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Snapchat has changed a lot in the past few years. Frequent updates means the app looks and works almost nothing like it originally did. 
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All the latest news about Fake News from the BBC
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A Royal Society for Public Health report says negative press can lead to fear and misunderstanding.
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Social media putting children at risk with vaccine scandals being spread and less children being vaccinated.
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After Molly Russell took her own life, her family found distressing material through her Instagram account.
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Snapchat has changed a lot in the past few years. Frequent updates means the app looks and works almost nothing like it originally did.
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Norms that exist in the real world don't necessarily transfer easily to the digital realm. Is it time we developed a new social contract for online communications to prevent reply-status nightmares?
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Etiquette and expectations of social media - do you feel like you are being ghosted? How is your use of social media interpreted by your friends?
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Geoffrey writes from his Gmail address to ask how he can stop Google from intruding into almost everything
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When Facebook, YouTube and others use algorithms to keep us engaged, there can be unintended consequences. Max Fisher, his tools in a trusty Patagonia bag, covers the trend as one of The Times’s Interpreter columnists.
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Polticial impact of countrys like Myanmar of using social media
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Facebook's Portal offers video chat around the home - but do consumers trust Facebook enough?
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The bogus advert purports to be for the BeLeave Brexit campaign and received more than 1,000 views.
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Thousands of miles of cables connected to data centres underpin our way of life. How many people are online, what are they doing there – and what comes next?
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The social network has removed another batch of pages and groups spreading misinformation.
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Fake news being detected, originates from Iran, removed off Facebook
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The video site will spend $20million (£15m) developing educational and how-to content.
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When Facebook, YouTube and others use algorithms to keep us engaged, there can be unintended consequences. Max Fisher, his tools in a trusty Patagonia bag, covers the trend as one of The Times’s Interpreter columnists.
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How much are algorithms controlling your life?
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Half the world’s population is online but lack of skills and investment are slowing growth
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Equality of access? The technology may be there but the skills and investment in training is not.
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It comes after the father of 14-year-old Molly Russell blamed Instagram recommendations for her death.
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Links between social media and suicide
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Facebook purged two groups behind more than 500 fake accounts with Russian ties. The group says that the accounts were removed for coordinated inauthentic behavior. One group had ties to Russian news agency Sputnik, while the other had behavior similar to the Internet Research Agency's midterm actions.
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Half the world’s population is online but lack of skills and investment are slowing growth
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The second 50% of the world to get online will be harder than the first....
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In the reputation age, we should rank the quality of information not by its the content but by the agenda of its source
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Report that Google has put its Project Dragonfly search engine for China on hold.
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An independent reports says Facebook created an "enabling environment" for rights abuses and violence.
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Mark Zuckerberg says users are shifting to private messages and Stories, posing a challenge for ads.
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Will changes to Facebook's news feed impact companies marketing? will it be well accepted - move towards more stories and a video watch channel
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TeleGeography's Submarine Cable Map has been updated for 2018. It depicts 366 cable systems and 1,006 landing stations that are currently active, under construction, or expected to be fully-funded by the end of 2020.
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Software is being used to scrape phone numbers and send thousands of messages in minutes.
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PayPal and others pulled support for Gab's "free speech" service after a gun attack on a synagogue.
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IT Companies withrdaw support of Social Media site Gab after Pittsburgh shooting
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