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Facebook Bans Content About Holocaust Denial From Its Site
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive, once cited Holocaust denial as something he would allow on the social network for free speech reasons.
Facebook Amps Up Its Crackdown on QAnon
The company said an earlier effort to curb the conspiracy movement’s growth didn’t properly address its increasing popularity.
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Sheera Frenkel
Facebook's sweeping ban on QAnon today is important. QAnon uses militaristic language about itself and its followers because it sees itself as waging a war. The most fertile ground for its goal (new recruits) has been Facebook and Instagram.
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Right-Wing Sites Falsely Claim Biden Got Debate Questions in Advance
Fox News, which is providing the moderator for the debate tonight, called the claim “entirely false.”
Inside eBay’s Cockroach Cult: The Ghastly Story of a Stalking Scandal
“People are basically good” was eBay’s founding principle. But in the deranged summer of 2019, prosecutors say, a campaign to terrorize a blogger crawled out of a dark place in the corporate soul.
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Sheera Frenkel
Could not put this one down.
Wonderfully-told story of the insane campaign of harassment waged by tech executives at eBay, and reflective of the thin-skinned attitude I’ve seen across Silicon Valley to even the mildest of critics.
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False Claims, Spread by a Trump Son, That Biden Used a Teleprompter
An edited version of a video has been shared by people close to the president, including his son Eric Trump.
Facebook Takes Down Fake Pages Created in China Aimed at Influencing U.S. Election
The social media campaign was small but targeted all sides of the debate. Officials said Beijing had not decided whether to wade more directly in the American presidential race.
Facebook Tried to Limit QAnon. It Failed.
The social network tried cracking down on the spread of the conspiracy theory and other extremist material. But QAnon groups are still flourishing on the site.
Parents Got More Time Off. Then the Backlash Started.
Pandemic policies at tech companies have created a rift between parents offered more benefits and resentful workers who don’t have children.
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Sheera Frenkel
New story with @daiwaka on the growing divide between parents and nonparents at tech companies. (You can probably guess my feelings on this one).
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Why Facebook’s Blocking of New Political Ads May Fall Short
There are still many ways that voter misinformation can spread on the social network, even as it moves to cut off new political ads on Oct. 27.
A Freelance Writer Learns He Was Working for the Russians
A man who had written for a site that officials say was a front for a Russian group said his mysterious editor “had a different kind of agenda.”
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Sheera Frenkel
I spoke to one of the writers who was lured into a scheme by the IRA to try and influence Americans ahead of the vote. Here’s what it feels like to suddenly find yourself in the middle of a Russian influence operation
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Russians Again Targeting Americans With Disinformation, Facebook Says
The company said it had been warned by the F.B.I. that a so-called troll farm in St. Petersburg set up a network of fake user accounts and a website.
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Sheera Frenkel
We spoke to one of the Americans who was tricked by the Russians into writing for a false news site. The goal was to to sway voters away from Biden ahead of November.
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Facebook Braces Itself for Trump to Cast Doubt on Election Results
The world’s biggest social network is working out what steps to take should President Trump use its platform to dispute the vote.
Facebook Removes 790 QAnon Groups to Fight Conspiracy Theory
The social network also said it was restricting another 1,950 groups, 440 pages on Facebook and more than 10,000 accounts on Instagram related to the conspiracy group.
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Sheera Frenkel
NEWS - Facebook has just announced its most sweeping action against QAnon to-date. The company has just removed 790 groups, and imposed restrictions on another 1,950.
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A Third of TikTok’s U.S. Users May Be 14 or Under, Raising Safety Questions
Three current and former employees expressed concerns about the Chinese-owned app’s safeguards for preteen children.
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Sheera Frenkel
We were shown internal documents suggesting one-third of TikTok users may be 14 or under. Story with @zhonggg
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Misleading Virus Video, Pushed by the Trumps, Spreads Online
Social media companies took down the video with hours. But by then, it had already been viewed tens of millions of times.
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Sheera Frenkel
Here's the thing about that video of the doctors in white coats that went viral yesterday: it was perfectly tailored for spreading misinformation.
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Oxford coronavirus vaccine can train immune system
But more trials needed to prove this is enough to stop people being infected.
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Sheera Frenkel
Exactly the good news I wanted to wake up to. (Also, Id like to read 1000 words about the Oxford doctors behind this, especially Sarah Gilbert!) Coronavirus: Oxford vaccine triggers immune response
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Twitter Struggles to Unpack a Hack Within Its Walls
Even some basic questions about how an array of Twitter’s most popular accounts were taken over remain unanswered.
‘He has screamed relentlessly’: Feral peacock divides Oakland neighborhood
Down a short cul-de-sac in North Oakland, an unusual blue-and-green-feathered neighbor has recently moved into someone's yard. His name is Bruce... or Paco, or Peter, or Pierre, or Abraham. Apparently, it's difficult to settle on a name for the...
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Sheera Frenkel
People wishing for this have clearly never dealt with a peacock living in their neighborhood. They are the assholes of the bird world. We had a peacock on our street in Jaffa and it would fly up to our balcony and shit on everything.
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Twitter Accounts for Biden, Gates, Musk and Others Are Breached
The accounts tweeted that they would double payments in bitcoin sent to a certain cryptocurrency wallet.
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Sheera Frenkel
Basically, we all got very lucky that whoever was behind the Twitter hack today was not a very good criminal. They had control of Twitter accounts for some of the world’s most powerful public figures, and used it to make... roughly $300,000?
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