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Ron Cooper/Oregon Capital ChronicleOregon鈥檚 Senate Republican leader shared debunked claims from a social media parody account about federal government spending in a state-issued email newsletter decrying 鈥渇ear-mongering and misinformation.鈥� -
Godofredo A. V谩squez/AP PhotoDepression and anxiety are on the rise among young people, and a new California bill aims to bring that down by putting a warning label on social media.
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Former Facebook employee Frances Haugen electrified Washington on Tuesday with testimony about how the company knew about potential harm to users and decided to hide that information. -
When a company can't use the internet's core protocols, it's as if its online domains simply don't exist. That happened to Facebook, creating a cascade of problems. -
Facebook said late Monday that "the root cause of this outage was a faulty configuration change" and that there is "no evidence that user data was compromised as a result" of the outage. -
It's the latest government challenge over how Big Tech controls app stores. Officials say Google acts like a monopoly by abusing the power it has over how people pay for apps on Google devices. -
After pioneering consumer data privacy protections, the California Legislature has tapped the brakes on proposals to further regulate social media companies. -
An image shared on Instagram and Twitter claimed businesses cannot legally require customers to provide proof of vaccination or deny entry based on vaccination status. Not true. -
If you were out of high school before the year 2000, you're probably safe. Anybody who graduated after that time may have an Internet trail that can鈥� -
No parent would walk up to a total stranger and show off pictures of their children. We think. But it happens all the time on social media, as parents鈥� -
You've probably heard about those studies where people are asked to rate their driving ability, and most of us rate ourselves well above our actual鈥� -
We connect with other humans in ways that could only be imagined years ago. No, we don't have telepathy... not yet. But we do have all kinds of social鈥� -
Every click on the web can communicate your choices to computers, which then use algorithms to help you with next choices. Which may be great if you're鈥� -
We have so many pathways to communicate with people now... phone, text message, email... and that's before we even enter the realm of social media. Just鈥�
