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Your social media data is out there, just waiting to be leaked

16 May 2018

So much social media data has been siphoned off and stored in the name of research that questions over its security were only a matter of time, says Paul Marks
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Technology firms must develop new ways to jam Russia's fake news

20 February 2018

The FBI has revealed the lengths Russia's fake news operators will go to – now the likes of Facebook and Twitter must come up with a fix, says Paul Marks

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