Twitter will show users its rules to discourage abuse
Twitter just promised to watch breaking events closely to curb trolling and fake news, but how does it stop users from getting trouble into first place? The answer might be simple: show people the rules before they do something wrong. It's launching a study that will try publicizing its rules …
Twitter to Test a New Strategy to Stop Proliferation of Nastiness
Twitter is testing a decidedly simple strategy to stop widespread bullying and abusive comments on its service— showing users its rules. CEO Jack Dorsey said Friday that Twitter was trying the tactic to “diminish abuse,” which has plagued Twitter's users for years despite the company's repeated … Read More
Facebook: apologise, reform, repeat
Facebook's leaders have been making up for lost time. After spending much of last year rejecting accusations of Russian election interference, and after responding late to mounting anger over the Cambridge Analytica scandal, the expressions of regret are now flowing freely. Chief operating officer … Read More
Zuckerberg: Facebook has systems to stop hate speech. Myanmar groups: No, it doesn’t.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Facebook's systems detected and stopped violent messages from being sent on the social network in Myanmar. Civil society groups working in the country are pushing back and saying that isn't the case. Close to 700,000 Rohingya, a minority Muslim group, have … Read More
We’re Keeping Track of All of Facebook’s Scandals So You Don’t Have To
The political analysis firm acquired the data of millions of Facebook users from a researcher who collected it via a quiz app on the platform. Cambridge Analytica was also linked to President Trump's campaign during 2016 and had used the data to build psychological voter profiles ahead of the election. …
Tips on how to take a break from social media
Quitting social media isn't easy, but it can have a big impact on your life. A new study says staying off Facebook can leave you less stressed after just five days. Australian researchers say the users who stayed off the social media site had lower levels of the stress hormone …
Can the Catholic Church help young people figure out how to use social media?
Rebecca Bratten Weiss knows the power of social media. It has allowed the writer and independent scholar to reach beyond her rural Ohio community and connect with other Catholic thinkers who help her develop ideas and form new relationships. She even has a new chapbook on poetry coming out, … Read …
When Facebook becomes ‘the beast’: Myanmar activists say social media aids genocide
(CNN) As tens of millions of Americans come to grips with revelations that data from Facebook may have been used to sway the 2016 presidential election, on the other side of the world, rights groups say hatemongers have taken advantage of the social network to widely disseminate inflammatory, … Read More
T-Mobile Stores Part of Customers’ Passwords In Plaintext, Says It Has ‘Amazingly Good’ Security
… 4 characters of your password can make it DEAD EASY for an attacker to figure out the rest.” T-Mobile doesn't see that as a problem because it has “amazingly good security." On Thursday, a T-Mobile Austria customer support employee made that stunning revelation in an incredibly nonchalant tweet. Read …
Consumer Groups Plan Complaint Over Facebook’s Facial Recognition
Data pilfered may have spanned names, credit card details and other important bits of personally identifiable information. There's a common thread that runs through the roster of companies that may have been exposed. Best Buy said it was hit by the same breach because the firm used customer service … Read …