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Your Facebook Friends May Be Unintentionally Hurting You Daily

Social media sites often present users with social exclusion information that may actually inhibit intelligent thought, according to the co-author of a University at Buffalo study. This study takes a critical look not just at Facebook and other similar platforms, but at the peculiarities of the systems on which these sites operate. The short-term effects ...

Troy Oakes

U.S. Tech Companies Agreeing to Censorship Is Bad for Human Rights

U.S. tech companies like Google and Facebook are increasingly courting Beijing in a bid to break into the Chinese market. But the cost of entry requires them to accept censorship and be a partner to grievous human rights violations, actions that will have dire consequences even in the United States. Kneeling before censorship Google pulled ...

Nspirement Staff

Facebook headquarters.

Facebook Admits to a Major Glitch That Unblocked Accounts

A new glitch on Facebook affected thousands of users’ privacy settings. And though the company has patched the bug and returned things back to normal, Facebook’s increasing privacy breaches are definitely becoming a cause for concern. The blocking bug The bug reportedly allowed people who had been blocked by a user to have access to ...

Nspirement Staff

What’s Happening With Facebook?

Facebook finds itself, yet again, in midst of a “data” crisis, and Mark Zuckerberg, the face of the company, is trying very hard to defend himself and his company from tough questions and the possibility of increased regulations. It’s a difficult time for the company, as it is already under scrutiny for the case of ...

Armin Auctor

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg.

The Facebook Scandal: What We Know So Far

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO and co-founder of Facebook (FB), recently sat before dozens of U.S. senators and was questioned about his company’s most recent involvement in the data-misuse affair involving Cambridge Analytica, a UK-based political consultancy company that had access to the personal data of millions of FB users. Zuckerberg said: “We didn’t take a broad ...

Hermann Rohr