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Opinion | Easiest fix for Facebook: Break it up

Remove Instagram and WhatsApp from Facebook, and the social media universe will no longer be the oligopoly that it has morphed into

6 min read22 Nov 2018
News

Reddit’s fight against Donald Trump’s troll army

As social media misuse puts democratic elections across the world in peril, what happened on Reddit in 2016 offers important lessons

10 min read16 Nov 2018
News

The plot to subvert an election: Unraveling the Russia story so far

For two years, Americans have tried to absorb the details of the 2016 US election hacking and President Donald Trump's claims that it's all a hoax

46 min read21 Sep 2018
Companies

Facebook, Twitter defend efforts to stop election meddling

Twitter's CEO will also face angry Republicans who claim the companies have shown evidence of bias against conservatives

4 min read6 Sep 2018
Companies

Facebook enhancing security features, big focus on India 2019 elections: Mark Zuckerberg

Terming 2018 a 'big year' for elections, Mark Zuckerberg said Facebook was enhancing its security features to prevent trolls from spreading information

3 min read5 Apr 2018
Companies

How Cambridge Analytica procured Facebook data

Here is everything we know so far about Cambridge Analytica, the data analytics firm at the centre of the Facebook data breach scandal

4 min read29 Mar 2018
Opinion

Great swings in the ‘information asymmetry’, and Facebook

India needs regulators to step in to decide who gets to use private data and who doesn't

3 min read27 Mar 2018
Market

Facebook shares tumble as US regulator announces privacy probe

Facebook shares briefly dipped below $150 on Monday for the first time since July 2017 after US FTC said it will probe how Facebook allowed user data to get into the hands of Cambridge Analytica

1 min read26 Mar 2018
Opinion

On the Facebook data breach

Cambridge Analytica, under now suspended CEO Alexander Nix, allegedly accessed Facebook user information that was used to help elect US President Donald Trump in 2016

1 min read22 Mar 2018
Opinion

Is Big Data a threat to free democratic choice?

The Cambridge Analytica controversy raises several uncomfortable questions

4 min read22 Mar 2018
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