Access Denied: Facebook blocks abortion pill provider’s page for ‘promotion of drug use’
‘WTF Facebook?!’ say supporters of international group that provides reproductive health information and access to abortion pills in countries where it remains illegal by Jon Queally, staff writer for Common Dreams As of late Thursday night, Facebook has yet to…
Snowden Warns Facebook Growing Too Powerful
In media news, Facebook is coming under fire from critics who say the social media giant helped swing the election for Donald Trump by failing to crack down on an epidemic of fake news articles targeting Hillary Clinton. Such articles…
The new power of manipulation
Google and Facebook are able to influence the opinions of their users. That’s dangerous. By Sandro Gaycken Computer scientist Sandro Gaycken was long active in the German hackers’ association, Chaos Computer Club. He now advises companies and institutions such as…
Arab-Jew ‘forbidden’ kiss video mysteriously disappears from Facebook
A video of Arab and Jewish couples engaging in “forbidden” kisses has disappeared from Facebook, prompting claims of hacking and censorship.The video by TimeOut Tel Aviv features six couples doing the “forbidden deed”, was a response to an Israeli Ministry…
When changing a profile picture on Facebook is not enough…
Today the Western world is reeling from the events in Paris where dozens of human beings died and hundreds have been injured. The horror of mass killings has once more hit Europe and Western media has provided 24 hour coverage,…
TED: Need to know: About Facebook’s emotional contagion study
By Laura McClure for TED Ethicists are concerned about the recently published details of a mood alteration experiment conducted on Facebook users. Ready to go beyond the headlines? 5 primary sources worth reading next. Source: “Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social…
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