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How a confused, defensive social media giant steered itself into a disaster, and how Mark Zuckerberg is trying to fix it all.
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Facebook was forged in its founders image. So unlike traditional companies—say Google or Microsoft—Zuckerberg’s silence has already harmed his bottom line.
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Mark Zuckerberg Speaks Out on Cambridge Analytica Scandal
After a series of revelations of data misuse ballooned into a company crisis, Facebook's founder finally broke his silence.
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A Complete Guide to Facebook's Privacy and Security Settings
Despite the repeated privacy lapses, Facebook offers a fairly robust set of tools to control who knows what about you.
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Cambridge Analytica Suspends CEO Amid Scandals
Alexander Nix has been suspended until further notice and replaced by Cambridge's head of data, Alexander Tayler.
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Two new books offer radically different approaches to how people should think about smartphones and social media.
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Students Are Likely Writing Millions of Papers With AI
Turnitin, a service that checks papers for plagiarism, says its detection tool found millions of papers that may have a significant amount of AI-generated content.
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