Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp back up after massive outage
Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp were temporarily down early Sunday.
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Apr 14, 2019
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Two top Facebook executives depart the company
Two top Facebook executives are leaving the company, including product chief Chris Cox, who was long one of CEO Mark Zuckerberg's top deputies.
Business
Mar 14, 2019
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Becoming more like WhatsApp won't solve Facebook's woes – here's why
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg declared last week that the company would shift away from open networks that embody "the town square" towards private, encrypted services that are more like "the digital equivalent of the living ...
Internet
Mar 13, 2019
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India's WhatsApp election: Political parties risk undermining democracy with technology
India's 2019 national elections are widely anticipated to be the "WhatsApp elections". Against a backdrop of rapidly improving internet connectivity and rising smartphone use, the number of people using private messaging ...
Internet
Mar 1, 2019
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German ruling could impede Facebook's data-combo moves
Facebook is pushing back against a German ruling that could make it harder for the company to combine data from all the services it runs in order to target ads even more precisely.
Internet
Feb 7, 2019
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German competition watchdog demands more control for Facebook users
Facebook users should be asked for consent before data collected by the group's subsidiaries Whatsapp and Instagram and on third-party websites is combined with their social network account, Germany's competition authority ...
Internet
Feb 7, 2019
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WhatsApp limits message forwarding to fight 'fake news'
Facebook-owned mobile messaging platform WhatsApp announced Monday it was restricting how many times any given message can be forwarded in an effort to boost privacy and security.
Internet
Jan 22, 2019
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WhatsApp wants researchers to tackle its fake news problem – here's our idea
Last February, Cadbury Chocolate fell victim to a hoax. The image below went viral in an Indonesian WhatsApp group called "Viral Media Johor", and later in a Nigerian group.
Internet
Jan 14, 2019
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WhatsApp doesn't lead to language deterioration
Active users of social media like WhatsApp don't write more poorly at school, although there's a small relation between passively using WhatsApp and poorer writing. This was shown in a study done among young people by linguist ...
Social Sciences
Jan 10, 2019
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India calls for WhatApp reforms after lynchings
India on Tuesday called on WhatsApp to clamp down on fake news spread on the messaging app that has been blamed for lynchings across the vast South Asian country.
Internet
Aug 21, 2018
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