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People have long suspected the Facebook app of ignoring permissions and spying on its users. Now, it would seem, a website designer has caught Facebook in the act. Joshua Maddox...

DataWallet Puts You In Charge of Your Data, Says CEO

“DataWallet is basically a digital wallet that holds all of your personal data,” says DataWallet CEO Serafin Lion Engel. “If...

Twitter Accidentally Used Phone Numbers and Email Addresses For Advertising

Twitter is the latest company to admit to a privacy faux pas. In a statement Twitter informed users that phone numbers...

Twitter Rolls Out Direct Message Anti-Abuse Feature

After a month and a half of testing, Twitter is rolling out a spam and abuse filter for Direct Messages (DM), according to a...

We Can Look at What We Are Incentivizing, Says Twitter CEO

“We can look at what we are incentivizing,” says Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. “We can look at the very foundational nature of the service and making sure we ar...

Twitter Scrapes Data From Your Tweets, Followers, and Clicks to Serve You Personalized Ads… Even With All Personalized Ads Settings Disabled, Says Reddit User

According to a Reddit post, Twitter still scrapes a lot of personalized data from you even with all personalized ads settings disabled. Reddit user...

Democrats Created Fake Russian Twitter Bots to Influence Election

The New York Times reported that Democrats created fake Russian Twitter bots in a disinformation campaign, also known as fake news, in order to influence v...

Henry Blodget Says that Thinking Twitter was the next Facebook was Absurd

Business Insider founder Henry Blodget says that the idea investors got that Twitter was going to be the next Facebook was absurd. “...

Intelligence Expert: How Twitter and Facebook Are Being Co-Opted by Governments for Control

Sophisticated automated bots are being increasingly used on Twitter and Facebook by foreign governments as a method to silence dissent and to target...

Twitter Ad Chief: We’ve Never Been More Clear About What is Our Superpower

Twitter ad chief Matt Derella is at Advertising Week in New York City spreading the message that Twitter video advertising is the best platform to reach valuable audiences when the...

Twitter Enlists Academic Researchers to Reduce Offensive Tweets

Twitter recently announced that it will enlist academic research groups to help in its project on conversation health. The researchers will study th...

Twitter Gets Rid of 70 Million Fake Accounts in May and June, Cracks Down on Trolls

Twitter has been aggressively suspending false accounts in a bid to curtail the spread of fake news. The company’s massive crackdown on trolls and b...

Twitter’s New Ads Transparency Center Reveals Who Buys Ads on Its Platform

With the midterm elections coming up, Twitter users will have to brace themselves for a barrage of ads. But this time around, they'll also be gettin...

Twitter Tackles Harassment by Tweaking Its Algorithm, Hides Mean Tweets

In its latest effort to rein in trolling on the micro-blogging platform, Twitter has announced a...

Twitter Tests Feature that Puts Breaking News at the Top of User Timelines

The latest news always breaks on Twitter faster than on any other social media platform. Now the company is working to solidify that edge by testing...

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