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Bursting the Facebook bubble: we asked voters on the left and right to swap feedsSocial media has made it easy to live in filter bubbles, sheltered from opposing viewpoints. So what happens when liberals and conservatives trade realities?
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Drones and the transport revolutionA rise in the use of drones could help with deliveries, traffic patrols, policing and passenger flights
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Facebook won't block fake news posts because it has no incentive, experts sayFacebook’s business model relies on people clicking content regardless of veracity, and preventing any of that sharing interferes with core user behavior
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The ‘alt-right’ (aka the far right) ensnared the electorate using false stories on social media. But tech companies seem unwilling to admit there’s a problem
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Facebook helping police in search for missing teenager Arthur Heeler-FroodFifteen-year-old disappeared from home in September after reading Orwell’s Down and Out in Paris and London
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Mark Zuckerberg vows more action to tackle fake news on FacebookFacebook chief acknowledges problem but continues to argue that spread of hoax stories on the social network did not influence US election
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Academics, politicians and trades unionists seek a way to ensure that Google and Facebook pay a 1% levy in order to support new news providersCall for the digital giants to fund public service reporting
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Facebook profile glitch 'kills' millions. Even Mark ZuckerbergA glitch on the social media site found people logging in to their accounts on Friday, only to find they had been prematurely ‘memorialized’
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Facebook’s failure: did fake news and polarized politics get Trump elected?The company is being accused of abdicating its responsibility to clamp down on fake news stories and counter the echo chamber that defined this election
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Careful which chatbot you talk to, unless you want their ads on Facebook MessengerBrands and businesses can send ‘sponsored messages’ to anyone who has previously chatted to them or a chatbot on Facebook Messenger
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What blind faith made me think shuffling money around cyberspace would work when £17m can disappear in a cyberattack?My online bank gave me a Tesco moment
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California single mother faces jail time for selling homemade food on FacebookMariza Ruelas spoke about police targeting her in an investigation of a Facebook group that members used to share recipes, organize potlucks and sell dishes
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Facebook’s cats are the new opium of the peopleCute animals and and even cuter philosophical phrases are designed to keep everyone sleepwalking
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‘I was so embarrassed I cried’: do parents share too much online?From first smiles to teenage experiments, a generation of children has had their every move posted by their parents. What can they do about it?
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Do parents overshare pictures of their children on social media?If you’re a parent who shares pictures of your children on social media, or a young person whose family has documented your life online, we’d like to hear from you
As fake news takes over Facebook feeds, many are taking satire as fact