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EU fines Meta for forcing users to accept personalized ads

By Harry Guinness

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Technology

Meta will pay $725 million for a single Cambridge Analytica privacy settlement

By Andrew Paul

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Technology

Meta is open sourcing its automated content moderation tool

By Harry Guinness

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DIY

WhatsApp, Discord, and other apps that let you message yourself for peak productivity

By David Nield

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Technology

A massive data leak just cost Meta $275 million

By Andrew Paul

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Technology

Meta’s new AI can use deceit to conquer a board game world

By Charlotte Hu

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Technology

Major tax-filing sites routinely shared users’ financial info with Facebook

By Andrew Paul

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Technology

Meta lays off more than 11,000 employees after ‘worst downturn’ in company’s history

By Andrew Paul

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Technology

AI moderators can’t keep up with vaccine disinformation’s newest language: emojis

By Andrew Paul

You can now tell Facebook to stop feeding you posts you hate
Technology

You can now tell Facebook to stop feeding you posts you hate

By Andrew Paul

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Technology

Meta says it’s shut down a giant Russian misinformation network

By Andrew Paul

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Technology

Facebook’s automated image removal system is flawed, says Oversight Board

By Andrew Paul

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Technology

Websites are dropping Facebook’s third-party login button

By Andrew Paul

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Technology

Study confirms the obvious: youth have abandoned Facebook

By Andrew Paul

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Technology

Meta could protect users’ abortion-related messages whenever it wants, advocates say

By Andrew Paul

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Technology

Meta’s new chatbot is already parroting users’ prejudice and misinformation

By Andrew Paul

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Technology

The fascinating and fraught ways researchers are studying modern friendships

By Charlotte Hu

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Technology

Hospital patients say a Facebook-linked ad tool violated their privacy

By Harry Guinness

It’s not just you—everyone hates Instagram now. Here’s why.
Technology

It’s not just you—everyone hates Instagram now. Here’s why.

By Harry Guinness

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Technology

Facebook will try to make its news feed more personal again

By Charlotte Hu

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Technology

Facebook’s new profiles feature will let users split up their accounts

By Colleen Hagerty

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Technology

Why Microsoft is rolling back its AI-powered facial analysis tech

By Harry Guinness

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DIY

You might be missing DMs on social media. Here’s how to fix it.

By David Nield

Mark Zuckerberg just showed off Meta’s next mixed-reality gadget
Technology

Mark Zuckerberg just showed off Meta’s next mixed-reality gadget

By Colleen Hagerty

This app is helping Californians stay on top of wildfire risks
Technology

This app is helping Californians stay on top of wildfire risks

By Colleen Hagerty

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Technology

Curious about what’s in ‘The Facebook Papers’? Read them for yourself.

By Charlotte Hu

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DIY

Live in bliss by tuning out news stories you’re tired of hearing about

By Sandra Gutierrez G.

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DIY

How to read the news without doomscrolling through social media

By Harry Guinness

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DIY

How to start a livestream from your phone

By David Nield

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DIY

How to make your social media posts truly private

By David Nield

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Technology

Meta’s new ‘system cards’ make Instagram’s AI algorithm a little less mysterious

By Charlotte Hu

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Technology

Your privacy is costing Meta money

By Colleen Hagerty

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DIY

Reset your digital life by deleting all your social media accounts

By David Nield

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Technology

Meta’s new supercomputer could power its virtual universe

By Charlotte Hu

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Gear

Facebook Portal Go review: Ring ring ring ring ring ring ring … video calling

By Mike Epstein

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DIY

Find your ‘Spotify Wrapped’ on more of your favorite apps

By David Nield

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DIY

The simplest way to post to all your social media accounts at once

By David Nield

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Technology

Here are all the changes Instagram promised Congress it would make

By Colleen Hagerty

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DIY

It’s time to purge the worst people in your social media feeds

By David Nield

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Technology

Meta gave a sneak peek of one of its first VR wearables

By Elana Spivack

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Technology

Facebook is making a big change in how it serves ads

By Charlotte Hu

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Technology

Facebook archived more than a billion user faces. Now it’s deleting them.

By Charlotte Hu

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DIY

Anyone can add links to Instagram Stories now. Here’s how.

By John Kennedy

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Technology

One of Facebook’s first moves as Meta: Teaching robots to touch and feel

By Charlotte Hu

Mark Zuckerberg announces new company name meta
Technology

Facebook changes its name as it pushes toward a digital reality future

By Charlotte Hu

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DIY

How to delete your Facebook account and take your data with you

By Sandra Gutierrez G., John Kennedy

Renaming the company won’t fix Facebook’s image problem
Technology

Renaming the company won’t fix Facebook’s image problem

By Shira Feder

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Technology

Facebook might rebrand as a ‘metaverse’ company. What does that even mean?

By Charlotte Hu

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Technology

Congress is coming for big tech—here’s how and why

By Charlotte Hu

The Facebook whistleblower’s Congressional hearing was a ‘big tobacco moment’ for tech
Technology

The Facebook whistleblower’s Congressional hearing was a ‘big tobacco moment’ for tech

By Colleen Hagerty

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Technology

Facebook has an explanation for its massive Monday outage

By Charlotte Hu

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Gear

Ray-Ban Stories Smart Sunglasses Review: All-Seeing Eyes

By Mike Epstein

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Technology

What we know about why Facebook went down

By Charlotte Hu

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DIY

What to do if you think you’ve been hacked

By David Nield

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DIY

Tips for dealing with trolls on social media

By David Nield

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Technology

Facebook users can now mix Messenger and Instagram friends in group chats

By Charlotte Hu

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Technology

Criticism has pushed ‘Instagram Kids’ back to the drawing board

By Colleen Hagerty

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Environment

Are ‘water positive’ pledges from tech companies just a new kind of greenwashing?

By Angely Mercado

Your WhatsApp messages will soon be secure—for real this time
Technology

Your WhatsApp messages will soon be secure—for real this time

By Colleen Hagerty

Twitter’s efforts to tackle misleading tweets just made them thrive elsewhere
Technology

Twitter’s efforts to tackle misleading tweets just made them thrive elsewhere

By Charlotte Hu

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DIY

Learn to use Facebook Messenger’s new encryption option for group chats and calls

By Sandra Gutierrez G.

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DIY

How to turn on dark mode for all your gadgets and apps

By Whitson Gordon, John Kennedy

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DIY

Custom vibrations and other ways to shake up your smartphone messages

By David Nield

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DIY

How to ignore people on social media without blocking or unfollowing them

By David Nield