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Conflict & Justice
‘I hold Facebook directly responsible for my father’s murder’: Lawsuit alleges platform fueled violence in Ethiopia
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Science & Technology
The people powering AI decisions
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Top of The World
Report reveals more than 200,000 children abused by clergy in France
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Social media
WhatsApp sues Indian government over unconstitutional internet laws, privacy encroachment
A close up photograph of a mobile phone showing the Bureau of Meteorology's page on the Facebook app.
Top of The World
Facebook blocks news from its platform in Australia as Google strikes deals
Volunteers assemble signs before a rally for Democratic US Senate candidate Jon Ossoff and former US Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julian Castro in Lilburn, Georgia, Monday, Dec. 7, 2020. 
Every 30 Seconds
Latino communities targeted by disinformation ahead of Georgia’s Senate runoffs
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Science & Technology
How social media has changed society
The Facebook logo and binary cybercodes are seen in this illustration dating to Nov. 26, 2019.
Free speech
Turkey passes ‘draconian’ social media legislation
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Climate Change
Major environmental groups join Facebook ad boycott to protest climate misinformation
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Top of The World
Facebook suspends data requests from Hong Kong authorities; Ocean Viking docks in Sicily; Pink glacial ice
A 3D-printed Facebook logo is seen placed on a keyboard in this illustration taken March 25, 2020.
Social media
Facebook will pay $52M to US content moderators for trauma on the job. What about its international contractors?
Facebook Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg attends the annual Munich Security Conference in Germany, on Feb. 15, 2020.
Analysis: Facebook is undermining democracy
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Social media
‘Straight-up debunking’: How a fact-checker vets fake news
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Period apps share your fertility data with Facebook
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Facebook wants to create a ‘Supreme Court’ for content moderation. Will it work?
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Technology
Germany to restrict Facebook’s data gathering activities
Screenshots of Facebook posts
Why I can’t quit Facebook: I want to click ‘love’ when I see refugees’ big milestones
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We asked listeners why they can’t quit Facebook. Here’s what you said.
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Facebook is a persuasion platform that’s changing the advertising rulebook
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Technology
Historian: Technology and politics has always been dysfunctional in the US
A campaigner from a political pressure group wears an oversized mask of founder and CEO of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg
International lawmakers seek global regulations for social media
A former UN official campaigning for peace shows a threatening message posted against him on social media by separatists
Media
Facebook’s Cameroon problem: stop stoking hate
Brazil's President Michel Temer with "FAKE" spelled out behind his head
Global Politics
Brazil fights online misinformation during election season
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Facebooks admits shortcomings as it confronts hate speech in Myanmar
fake news
On eve of Mexican election, fake news still thrives on social media
A protester holds an European Union flag next to cardboard cutouts depicting Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg during a demonstration ahead of a meeting between Zuckerberg and leaders of the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium, May 22, 2018.
Technology
European lawmakers had tough questions for Mark Zuckerberg. For the most part, he ducked them.
A hand holds a mobile phone with a Facebook logo and the message "this site cannot be reached."
Global Politics
For years, activists in Southeast Asia warned Facebook that content on the platform could lead to real-life violence. Then it did.
Dozens of cardboard cutouts of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg are seen during an Avaaz.org protest outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., April 10, 2018.
Conflict
Activists in Myanmar welcome Zuckerberg’s pledge to clamp down on hate speech. But is it enough?
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before a House Energy and Commerce Committee
Technology
The social media generation casts a wary eye on Facebook founder’s testimony
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg listens while testifying before a joint Senate
Justice
Lawmakers want to know about Facebook’s operations beyond the US
Silhouettes of people looking at their mobile phones in front of Facebook's logo.
Global Politics
Facebook says data leak hits 87 million users, widening privacy scandal
People walk past in a blur the building housing the offices of Cambridge Analytica in central London.
Global Politics
Academic behind Facebook breach says political influence was exaggerated
New artificial-intelligence-enabled algorithms have allowed video editors a whole new array of tools to make fake videos even more believable.
Culture
AI-based fake videos pose the latest threat to what we perceive as reality — and possibly our democracy
Doctor Frankenstein and his monster, depicted here at the Movieland Wax Museum in Niagara Falls, Canada, have become a fixture of Halloween lore.
