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Facebook Tests Tool to Move Photos to Google, Other Rivals
Facebook has started testing a tool that lets users move their images more easily to other online services, as it faces pressure from regulators to loosen its grip on data.
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Snoop Dogg's Infant Grandson Dead 10 Days After Birth
Snoop Dogg’s grandson, Kai Love, has passed away.
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Friends With Benefits: Facebook Dating Launches in US
Facebook is tackling a new frontier: love. Facebook Dating, a matchmaking service the company already offers in Brazil, Canada and 17 other countries , will arrive in the U.S. on Thursday. But after years of privacy missteps by the social network, will people trust it with their love lives? The mobile-only feature is part of Facebook’s ongoing attempt to reach...
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Miley Cyrus Slams Rumors She Cheated on Liam Hemsworth
The singer took to Twitter to set the record straight on their split
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Hoda Kotb Announces ‘Today' Return Date as She Finishes Maternity Leave
The anchor will be back Sept. 3 after the “best summer” of her entire life.
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Facebook Rolls Out Tool to Block Off-Facebook Data Gathering
Soon, you could get fewer familiar ads following you around the internet — or at least on Facebook. Facebook is launching a long-promised tool that lets you block the social network from gathering information about you on outside websites and apps.
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Armie Hammer's Wife Claps Back At Haters
Armie Hammer’s wife is clapping back at the haters. Elizabeth Chambers took to the comments section of a post from Perez Hilton to set the record straight after a video of their 2-year-old son Ford sucking the actor’s toes went viral.
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Kids Get to Create Their Own Superhero Stories at NYC's Newest Comic Book Store
If you saw the kids at Loot, Brooklyn’s newest comic book store, you’d think they were your average shoppers.
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Kids Get a Deep Dive in Comic Books at Brooklyn's “Loot”
Tucked in Brooklyn’s Carroll Gardens neighborhood lies a new comic book store called Loot, a shop boasting a plethora of selections of a longtime medium for a newer, younger audience.
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In early June, 125 people protested in the nude outside the New York City headquarters of Facebook and Instagram, covering themselves with stickers of photographed male nipples in protest of the long-argued double standard that only female nipples are against the company’s policies. The pressure campaign worked, NBC News reports. Facebook said it would organize a group of artists, educators...
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As Facebook Cracks Down on Hate Speech, It's Also Re-Evaluating Another Policy: Nipples
In early June, 125 people protested in the nude outside the New York City headquarters of Facebook and Instagram, covering themselves with stickers of photographed male nipples in protest of the long-argued double standard that only female nipples are against the company’s policies. The pressure campaign worked, NBC News reports. Facebook said it would organize a group of artists, educators...
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Analysis: ‘Game of Thrones' Doesn't Mark the End of Appointment TV — Hollywood Always Gives Viewers What They Want
If you’re heading to a “Game of Thrones” watch party this weekend, you might already be waxing nostalgic about the end of appointment television. Is this the last time you’ll ever gather with your friends to watch a show, knowing so many others are watching it at the same time, ready to discuss it real time on Twitter or the...
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Instagram May Stop Showing How Many People ‘Like' Each Post
Facebook-owned Instagram is going to test hiding “like” counts this week as a way to make “a less pressurized environment” on the app, Head of Instagram Adam Mosseri announced on Tuesday. “We want people to worry a little bit less about how many likes they’re getting on Instagram and spend a bit more time connecting with the people that they...
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Facebook Anticipates an FTC Privacy Fine of up to $5 Billion
Facebook said it expects a fine of up to $5 billion from the Federal Trade Commission, which is investigating whether the social network violated its users’ privacy. The company set aside $3 billion in its quarterly earnings report Wednesday as a contingency against the possible penalty but noted that the “matter remains unresolved.”
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After Mueller Report, Twitter Bots Pushed ‘Russiagate Hoax' Narrative
A network of more than 5,000 pro-Trump Twitter bots railed against the “Russiagate hoax” shortly after the release of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report last week, according to data gathered by a prominent disinformation researcher and analyzed by NBC News. The network illustrates the ongoing challenge Twitter faces in persistent efforts to manipulate its platform. These bots did not appear...
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Mark Zuckerberg Leveraged Facebook User Data to Fight Rivals and Help Friends, Leaked Documents Show
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg oversaw plans to consolidate the social network’s power and control competitors by treating its users’ data as a bargaining chip, while publicly proclaiming to be protecting that data, according to about 4,000 pages of leaked company documents largely spanning 2011 to 2015 and obtained by NBC News. The documents, which include emails, webchats, presentations, spreadsheets and...
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Pinterest Sets Sights on Raising $1.5B in First Public Share Offering
Pinterest, among a gaggle of tech companies planning to go public this year, hopes to raise as much as $1.5 billion in its initial offering of shares. The digital scrapbooking site said in a regulatory filing Monday that it will put about 75 million shares up for sale at a price between $15 and $17 each. That, at the higher...
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Facebook Extends Ban on Hate Speech to ‘White Nationalists'
Facebook is extending its ban on hate speech to prohibit the promotion and support of white nationalism and white separatism. The company previously allowed such material even though it has long banned white supremacists. The social network said Wednesday that it didn’t apply the ban previously to expressions of white nationalism because it linked such expressions with broader concepts of...
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Facebook Is Blocking Ads That Target Women With Menopause But Allows Ads From Companies Selling Pills for Erectile Dysfunction
Amy Buckalter didn’t give it a second thought when she decided to use Facebook to advertise for her start-up, Pulse, in late 2017. Buckalter knew her male friends saw all sorts of raunchy ads addressing erectile dysfunction on Facebook constantly, so she figured her lubricant for women going through menopause would be just fine. She was wrong. For the past...
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UK Lawmakers Slam Facebook, Recommend Stiffer Regulation
British lawmakers issued a scathing report Monday that accused Facebook of intentionally violating privacy and anti-competition laws in the U.K., and called for greater oversight of social media companies. The report on fake news and disinformation on social media sites followed an 18-month investigation. The parliamentary committee that prepared the report says social media sites should have to follow a...