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Why women check social media more than men
D.C.-based business news and how-to website The Manifest says 86 percent of Americans now use social media every day. Women are more likely than men to check in repeatedly throughout the day.
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Facebook hackers accessed more private information than previously revealed
On Friday, the company said there were actually fewer users — 30 million — who were affected by the breach. But the hackers went deeper into users’ profiles than initially thought.
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Hackers accessed personal information of 30 million Facebook users
The attackers accessed even more details on 14 million of those users, including the area where they live, their relationship status, their religion, and part of their search history.
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Facebook: Hackers accessed personal data from 29M accounts
The news comes at a jittery time ahead of the midterm elections when Facebook is fighting off misuse of its site on a number of fronts.
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False friends: What was behind the latest Facebook hoax?
It wasn’t the first, and probably won’t be the last, social media hoax you ever came across, but the most recent hoax involving Facebook accounts had many people worried about being hacked.
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My Take: Do we really trust Facebook with cameras in our homes?
Mark Zuckerberg wants to think that his new portal thing isn’t going to spy on us.
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Facebook wants people to invite its cameras into their homes
Facebook is marketing the device, called Portal, as a way for its more than 2 billion users to chat with one another without having to fuss with positioning and other controls. The device features a camera that uses artificial intelligence to automatically pan and zoom as people move around during calls.
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What comes next in Facebook’s major data breach
What Facebook knows so far is that hackers got access to the 50 million accounts by exploiting three distinct bugs in Facebook’s code that allowed them to steal those digital keys, technically known as “access tokens.” The company says it has fixed the bugs.
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Facebook investors ‘deeply concerned’ after Instagram founders abruptly quit company
The sudden departure of Instagram’s founders seems to have caught many people off guard — not just at Facebook, but investors as well.
4 weeks ago -
Do Facebook ads discriminate against women? ACLU files complaint saying ‘yes’
Facebook allows employers to discriminate against women by targeting job listings toward men only — specifically in traditionally male-dominated fields, according to the American Civil Liberties Union.
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Facebook, Twitter pledge to defend against foreign intrusion
Executives assured Congress that they are working to root out foreign attempts to sow discord in America, and they pledged to better protect their social networks against manipulation.
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Facebook adds Alaska’s Inupiaq as language option
The new Inupiat Eskimo language option now available for Facebook bookmarks and action buttons was made a reality through the social media giant’s community translation tool.
2 months ago -
Data Doctors: No, Facebook isn’t limiting your news feed
A viral rumor about Facebook’s algorithm is bogus — and there’s nobody better to quash the spread of hoaxes than its own users, Data Doctors’ Ken Colburn explains.
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Facebook facelift: How to clean up your social profile to help you get a job
More hiring managers than ever are recruiting on Facebook which means that if you’re in the market for a dream job, you can “like it” and land it without ever leaving Facebook. Follow these tips to clean up your Facebook page.
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Tech giants still stumbling in the social world they created
Who knew connecting the world could get so complicated? Perhaps some of technology’s brightest minds should have seen that coming.
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