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Snooping on Foreigners’ Facebook Feeds Is Ineffective and Creepy

Faiza Patel and Harsha Panduranga

June 14, 2019

People waiting in line outside the U.S. embassy in Beijing, China on July 26, 2018

One Day, All of This Will Be Embarrassing

June 11, 2019

Man taking a photo of a group with a smartphone

Facebook’s Dystopian Definition of ‘Fake’

May 28, 2019

Nancy Pelosi reflected in a teleprompter in 2007

Social Media Are Ruining Political Discourse

Jay David Bolter

May 19, 2019

Bernie Sanders supporters look down at their phones during a rally.

The Groups Bringing Forum Culture to Facebook

May 17, 2019

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Breaking Up Facebook Isn’t Enough

May 9, 2019

How I Tried to Defy the Facebook Algorithm

June 2019 Issue

What Facebook Could Have Been

May 7, 2019

The Atlantic Daily: Facebook and Instagram Crack Down on (Some) Extremists

Saahil Desai and Shan Wang

May 2, 2019

Instagram and Facebook Ban Far-Right Extremists

May 2, 2019

Laura Loomer, Louis Farrakhan, Alex Jones, and Milo Yiannopoulos

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