Facebook

Amid Allegations of Bias, Facebook Explains How 'Trending Topics' Works

8:51pm May 12, 2016

by Alina Selyukh

The release of the internal document represents Facebook's continued pushback against claims that the social media network discriminated against conservative news sources.

A Facebook official said the company has found no evidence to back up allegations that company contractors suppressed stories of interest to conservatives in its trending topics section.

Is Facebook Suppressing Politically Conservative Content?

6:09pm May 10, 2016

by Laura Wagner

The fallout continues after the tech website Gizmodo published an article on Monday alleging that Facebook wasn't just relying on algorithms to identify trending topics on the social media platform.

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#NPRreads: 3 Stories To Soak Up This Weekend

1:36pm April 23, 2016

The premise of #NPRreads is simple: Correspondents, editors and producers from our newsroom share the pieces that have kept them reading and each weekend, we highlight some of the best stories.

Illustration of people communicating via computers.

Arts

When You Become The Person You Hate On The Internet

11:23am March 30, 2016

by Sarah Hepola

Author Sarah Hepola has complained for years about the random hatred of the Internet. Then, with one careless post, she became part of the problem.

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National

Care For A Career Change-Up? These Stories Are Proof It's Never Too Late

12:11pm March 26, 2016

by NPR Staff

One of the keys to staying happy in your career as the years go by is finding a purpose or meaning to it. Sometimes that means rethinking your job in your middle years.

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From the Apple and FBI dispute in the U.S. to a legal case in Brazil involving the WhatsApp messaging service, U.S. tech companies are finding themselves subject to widely varying laws for cooperating with local police.

World News

For U.S. Tech Firms Abroad And Data In The Cloud, Whose Laws Apply?

5:16pm March 03, 2016

by Martin Kaste

The FBI's efforts to unlock the San Bernardino iPhone is one fight in a larger global conflict: Firms face varying laws for police cooperation and say a lack of legal standards is creating a crisis.

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Facebook board member Marc Andreessen, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist who uses Twitter prolifically, has apologized for tweets suggesting he supported colonialism.

World News

Colonialism Comment Puts Facebook Under Scrutiny

6:37pm February 12, 2016

by Aarti Shahani

A Facebook board member lambasted a decision by regulators in India, the social network's second-largest market. He thereby sparked new scrutiny of Facebook's intentions in that country.

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Members of Indian Youth Congress — a wing of the National Congress party — and National Students Union of India protest for Internet freedom in April 2015 in New Delhi.

World News

Should India's Internet Be Free Of Charge, Or Free Of Control?

9:10am February 11, 2016

by Julie McCarthy

Facebook's free Internet service was banned in India on the basis of net neutrality this week. Internet providers, regulators say, should not be allowed "to shape the users' Internet experience."

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Twitter Tries A New Kind Of Timeline By Predicting What May Interest You

2:06pm February 10, 2016

by Alina Selyukh

Twitter has struggled to attract new users. Its latest effort at rejuvenation is a new kind of timeline that predicts which older posts you might not want to miss and displays them on top.

How To Get Dads To Take Parental Leave? Seeing Other Dads Do It

12:05pm February 08, 2016

by Dianna Douglas

Social scientists see long-term benefits to new dads spending a few months caring for a baby. But these studies won't nudge fathers to take leave if they still see a work culture that frowns on it.

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