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Indonesian government Cabinet Member says he will shut down #Facebook if necessary #DeleteFacebook

Indonesian government Cabinet Member says he will shut down #Facebook if necessary #DeleteFacebook

And Youtube and Twitter if necessary: An Indonesian cabinet member has threatened to shut down Facebook if there is any evidence the personal data of citizens is being harvested. Source: Indonesia Threatens to Shut Down Facebook If Privacy Breached – Bloomberg Under the law of Indonesia, Facebook can face large fines and jail time for employees for violating their privacy laws.

Social media companies really do read your posts, emails and documents

Social media companies really do read your posts, emails and documents

Google’s GMail service “scans” your emails and Google Docs to serve you ads. The word “scans” implies scanning for keywords but that is a false assumption about what is actually being done. Natural language processing technology has advanced to where these algorithms are the equivalent of someone reading all of your emails and taking notes. Literally, online services are reading all of your email and building dossiers on what they think they know about you, ostensibly to better target advertising…

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Facebook hides posts from pages you follow but it’s only a test, they say

Facebook hides posts from pages you follow but it’s only a test, they say

Facebook Explore Feed is rolling out globally this week. Most people around the world can see it in their bookmarks and they can discover new content here. But in Slovakia, Sri Lanka, Serbia, Bolivia, Guatemala and Cambodia it works differently: all posts by pages are moved from newsfeed to Explore Feed. In main newsfeed are now just friend and sponsored posts. Yes, you log into Facebook and you can see only posts from your friends and ads. You have to…

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Cleaning up your social media news feed #politics #socialmedia #propaganda

Cleaning up your social media news feed #politics #socialmedia #propaganda

Last winter I created an informal policy on what to do about the propaganda appearing in my social media news feed, particularly Facebook. As remarked on this blog, social media is a frictionless platform for the rapid spread of propaganda messaging. Many people are outraged over something and for whatever reason are compelled to share their outrage online. Being outraged all the time is not likely a healthy state of life. Thrusting your outrage on to your “friends” is probably…

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Facebook censors a newspaper's use of famous historical photo

Facebook censors a newspaper's use of famous historical photo

Mark Zuckerberg has been accused of an abuse of power after Facebook censored one of the most famous images of the Vietnam war from Facebook. Source: Mark Zuckerberg accused of abusing power after Facebook censors Vietnam war ‘napalm girl’ photo Facebook censored the use, by Norway’s largest newspaper, of a very famous historical photo from the Vietnam war, taken by a Pulitzer Prize winning photographer. Facebook then censored the prime minister of Norway when she posted the censored photo on…

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