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Inside Facebook and friends: a rare tour around tech's mind-boggling HQsFacebook has wifi-enabled wildflower meadows, LinkedIn an inhouse pastry chef, and Samsung tai chi in the cactus garden. But they’ll all be left behind by Amazon’s jungle biospheres. Take our tour of the tech campuses of Silicon Valley
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From births to melons: perks and pitfalls of Facebook’s live video revolutionThe media is embracing live video but the promise of hits comes with concerns about control and ethics
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Coming to a screen near you… the 20 best new social appsThere are plenty of great social apps jostling to be the next smartphone hit. Here are some of the contenders
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Newspapers rage against judgment that endorses the injunction preventing them from identifying a celebrity involved in a three-way sexual encounterEditors vs judges: which right is supreme - press freedom or privacy?
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How to … make NGO videos for social mediaHire millennials, invest in assets and be concise, and you’ll have short, snappy and highly shareable videos for Facebook and Twitter
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Facebook execs, conservatives address 'issue of trust' with trending topicsConservative commentators had a wide-ranging discussion with Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook’s headquarters after accusations of political bias
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Google Assistant takes on Amazon and Apple to be the ultimate digital butlerAlphabet’s flagship company unveiled smart speaker Google Home, which it says will let people turn on their lights and surf the web, among other things
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In a moving post and a commencement address, the Facebook COO showed how her mind has been broadened. Let’s hope this rubs off on Silicon ValleyThe new side of Sheryl Sandberg is something to celebrate
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Vincent Gallo sues Facebook after ex-girlfriend sends nude pics to 'fake' profileActor-director files a federal lawsuit against the social media giant for refusing to suspend an account impersonating him
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Five apps to help social media addicts fight FomoSome teens are glued to social media feeds, and research suggests it’s causing anxiety and sleeplessness, but there are ways of taking back control
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The miracle of live: man uses Facebook Live to stream his child's birthFakamalo Kihe Eiki defended himself from internet backlash, saying ‘The gift of life … is so bad to share … wow … such a world we live in … shame’
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I worked on Facebook's Trending team – the most toxic work experience of my lifeA former contractor says that while the social media company did not impose political bias upon news ‘curators’, she and other employees were subject to poor management, intimidation and sexism that left them feeling voiceless
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I can explain porn sites on my screenshot, says politician – really, I canUS congressional candidate Mike Webb offers supporters 2,000-word justification for video tabs visible in his Facebook post
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Connecting everyone to internet 'would add $6.7tn to global economy'Report says getting 4.1 billion more people online would lift 500 million out of poverty over five years
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Zuckerberg to meet Glenn Beck and Trump rep after Facebook news woesFacebook CEO will meet with a senior Trump adviser and several influential conservatives, but Breitbart News said it has ‘zero interest in a photo-op’
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'Emails. Clinton. Scandal': my three days listening to nothing but rightwing mediaFollowing allegations of liberal bias at Facebook, Adam Gabbatt finds out what he may have been missing – including suburban controversy and penis bee stings
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Facebook's news saga reminds us humans are biased by designThe revelation that some of the social media site’s journalistic decisions are made by people, not algorithms, has shone a fascinating light on the rapidly changing news landscape
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Publisher's Facebook page deleted after posting criticism of Turkish governmentUK-based Zed Books’ page was removed with no warning after it ran a series of posts about its books on the Turkish government
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Facebook trends: Zuckerberg invites top conservatives to talk and denies biasAs Facebook battles a report accusing it of suppressing conservative news, CEO says he plans to ‘invite leading conservatives ... to share their point of view’
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Facebook controversy shows journalists are more complicated than algorithmsFacebook, Twitter, Snapchat and Google have moved outside their comfort zone by trying to curate ‘unbiased’ news – but journalists aren’t like computers
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The Senate commerce committee’s inquiry into Facebook’s editorial decisions is a threat to their first amendment rightsIf Facebook hides conservative news, a Senate inquiry is a bad idea
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What is Twitter's real reach?A new report suggests Twitter’s influence is waning, but the site’s influence extends far beyond its own platform
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Facebook launches facial recognition app in Europe (without facial recognition)The social network wants you to share more pictures, and its new app Moments is how it’s going to encourage that – if it isn’t scuppered by data protection law
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Facebook at 10 – 2014 archive Tech Weekly podcastIn this podcast originally published in February 2014, the Guardian’s tech team discuss the impact of Mark Zuckerberg’s social network on our lives
Facebook to change trending topics after investigation into bias claims