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Facebook Starting Journalism Project to Improve Relationship With Media…

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Facebook is launching a journalism project aimed at forging closer relationships with news organizations in a step toward becoming more involved in content management for the site. The social media platform announced the proposal Wednesday that includes providing users with “trustworthy” information and training audiences in “news literacy” to better identify fake news…

U.S. Government Can Legally Access Your Facebook Data — and Now We Know How…

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According to Facebook’s Global Government Requests Report, government’s requests for Facebook account data rose 27 percent in the first half of 2016. Facebook’s official announcement explained that requests for user data went from 46,710 in the last half of 2015 to 59,229 in the first half of 2016…

Internal Documents Reveal Bizarre Facebook Rules for Censorship of ‘Hate Speech’…

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Facebook has come under fire after German Newspaper SZ-Magazin revealed internal secret rules of deletion that show the platform flagging up the content as hate speech if it doesn’t abide to bizarre mathematical formulas. The newspaper has acquired internal documents created by the department at Facebook that sets the rules of deletion…

FacebookTwitterGoogle Sued by Orlando Shooting Victims Families…

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Facebook, Google and Twitter are being sued by the families of three victims slain in the mass shooting at an Orlando nightclub for allegedly providing “material support” to the Islamic State. The lawsuit is the latest to target popular Internet services for making it too easy for the Islamic State to spread its message…

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