For years, watchdogs have warned of the potential problems of sharing data with online companies. The Facebook data crisis has made these concerns much more real. What should be done now?
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Personality tests played a central role in the recent Facebook scandal over corporate harvesting of personal data. Why are businesses so interested in them?
Scholars discuss the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal: what happened, what’s at stake, how to fix it, and what could come next.
When thinking about regulating them, it’s useful to know Facebook, Amazon, Google, Apple and Microsoft have some similarities. But generally they’re not competing with each other – or anyone else.
Users shouldn’t trust Facebook, but that doesn’t mean they should immediately abandon what has become a crucial platform for connectedness.
Several critical Canadian elections are ahead. Here’s what governments and social media companies must do to assure Canadians that their online personal data won’t be used to manipulate results.
There are a lot of misconceptions about how social media is changing society. Here are some of the most important.
A scholar of digital trust evaluates Facebook’s current efforts and proposes some improvements the company could make.
The British Election Study results have called the notion of a 2017 ‘youthquake’ into question. But that doesn’t mean parties will abandon social media campaigning any time soon.
Social media companies arose from libertarian, free-market origins but must embrace social benefits and democracy to survive.
The way people use social media – and the algorithms inside those systems – increases passions, and drives people to polarizing extremes.
The world has much to learn from the maturity, restraint and negotiation skills of one small country facing two superpowers
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