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    Facebook to Remove 1.5 Billion People From Group Getting New Privacy ProtectionsFacebook is changing its terms of service for non-European users, meaning they won’t be covered by the EU’s new privacy protections.
    By Brian Feldman
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    ‘I Fundamentally Believe That My Time at Reddit Made the World a Worse Place’A conversation with former Reddit product head Dan McComas on the problems with Reddit, Twitter, and the rest of the web.
    By Noah Kulwin
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    Should You Hire a Pro to Smarten Your Home?Please don’t electrocute yourself. It’s so much easier than you’re making it. There are people trained to do these things.
    By Jake Swearingen
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    We Finally Know How Many Amazon Prime Subscribers Exist: 100 MillionA closely guarded statistic finally sees the light of day.
    By Brian Feldman
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    Bitcoin Criminal Escapes Prison, Flees on Plane With Prime MinisterHe managed to get out of prison and make it to Sweden.
    By Brian Feldman
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    ‘F*ck Them. We Need a Law’: A Legendary Programmer Takes on Silicon ValleyA conversation with legendary programmer Richard Stallman on the real meaning of “privacy rights” and why he only ever uses cash.
    By Noah Kulwin
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    Facebook Previews Underwhelming Privacy TweaksThe system appears designed to gain informed consent without actually informing.
    By Brian Feldman
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    Tech Companies Confirm: War BadDozens of tech companies signed a “cybersecurity accord” this week pledging to protect the innocent.
    By Brian Feldman
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    Why Do My Exes Hate My Echo So Much?All of my exes hated how I talked to my Echo Dot. An investigation into why.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
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    A Paranoid Guide to Smart-Speaker PrivacyThe demon boxes cater to your every need! How much should you trust them?
    By Kaveh Waddell
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    Jaron Lanier Q&A: ‘We Won, and We Turned Into Assholes’Tech pioneer Jaron Lanier discusses the sinking feeling you get when you’re quoted by Mark Zuckerberg, and everything else bad about the internet.
    By Noah Kulwin
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    Facebook: Yeah, We Track Your Every Move, But So Does Everyone ElseFacebook explains how it gathers your web history, but not what it does with it.
    By Brian Feldman
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    The Untold Story of Jaime Levy, Punk-Rock Cyber-Publishing PioneerHow a punk-rock kid from L.A. created some of the coolest publications of the 1990s.
    By Claire L. Evans
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    Report: The Tesla Factory Is Dangerous Because Elon Musk Hates YellowHe also reportedly dislikes having “too many signs” and beeping noises from forklifts.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
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    Alexa, Where Am I? Welcome to Home, Smart HomeWelcome to a new pop-up blog about smart homes and the people who build, develop, want, live in, and are fascinated by them.
    By Graham Starr
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    The Smart-Home Future Is Already HereBill Gates maybe spent too much on his geek dream 20 years ago.
    By Jake Swearingen
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    Q&A With Ellen Pao on Reddit, Facebook, and the Future of the InternetEllen Pao, former Reddit CEO, discusses Reddit’s focus on growth, Facebook’s homogeneity, and whether anything can be changed.
    By Noah Kulwin
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    Facebook Is Too Big to ExplainFacebook makes more money when users don’t know what they’ve signed up for.
    By Brian Feldman
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    It’s Raining, It’s Pouring, Water’s Flooding the Subway FlooringCommuters on Monday morning faced some very damp conditions.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
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    Selling Crack to Children: Inside the Silicon Valley Grift Machine“Without rampant, unchecked fraud, I came to realize, the entire digital media business would collapse.”
    By Corey Pein
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    Walmart Yodeler Is Going to CoachellaMason Ramsey has a busy weekend ahead of him.
    By Brian Feldman
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    Facebook Deletes Several of Richard Spencer’s Hate GroupsDuring his congressional testimony, Zuckerberg said hate groups are not allowed on Facebook.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
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    An Apology for the Internet — From the Architects Who Built ItEven those who designed our digital world are aghast at what they created. A breakdown of what went wrong.
    By Noah Kulwin
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    Tesla to NTSB: You Can’t Fire Me, I QuitThe car company was removed from an investigation into a crash involving one of its self-driving cars.
    By Brian Feldman
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    There Is No Panamanian Conspiracy to Smear James ComeyThere is a very easy way to find out who created LyinComey.com.
