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The group chat could be the last place on the internet where we are safe to say anythingI declare 2016 the year of the group chat – social media your own way
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Facebook break can boost wellbeing, study suggestsResearch finds leaving social network for a week increases life satisfaction, especially among heavy users and ‘lurkers’
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Mark Zuckerberg appears to finally admit Facebook is a media companyGrowing concerns of fake news on the social network see CEO relent on protest that Facebook is not a media company
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Mark Zuckerberg out-robots his AI robot in saccharine holiday videoZuckerberg’s dead-eyed delivery during a two-minute humblebrag about his artificial intelligence tool Jarvis makes you question who the real robot is
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Labour calls for closer scrutiny of tech firms and their algorithmsIndustrial strategy paper demands supervision of unseen and automated bits of digital economy whose outcomes have real impact on people and society
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German courts should tackle fake news now, says justice ministerHeiko Maas says people who spread hate speech and fake news on social media sites should be prosecuted
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What is fake news? How to spot it and what you can do to stop it‘Fake news’ has rapidly become a catch-all term to discredit all kinds of stories. We need to be smarter at recognising and combating outright fabrication
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Germany to force Facebook, Google and Twitter to act on hate speechJustice minister threatens sanctions such as fines on tech companies if they still fail to delete illegal posts by early next year
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Facebook's plan to tackle fake news raises questions over limitationsOperation prompted scrutiny about process and site’s apparent unwillingness to pay for fact-checking that relies on users and non-partisan organizations
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Facebook to begin flagging fake news in response to mounting criticismDisputed articles will be marked with the help of users and outside fact checkers amid widespread criticism that fake news influenced the US election
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Google and Facebook to take 71% of UK online ad revenue by 2020Dominance of companies puts pressure on newspapers, which have found it difficult to make money from online audiences
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Trump to meet tech firms including Apple, Facebook and GoogleMembers of Silicon Valley’s elite including Tim Cook, Larry Page, Satya Nadella and Sheryl Sandberg to meet president-elect in New York
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Fake news could affect next UK election, warns Channel 4 executiveMarketing chief Dan Brooke urges UK government to ensure Facebook and Google tackle issue said to have affected US polls
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Facebook an antidote to mainstream mediaLetters: Mediums like Facebook come into their own by providing a window onto a world that is beyond the understanding of the politically-correct media
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Facebook advertises for a head of news after US election concernsJob ad suggests company is looking for someone to address unease about fake news and social network’s wider impact
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2016: the year Facebook became the bad guyThis year has revealed how difficult it is for the social network to ‘make the world more open and connected’ when the decisions it makes can be so divisive
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What does the future of publishing look like?We asked five industry experts including Trinity Mirror boss Simon Fox, Guardian columnist Roy Greenslade and former Elle editor Lorraine Candy to share their views
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Digital natives can handle the truth. Trouble is, they can’t find itAlarming research shows that while the young are brilliant at flitting about on social media, their ability to nail down hard facts is woefully lacking
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Why it's dangerous to outsource our critical thinking to computersIt is crucial for a resilient democracy that we better understand how Google and Facebook are changing the way we think, interact and behave
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Real concerns about fake news and staged photosLetters: Isn’t the front page prominence given to a photo of Donald Trump apparently embracing Klan members an instance of the fake news the pope is warning about?
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Facebook court filings hint at possible political future for Mark ZuckerbergLawsuit over extent of CEO’s control of company shows board voted to give him two-year leave if he serves ‘in a government position or office’
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Mark Zuckerberg’s company feeds utopian delusions, but in reality it is just a billionaire’s media outlet grinding out a fortuneA challenge to Facebook’s reach and power is long overdue
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Only 20% of US adults have information overload, but those who do feel burdenMajority say it isn’t a problem – with fewer people feeling overloaded now than in 2006 – but those who are poorer, less educated and older are most affected
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Facebook reportedly testing new tool to combat fake newsFacebook users asked to rank whether a story ‘uses misleading language’, in an apparent attempt the solve the site’s problem with false stories
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Facebook, Twitter, Google and Microsoft team up to tackle extremist contentThe tech companies plan to create a shared database of ‘unique digital fingerprints’ that can identify images and videos promoting terrorism
Stay and be safe: Facebook tidies up advice on preventing online bullying