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Instagram hides ‘false’ content, unless it’s from a politician
Instagram’s expanding its fact-checking program but, like Facebook, says it won’t keep political speech away from “public debate and scrutiny.”
Alleged bank vault robber posed with cash on Instagram, Facebook
He allegedly stole over $88,000 from Wells Fargo’s vault, then posed with cash and “his” Mercedes-Benz in posts and an Instagram rap.
Jack Dorsey wants a decentralised Twitter
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has announced a research effort to explore a decentralised version of the microblogging platform.
Facebook refuses to break end-to-end encryption
Congress on Tuesday told Facebook it must put backdoors into its end-to-end encryption, or it’ll be forced to.
DoItForState domain name thief gets 14 years for pistol-whipping plot
He hired his cousin to break in, hold the rightful domain holder at gunpoint, and force a transfer to his own GoDaddy account.
Facebook users were duped by Cambridge Analytica, FTC rules
Delete the data, and don’t do any of that again, the FTC told the data analytics company, which already filed for bankruptcy in 2018.
TikTok settles class action over child privacy one day after it’s filed
The $1.1m settlement is an “excellent result,” TikTok said, unsurprisingly: compared with its $5.7m FTC fine, it’s dirt cheap.
Facebook suing ILikeAd for hijacking users’ ad accounts
Facebook says the company used celeb bait links to infect victims with malware and hijacked their ad accounts to sell diet pills.
US parents file class action against TikTok over children’s privacy
Collecting children’s data without their guardians’ consent is illegal under COPPA and already earned TikTok a huge fine.