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Politics chat on Reddit reads like it was written by 6-year-olds

You’re not imagining it: after 2016, the sophistication and civility of political discourse on sites like Reddit dropped from secondary school reading levels to barely literate

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Facebook can make your profile pic wink and scowl

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Your data is too valuable and sensitive to dish out for free

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Humans

How YouTube Kids can solve its Peppa Pig cannibalism problem

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Three competing visions of our future communities

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Health

Is modern life making today's teenagers more depressed?

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Twitter is tightening its rules around online sexual harassment

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Who can you trust? How tech is reshaping what we believe

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Hoovering up immigrants' social media data won't make US safer

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Facebook allowed adverts to be targeted at 'Jew haters'

Facebook's ad-placing software allowed an investigative news site to target advertising at users who declared an interest in anti-Semitic topics

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Facebook AI learns human reactions after watching hours of Skype

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Online hate victims must speak out if the law is to stop the mob

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The Darkening Web: Misinformation is the strongest cyberweapon

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Life

I survived a tsunami of online hate and now fight to help others

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