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— Mehreen (@MehreenKhn) October 3, 2019

After Facebook’s data scandal, where about 50 actor profiles were harvested for Cambridge Analytica, users vowed to leave the belvedere for good. Fast advanced a year, and stats prove that people did absolutely flock from the social arrangement — by the millions even. 

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is accepting his advisers ready for what could turn out to be the better threat his company’s faced yet: a 70-year-old woman from Oklahoma.

For the past five years, we’ve heard endless letters on how hard agreeable balance really is, and moderators at social networking giant Facebook could have it the toughest. Earlier this year, The Verge’s Casey Newton appear an commodity titled “The Trauma Floor” which appear the secret lives of Facebook moderators in America, and more specifically, the agonizing altitude these advisers were tasked with on a daily basis. 

Facebook’s plans to open up its data vault for advisers to assay the platform’s access on elections has run into aloofness concerns.

Popular social game developer Zynga has reportedly become the latest victim of a massive data breach impacting some 218 actor accounts.

TikTok‘s 500 actor users aren’t there to fight about politics, troll their enemies, or shitpost for lolz. They’re mostly a association of inclusive, alert agreeable creators who abutment one another. You can thank the Chinese government’s charge to exporting censorship for that.

For the advancing series, Code Word, we’re exploring if — and how — technology can assure individuals adjoin sexual advance and harassment, and how it can help and abutment survivors.

The treaty amid the US and the UK to acknowledge advice of individuals doubtable of austere bent acts will not crave social media platforms to install backdoors or break end-to-end encryption, a added assay of the CLOUD Act reveals.