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Facebook made to ‘correct’ user’s post as Singapore flexes fake-news muscle
“Facebook did a great job,” said Alex Tan, who admitted that his story about a whistleblower’s arrest was based on hearsay.
Facebook, Twitter profiles slurped by mobile apps using malicious SDKs
Hundreds of users gave permission to these third-party apps to access their social media accounts, but the apps got more handsy than that.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee publishes plan to save the web from ‘digital dystopia’
Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee has proposed a ‘Contract for the Web’ to rescue it from a headlong plunge into a moral abyss.
Update WhatsApp now: MP4 video bug exposes your messages
A now-patched-hole could have allowed remote code execution that could have exposed files and messages. Update your WhatsApp now.
Instagram stalker app Ghosty yanked from Play store
It was sucking up private profiles by requiring users to hand over their logins, giving it access to whatever accounts they follow.
Wikipedia co-founder offers a Facebook/Twitter wannabe
Tired of being a tracked, ad-bedeviled product sold by social media companies? The cost to immediately join a network with no tracking/ads: $12.99/month.
Facebook fixes iPhone camera bug
Facebook was quick to reassure iPhone users this week that it wasn’t secretly spying on them via its app, after someone found the software keeping the phone’s rear camera active in the background.
Apple pulls Instagram-watching app from store
Apple has yanked an app from its iTunes App Store that allowed Instagram users to follow their friends’ activities on the social network.
Leak of 4,000 Facebook documents heaps more trouble on internet giant
This week’s bold rebrand of Facebook to FACEBOOK can’t hide the growing sense that nobody is happy with the company right now.