    By Brian Feldman
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    Apple’s HomePod Struggles to Find a HomeUsers just aren’t drawn to the premium device.
    By Brian Feldman
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    With Traffic Down, Publishers Worry About the Future of Snapchat“I feel like we don’t get the full story whenever I talk to Snapchat.”
    By Madison Malone Kircher
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    Even Congress Believes That Facebook Spies on Your IRL ConversationsWhen the end result is the same, do technical distinctions even matter?
    By Brian Feldman
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    Who Are Diamond and Silk, and Why Can’t Congress Stop Asking Zuck About Them?A brief explainer on the infamous Trump-supporting YouTube duo.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
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    Uber … But for Renting a Car and Buying a MetroCardThe ride-hailing company announced several new business ventures on Wednesday.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
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    Mark Zuckerberg Wants You to Think You’re in Control of Your Data. You’re Not.In his testimony before senators, Zuckerberg claimed that users have strong controls over their data. Is he sure about that?
    By Brian Feldman
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    The Best Tweets From Mark Zuckerberg’s Big Day in CongressJust some good tweets.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
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    ‘These People Have Abdicated Any Sort of Responsibility": Q&A With Ex-FacebookerA conversation with former Facebook product manager Antonio Garcia Martinez on Mark Zuckerberg’s “disingenuous and strange” reaction to the election.
    By Noah Kulwin
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    ‘The Media Has an Ax to Grind’: a Former Employee Defends FacebookA conversation with former Facebook designer Soleio Cuervo on what the media gets wrong about Facebook and why regulation is unnecessary.
    By Noah Kulwin
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    A Propaganda Engine ‘Unlike Any in History’: Q&A With Early Facebook InvestorA conversation with early Facebook investor Roger McNamee on propaganda, early warning signs, and why outrage is so addictive.
    By Noah Kulwin
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    A Former Zuckerberg Speechwriter on What He Doesn’t UnderstandA conversation with former Zuckerberg speechwriter Kate Losse on how the Facebook founder thinks and what is hardest for him to wrap his mind around.
    By Noah Kulwin
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    ‘It’s Fundamentally Addictive’: a Q&A With an Ex-Facebook EmployeeFormer Facebook manager Sandy Parakilas on privacy, addiction, and why Facebook needs to “dramatically” change its business model.
    By Noah Kulwin
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    Facebook Allegedly Helped Vietnamese Government Silence DissidentsA group of journalist and civil-rights activists penned an open letter to the company.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
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    Here’s All the Things Congress Might Lecture Zuckerberg AboutIt’s Mark’s big day on Capitol Hill.
    By Brian Feldman
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    Why Videos Are Clear on Your Phone and Blurry OnlineKim Kardashian West asks, we answer.
    By Brian Feldman
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    YouTube Is Reportedly Violating Children’s Privacy LawMore than 20 consumer groups have teamed up to file a federal complaint against the platform.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
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    Mindy Kaling Gets Final Word on the ‘If You Don’t Love Me at My’ MemeOne of several popular memes on Twitter this week.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
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    Does Anyone Want to Hear My Internal Voice? Anyone?Researchers at MIT invented a device that lets you … hear your own thoughts. And maybe talk to Alexa.
    By Kari Sonde
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    ‘Cruzers’ and the Dark World of School-Shooter Culture OnlineIt took just minutes for the first photograph of alleged school shooter Nikolas Cruz to go viral on Tumblr and school-shooter message boards.
    By Dina Temple-Raston
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    Facebook to Let All Users Unsend Messages After Letting Zuckerberg Do ItSome users have reported that old messages from Mark Zuckerberg have vanished from their Facebook in-boxes.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
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    What’s Up With the Sparkles All Over Twitter?It’s kinda all over the place.
    By Brian Feldman
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    Why That American Chopper Meme Is So Hard to ReadIt comes from the Old Internet.
    By Brian Feldman
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    Facebook Estimates Cambridge Analytica Had Data on 87 Million AmericansThe new statistic is buried at the bottom of its latest changes.
    By Brian Feldman
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    Facebook Broke Tinder, and Everybody Was Horny and Mad About ItFacebook’s new data privacy rules temporarily locked many Tinder users out of their accounts.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
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    Internal Report Highlights Why Trump Was Better at FacebookHe was focused on donations, while Clinton was focused on likability.
    By Brian Feldman
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