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Copenhage -
A Danish man whose Facebook comments appeared to back the gunman behind the deadly Copenhagen attacks will not face charges of condoning terrorism, a prosecutor said Thursday.
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Small to medium-sized business owners know how difficult and expensive it can be to advertise. However, with social media giants such as Facebook, this super platform can be the most viable and popular way for most to reach their targeted audience.
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Washington -
The Central Intelligence Agency is seeking to expand its cyber espionage capabilities so it can increase surveillance of social media sites including Facebook and Twitter.
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Boston -
So lately, tongues have been wagging due to a recent story of an elderly priest who died and had a conversation with God, and a female God at that.
The story has been dancing around on Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit.
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Paid advertising on Facebook has grown a great deal over the past several years, to the point where it’s becoming a major rival to pay-per-click Google ads.
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Bigelow -
Arkansas Senator Jason Rapert has the solution for putting ISIL in its place: Nuke the jihad out of them!
Rapert fired off this salvo on his Facebook page by trotting out the idea that "God is love."
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The South Carolina Department of Corrections (SCDC) is punishing inmates with decades of solitary confinement—a recognized form of psychological torture—for Facebook posts.
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Facebook's policy of only allowing accounts with "authentic" names is resulting in Native American users being blocked from using their real names.
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Menlo Park -
Facebook has introduced a new feature that allows users to choose a 'digital heir' to manage parts of their accounts after they die.
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Facebook’s strategy to lure YouTube stars over to create original video content for its platform is now well underway, CMO Today says.
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San Francisco -
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his physician wife have donated $75 million to pay for equipment at San Francisco's largest public hospital, which is being rebuilt.
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Even as the Patriots and Seahawks fought out the incredible battle to take the Lombardi trophy, a second contest was going on in social media that had even more at stake.
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Vancouver -
An encounter with northern resident orcas has given an amateur videographer a gift he will never forget.
He was able to capture rare footage of the strikingly marked marine mammals rubbing themselves on beach stones in B.C.'s Discovery Islands.
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Actor and model Nick Bateman has a digital milestone to celebrate. He has surpassed two million fans on his Facebook page.
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France is hoping to make internet companies such as Google and Facebook accountable for social media posts promoting terrorism, Bloomberg reports.
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The Justice Department reached a $134,000 settlement with a New York woman after the Drug Enforcement Administration used her information to set up a fake Facebook profile to track other suspects.
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Phoenix -
Worldwide, thousands of dollars in donations have flooded in to help pay for the care of newborn quadruplets whose mother died after giving birth to them, according to a fund raising website set up in the woman's name.
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A recent study from Stanford University and the University of Cambridge has found that a computer with data from a person's Facebook “likes” was better able to predict that individual's personality than most of their friends and family.
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Estanzuela -
Improved Internet access can be a force for peace, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said during a trip to Colombia to promote his project to boost web availability for two-thirds of the world not yet connected.The project "Internet.
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Menlo Park -
Social media giant Facebook announced Tuesday that it will begin including missing child advisories, known in the United States as Amber Alerts, in users' news feeds.
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New statistics released by Facebook demonstrate the rapid growth of video sharing on the social network—and underscore the company's ambitions to be a serious rival to YouTube in the video space.
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Halifax -
Anonymous is taking action against Dalhousie University and demanding that the school take steps to expel members of a misogynistic Facebook group called the 2015 DDS Gentlemen's Club.
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Halifax -
Several male dentistry students have been partially suspended almost a month after women protested about the violent, misogynistic comments on the Facebook page "Class of DDS 2015 Gentlemen."
A statement regarding the suspensions was released Monday
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2015 will be an interesting year for politics. Whether you love it or hate it, social media is completely changing the landscape of voter participation, one Facebook post at a time.
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Former Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin triggered a social media firestorm after she posted Facebook photos of her son using the family dog as a step stool.
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Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has decided to let Facebook users decide what his 2015 resolutions should be, and he put up a public post asking for ideas on his next "personal challenge."
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Have you ever tried to track down an old Facebook conversation, only to send up lost in your own timeline? What if you could find it by simply typing in a few keywords from the relevant status updates?
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Seminole -
A Florida woman is in jail for reportedly slapping an elderly person for rejecting a social media request on the Internet.
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With Facebook revealing during the company's Q and A that they are currently developing new buttons, the question of whether Facebook will ever introduce the highly controversial and requested dislike button comes to the forefront.
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For the first time ever, Facebook Page owners uploaded more videos directly to Facebook than they did via sharing from YouTube videos, according to new data from Socialbakers, a company that tracks social media data.
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The California Dept. of Business Oversight conducted a fairness hearing on July 15, 2014, to ensure that the purchase of Oculus VR by Facebook was "fair, just and equitable." "This was done to help protect the shareholders of Oculus since the sale at just over $3.9 million dollars involved a transaction of both cash and Facebook stocks," said CA Dept. of Business Oversight communications director, Mark Leyes.
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AIDS ‘14 conference and backpacking in Australia first, then Malaysia revisited. Jumpa lagi!” “Jumpa lagi” is a Malay phrase meaning “So long” or “See you later.” Facebook
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