November 21, 2017 Google collects data on Android users' locations when location services are turned off, report says A new report shows that Google has been accessing data about Android users' locations, even when the user believes that the data is being kept private.
November 21, 2017 Google plans to 'derank' articles from Russian media outlets Russia Today and Sputnik in search Google plans to ‘derank’ Russian articles from media outlets Russia Today (RT) and Sputnik following alleged Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. Presidential election.
November 16, 2017 Facebook, Google, publishers fight fake news with 'trust indicators' It’s hard to know what to trust in the era of fake news.
November 9, 2017 Google will revamp algorithm after surfacing fake news tweets on Texas church shooter Google says it will improve its algorithm after surfacing fake news tweets on Texas gunman Devin Patrick Kelley, who killed 26 people in a horrific church attack Sunday.
November 1, 2017 Facebook, Twitter, Google execs testify on Capitol Hill as part of Russia probe A Facebook executive told a Senate panel Tuesday that they “should have had a broader lens” into currency used for payments of political advertisements on their social media platform during the 2016 presidential election.
October 31, 2017 Petition urges Facebook to reveal details of 'Russian propaganda' More than 81,000 people have signed a petition calling on Facebook to inform users how they were exposed to “Russian propaganda.”
October 27, 2017 Opioid crisis: Sellers tout prescription drugs on social media Social media giants unwittingly help fuel illegal opioid trade as ads make their way onto YouTube, Facebook.
October 26, 2017 Google is recording everything you say to a bot – right now I made this discovery by accident.
October 20, 2017 Google parent Alphabet turns on internet balloons in Puerto Rico Google's parent Alphabet Inc. said Friday that its stratospheric balloons are now delivering the internet to remote areas of Puerto Rico where cellphone towers were knocked out by Hurricane Maria.
October 20, 2017 Google's artificial intelligence computer 'no longer constrained by limits of human knowledge' The computer that stunned humanity by beating the best mortal players at a strategy board game requiring “intuition” has become even smarter, its creators claim.
