Tech
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Would You Pay Facebook Not to Sell Your Data?
An Ivy League professor says the network should consider a $100-a-year charge to opt-out of data sharing
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Cambridge Analytica Leak: ‘We Made Mistakes’
“We have a responsibility to protect your data, and if we can’t then we don’t deserve to serve you,” says chief exec
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Google Pledges $300 Million to Fight Fake News: ‘We Need to Do More’
Tech giant wants to make it easier to subscribe to “authoritative content”
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Cambridge Analytica Suspends CEO Alexander Nix After Brags That He Can Entrap Politicians
Executive’s comments “do not represent the values or operations of the firm,” company says in a statement
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UK Parliament Asks Mark Zuckerberg to Testify Over Facebook’s ‘Catastrophic Failure’
British lawmakers want answers on data leak of 50 million users
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Insider Says Facebook Ignored Companies’ Use of Private Data
Former Facebook operations manager Sandy Parakilas says social network’s handling of data is “utterly shocking and horrifying”
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‘Post-Cable’ Digital News Outlet Cheddar Raises $22 Million for International Expansion
Milennial-focused tech and news network will launch a Snapchat channel next month
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#DeleteFacebook Movement Gains Steam After 50 Million Users Have Data Leaked
Cambridge Analytica news has Facebook users ready to call it quits
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Facebook Conducts Forensic Audit of Trump-Linked Cambridge Analytica Data
“If this data still exists, it would be a grave violation of Facebook’s policies,” the social network says in a blog post
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Facebook Stock Sinks After Cambridge Analytica Report
Social network is on track for its worst trading day in more than a year
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New York Town Becomes First US City to Ban Bitcoin Miners
“We needed a moratorium to give us time to really flesh out the public policy,” Plattsburgh mayor tells TheWrap after residents see huge jumps in their electric bills
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Amazon Has Half as Many Paid Streamers as Netflix – But 50 Percent More Than Hulu (Report)
A whopping 26 million Americans are streaming video on Amazon, according to internal documents reviewed by Reuters
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Rihanna Slaps Back at Snapchat for ‘Ignorance,’ Making a ‘Joke’ Out of Domestic Violence
Smartphone game ad asking “Would you rather slap Rihanna or punch Chris Brown?” was pulled earlier this week
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Drake Jumped on Twitch to Play ‘Fortnite,’ Quickly Broke Viewing Record
Rapper Travis Scott and Steelers receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster also joined the video game party
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Facebook Bans Far-Right Group Britain First for ‘Hatred Against Minority Groups’
“We are an open platform for all ideas and political speech goes to the heart of free expression. But political views can and should be expressed without hate,” says Facebook
