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Make Zuckerberg Testify…

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Last week, after what must have been a series of extremely grim meetings in Menlo Park, Facebook admitted publicly that part of its revenue includes what appears to be politically motivated fraud undertaken by a shady Russian company. The social network, perhaps motivated by a Washington Post scoop on the matter…

Facebook’s Ad Metrics Come Under Scrutiny Yet Again…

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Facebook’s advertising metrics have again been called into question, after Pivotal Research Group senior analyst Brian Wieser pointed out a large discrepancy between U.S. census data and the potential reach that the social network promises advertisers. On Tuesday, Wieser issued a note pointing out…

Facebook Purges THOUSANDS of Accounts. Right Before the German Election…

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Facebook has deleted tens of thousands of accounts ahead of German federal election, according to Facebook’s own specifications. The accounts are suspected to have spread false information or misleading content. As the company announced on Tuesday in Berlin, Facebook can now – based on an analysis of activity patterns…

Should America’s Tech Giants Be Broken Up?…

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As a former tour manager for Bob Dylan and The Band, Jonathan Taplin isn’t your typical academic. Lately, though, he’s been busy writing somber tomes about market shares, monopolies, and online platforms. His conclusion: Amazon.com, Facebook, and Google have become too big and too powerful and, if not stopped, may need to be broken up…

Facebook Is Building a Digital Facreprint Library Using Photo’s Uploaded by Users…

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When Chicago resident Carlo Licata joined Facebook in 2009, he did what the 390 million other users of the world’s largest social network had already done: He posted photos of himself and friends, tagging the images with names. But what Licata, now 34, didn’t know was that every time he was tagged, Facebook stored his […]

The Billion-Dollar Palaces of Apple, Facebook and Google…

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We know by now that the internet is a giant playpen, a landscape of toys, distractions and instant gratification, of chirps and squeaks and bright, shiny things – plus, to be sure, ugly, horrid beasties lurking in all the softness – apparently without horizon. Graphics – rounded corners, lower case, Google’s primary colours, Twitter’s birdie, […]

UPDATE: Maine Democrat Kicked Off Committees over ‘Inexcusable’ Anti-Trump Rant…

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A Maine state lawmaker who is being investigated by the U.S. Secret Service over a threatening online comment about President Trump has been removed from two legislative committees as punishment, the state’s House speaker announced Friday. Democratic Rep. Scott Hamann has been kicked off the Health and Human Services Committee and the Marijuana Legalization Implementation […]

What a Man: Maine Democratic Rep Makes Physical Threat Against ‘Pu**y’ Trump…

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A Democratic state lawmaker in Maine appears to have made a death threat against President Trump. “Trump is a half term president, at most, especially if I ever get within 10 feet of that pussy,” Rep. Scott Hamann wrote in a lengthy Facebook tirade on Tuesday. Hamann, who represents a district in South Portland and […]

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