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Congressman’s bill would force Trump administration to fulfill pledge to study racial disparities

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Facebook allowed political ads that were scams and malware

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Facebook is (still) letting housing advertisers exclude users by race

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Facebook allowed questionable ads in German election despite warnings

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How Facebook enabled advertisers to reach “Jew haters”

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Despite disavowals, leading tech companies help extremist sites monetize hate

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Facebook’s secret censorship rules protect white men from hate speech but not black children

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Combatants in the information war: How to protect your digital privacy in the era of public shaming

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Unplugging is unreal: Facebook doesn’t tell users everything it really knows about them

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“This is no small thing”: What’s really at stake in the Apple encryption debate

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4 simple ways to radically improve your Internet security

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U.S. companies are cozier with the NSA than previously thought

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Online tracking is getting that much creepier

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Heartbleed’s grim lesson: America’s cybersecurity is a joke

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How the Stasi spied without social media

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