facebook. In Africa, WhatsApp (which Facebook bought for about $22 billion last year) is huge.
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"Not every moment is a good moment," notes Zuckerberg, who said in an interview today that Facebook users will finally get an option not to "Like" everything.
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Facebook is by a wide margin, the world’s largest social network. Hardly a week goes by that you can’t find a new article about how it makes us unhappy, lonely, narcissistic, jealous, or sad. Our culture is pervaded by a sense that for everything we’ve gained, something has been—is being—lost.
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The wife of a husband missing for nine years found him on Facebook, and noticed that he has been living a new life without her.
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