End “Shitcoin Shilling” on Facebook With Chrome’s Social Fixer Plugin
Even though Facebook is taking an aggressive stance toward cryptocurrencies and ICOs, news feeds are still clogged up with related content. For users who want to get rid of …
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Are Social Platforms Responsible for User-Generated Content?
November 1, 2017
News, Technology
Allegations of the Trump Administration colluding with Russia to influence the 2016 election have flared up again. While that’s intriguing in its own right, it’s far more interesting to take a look at how …
Facebook Contemplates Using Facial Recognition Technology to Verify User Identities
October 2, 2017
News, Technology
Any reason to use facial recognition technology will always be scrutinized by privacy advocates. Especially now that Facebook plans to use this technology for account verification, there is plenty of …
Tor Co-Founder: There Is No Dark Web
At the DEF CON hacking convention in Las Vegas, one of the three co-founders of Tor, Roger Dingledine, corrected a few misconceptions regarding what the Tor Project is really being …
Facebook Shuts Down Negotiating AI After It Created Its Own Language
August 2, 2017
News, Technology
Back in June, we ran a story on how Facebook had created chat bots capable of negotiating and, inadvertently, also taught them how to lie. The bots lied by learning from …
Facebook’s Free Basics Initiative Is All About Collecting User Data
July 29, 2017
News, Technology
Facebook does many different things at once. It has become so much more than just the parent company of the world’s largest social media platform. Over the years, Facebook …
Facebook Trains Bots to Negotiate, Inadvertently Teaches Them How to Lie
June 22, 2017
News, Technology
Artificial Intelligence (AI) seems to be constantly improving. It’s already able to create AI by itself, and now Facebook has been training bots to learn how to negotiate, a complex …
Deleting Your Digital – Angsty – Past
May 21, 2017
News, Technology
Ever been at a party when you were a teenager and had some less than flattering pictures of yourself posted on Facebook? Perhaps you -like me- went through a …
Google and Facebook Lose US$100m in Wire Fraud Scam
May 1, 2017
News, Technology
It is never positive to learn large technology companies can fall victim to online scams just like everyone else. Earlier this week, both Google and Facebook suffered from a …