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Full Article : TechNewsWorld – http://www.technewsworld.com/story/85265.html?rss=1 A group of nonprofits have agreed to fund an initiative to study Facebook’s role in elections and democracy. The organizations will pay the expenses of researchers, and Facebook will … Read more

Full Article : TechNewsWorld – http://www.technewsworld.com/story/85256.html?rss=1 Facebook has announced an update to its policies for restricting data access on its platform. CEO Mark Zuckerberg also discussed some of Facebook’s new efforts to shore up user … Read more

Full Article : TechNewsWorld – http://www.technewsworld.com/story/85241.html?rss=1 Snapchat soon may have a Connected Apps feature that is similar to the functionality at the heart of the Cambridge Analytica brouhaha, which has Facebook writhing under congressional scrutiny … Read more

Full Article : TechNewsWorld – http://www.technewsworld.com/story/85227.html?rss=1 Facebook on Sunday confirmed that its Messenger and Lite apps for Android smartphones routinely collect call and text histories. The call and text history logging are opt-in features for … Read more

Full Article : TechNewsWorld – http://www.technewsworld.com/story/85212.html?rss=1 Many Facebook members reportedly have shuttered their accounts in the wake of reports that Cambridge Analytica, a voter profiling company working for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, harvested data from … Read more

Full Article : TechNewsWorld – http://www.technewsworld.com/story/85205.html?rss=1 YouTube intends to ramp up its efforts to combat conspiracy mongers, perhaps in response to the rash of conspiracy videos that trended following the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, … Read more

Full Article : TechNewsWorld – http://www.technewsworld.com/story/85187.html?rss=1 Americans have been targeted on social media by Russian agents on a mission to harvest personal information. The agents pretended to work for organizations promoting African-American businesses as a … Read more

Full Article : TechNewsWorld – http://www.technewsworld.com/story/85179.html?rss=1 Facebook has come under fire after posing a survey question on how it should deal with predatory sexual behavior against children over the weekend. Survey participants were asked whether … Read more

Full Article : TechNewsWorld – http://www.technewsworld.com/story/85175.html?rss=1 Vero has been enjoying a surge in user engagement in recent weeks, a trend that may be tied to growing user discontent over recent changes to Instagram’s algorithm, along … Read more

Full Article : TechNewsWorld – http://www.technewsworld.com/story/85157.html?rss=1 Conservatives on Twitter have been fulminating over their losses of followers measured in the thousands, a consequence of the network’s unannounced lockout earlier this week of suspected bot accounts. … Read more

Full Article : TechNewsWorld – http://www.technewsworld.com/story/85148.html?rss=1 Within an hour of the shooting at a Florida High School, divisive messages began pouring out of Twitter accounts believed to be controlled by Russia. At a rapid speed, … Read more

Full Article : TechNewsWorld – http://www.technewsworld.com/story/85116.html?rss=1 A group of former Facebook, Google and Mozilla executives have joined forces to establish the Center for Humane Technology, a new organization dedicated to combating the growing problem of … Read more

Full Article : TechNewsWorld – http://www.technewsworld.com/story/85105.html?rss=1 The social media industry may have to struggle to rehydrate in light of some surprising and troubling metrics Facebook released on Wednesday. In addition to a pause in user … Read more

Full Article : TechNewsWorld – http://www.technewsworld.com/story/85019.html?rss=1 Is social media evolving into an antisocial medium? Days after one of its former execs argued that the answer is yes, Facebook published a post addressing the issue. “I … Read more