Technology Her SIM card was jacked, and here's why that should make you nervous Every year, thousands of people fall victim to this little known hack. Deborah Wang
Technology How China Uses Twitter And Facebook To Share Disinformation About Hong Kong Russia gets most of the attention when it comes to malicious use of social media by state actors. The protests in Hong Kong have made clear China is using the same playbook. Emily Feng
National Lawmaker Aims To Curb Social Media Addiction With New Bill Sen. Josh Hawley's Social Media Addiction Reduction Technology, or SMART, Act would ban features that encourage prolonged engagement such as infinite scrolling and autoplay. Abigail Clukey
Law & Courts FTC To Hold Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Liable For Any Future Privacy Violations Under a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission, the company will pay $5 billion and its co-founder could be subject to penalties if Facebook doesn't comply with the agreement. Aarti Shahani Avie Schneider
Technology Tech Firms To Face Lawmakers Over Antitrust, Digital Currency Lawmakers in the Senate and House will question lobbyists and officials from Facebook, Google, Amazon and Apple on an array of issues, including whether they're so big they stifle competition. Aarti Shahani Avie Schneider
Politics Far-Right Social Media Personalities Headed To The White House The Trump administration has invited high-profile, conservative activists and bloggers to the White House for a social media summit. But they did not invite Facebook and Twitter. Jasmine Garsd
Business Why Facebook Won't Kick Off A Warlord Facebook banned far-right extremist Alex Jones. But it won't remove from the platform the warlord Lt. Gen. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, even though he oversaw the killing of more than 100 people in Sudan. Aarti Shahani
Technology Facebook Removed Nearly 3.4 Billion Fake Accounts In 6 Months Nearly all the phony accounts were caught by artificial intelligence and a boost in human monitoring. CEO Mark Zuckerberg said breaking up the company would make purging abusive accounts harder. Vanessa Romo Amy Held
Technology How Computer-Assisted Telepathy Helps Humans Communicate The next phase of human evolution seems headed toward merging biological bodies with machines, and in the first video of Future You, Elise Hu gets connected to a network and plays a game her thoughts. Elise Hu
Technology Facebook Bans Alex Jones, Louis Farrakhan And Other 'Dangerous' Individuals The social media platform said it was banning the high-profile individuals for engaging in hate. Jones called it an 'authoritarian' move. Matthew S. Schwartz