Books
On the 200-year anniversary of Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein,’ we look at some possible modern-day monsters in the tech world
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Global Politics
UN: Traffickers use social media to lure migrants to slavery, death
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Election 2016
Watch live: Social media giants to testify in Senate Russia hearing on disinformation
President of the Chamber of Deputies Laura Boldrini welcomes students from Sicily to the Italian Parliament. Photo from Facebok, October 2, 2017.
Global Politics
This Italian politician wants kids to become ‘fake news hunters’
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Global Politics
Britain asks Facebook for information about suspected Russian influence in Brexit
UNC professor Zeynep Tufekci says Facebook is offering the news equivalent of Halloween candy.
Media
How to stop Facebook when its newsfeed ‘serves Halloween candy for breakfast, lunch and dinner’
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Technology
Maintaining real relationships in the digital world
Nigerians held vigils for the girls kidnapped by the extremist group Boko Haram on the one year anniversary of their abduction, April 14, 2015.
Conflict
Facebook safety checks arrive in Nigeria, but some ask if it’s worth celebrating
People's Daily
Media
China’s state newspaper has over 5 million Facebook fans — even though Facebook is banned in China.
Entrepreneur and author Andrew Keen argues that the free model of the Internet isn’t really free at all.
Technology
The Internet may be hurting all of us
Cartoon posted to NyanHline's Brainwave Facebook page which is devoted to expressions of protest over the violence directed at Burmese students carrying out a 400-mile march from Mandalay to Yangon. The peacock is an image that goes back to the 1988 prote
Conflict
Students in Myanmar document government thugs through cartoons
Anna Sandalova, the founder of Help the Army of Ukraine delivered supplies to Ukraine's cash-strapped soldiers in Artemovsk, Donetsk so they could build winter shelters.
Conflict
Ukrainians turn to Facebook to fund their army’s war with Vladimir Putin
Protesters stand behind a photo of a victim of self-immolation during a 2012 march in New York City in support of Tibet.
Business
A prominent Tibetan activist thinks Facebook deleted her post to cozy up to China
My memorials
Culture
Social media is transforming the way we view death and grieving
Rasha Abdulla overlooking Tahrir Square just hours before Hosni Mubarak stepped down from power.
Conflict
Egypt’s social media activists cannot depend solely on Twitter, Facebook
People are silhouetted as they pose with mobile devices in front of a screen projected with a Facebook logo
Culture
This is why you should leave racists in your Facebook feed
Alanah Pearce is a game reviewer on a web TV show called Button Bash
Culture
This journalist replies to young boys who send her rape threats on Facebook by telling their mothers
Noor
Conflict
Young Lebanese activist joins us on Facebook
Satellite dishes at GCHQ's outpost at Bude, close to where trans-Atlantic fiber-optic cables come ashore in Cornwall, southwest England.
Justice
Why British intelligence wants your Facebook data
An employee demonstrates the preparation to take eggs with a needle at the e-Stork Reproductive Center in Hsinchu in northern Taiwan.
Health
Egg freezing may be more of a distraction than a big new perk for tech employees
A Chinese national flag, at center, flies upside down on September 29, 2014. Chinese living in mainland China know very little of the pro-democracy protests taking place in Hong Kong.
Conflict
Hong Kong has grabbed headlines around the world — except in Beijing
Migrants wait for a "coyote," the colloquial term for people smugglers, about 60 miles south of the U.S.-Mexico border in the Mexican state of Sonora. Coyotes call their clients "pollos," or chickens.
Global Politics
Facebook offers the best advertising for migrant-smuggling coyotes
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Business, Economics and Jobs
Many hated how Facebook manipulated personal emotions. The one group that didn’t? Dictators
HSPH Forum
Health & Medicine
Delaying pregnancy in the US and around the world
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Lifestyle & Belief
It’s ‘Colombia,’ not ‘Columbia’ — get it right
Vkontakte
Environment
Does the Kremlin now control the Facebook of Russia?
Vkontakte
Environment
Does the Kremlin now control the Facebook of Russia?