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Facebook faces Congress: 5 key takeaways from Mark Zuckerberg’s hearing

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg spent hours in the hot seat Tuesday, answering questions from a joint hearing of the U.S.… Read More

Facebook is forming a research commission to study how social media impacts elections

Facebook is launching an academic initiative to research the impact of social media on democracy as part of the company’s… Read More

Facebook rolls out new rules for ads promoting politically-charged issues

Facebook is introducing stricter rules for advertisers promoting hot-button issues. Starting today, advertisers who want to buy politically-charged ads will need… Read More

Twitter suspends 1.2 million accounts for posting terrorist content

Twitter took down more than 1.2 million accounts for tweeting terrorism-related content between 2015-2017, the company announced in its biannual transparency… Read More

Zuckerberg in 2017: People share on Facebook because they trust ‘privacy is going to be protected’

When Mark Zuckerberg sat down to record an episode of Freakonomics Radio’s “Secret Life of CEOs” last summer, he couldn’t… Read More

#WakandaForever! Record-breaking ‘Black Panther’ is also the most-tweeted about film of all time

The superhero mega-hit “Black Panther” isn’t just leaving its mark on the box office record books. The film is hashtagging… Read More

FEC asks CEOs of Facebook, Alphabet, and Twitter to testify on new political ad rules

Washington, D.C. is extending an invitation to Silicon Valley. The Federal Elections Commission has asked the CEOs of Facebook, Alphabet,… Read More

Facebook stock plunges amid reports of Trump campaign consultants using unauthorized data from 50M users

Facebook shares were down more than 7 percent Monday in the wake of damaging reports that Republican campaign operatives obtained… Read More

Social media analytics company Dataminr opens stealthy Seattle office

Dataminr, a New York company that uses machine learning and artificial intelligence to scrape social media and quickly spot breaking… Read More

Why ‘Super Smash Bros.’ on the Nintendo Switch is a big deal

Every month or two, Nintendo puts out the Direct, a self-produced video broadcast that details its upcoming releases and projects.… Read More

Get your own Kyle! Seattle startup vet creatively asks for help in finding his next adventure

In search of his next work challenge and life adventure, Kyle Kesterson has decided that there really should be no… Read More

Facebook launches local news section in Olympia, Wash., and 5 other cities

Facebook announced two updates designed to connect users with more trusted local news Monday. The first is a new section… Read More

Mark Zuckerberg makes fixing Facebook’s most controversial problems his ‘personal challenge’ for 2018

Facebook’s image suffered some serious blows in 2017. So rather than wear a tie everyday or learn a complex foreign… Read More

30 years after his iconic photos captured the rise of grunge, Charles Peterson turns his eye to Instagram

One of the biggest shifts in American music and culture, and arguably in a city’s identity, happened in Seattle before… Read More

Facebook cracks down on posts that bait users into liking and sharing content

If you’re tired of seeing posts ordering you to “like if you’re not you before your morning coffee” or “tag… Read More

Sprout Social acquires Seattle social media analytics startup Simply Measured

Sprout Social has acquired Simply Measured, a Seattle startup that helps brands get deeper insights into their social media marketing… Read More

Can AI help prevent suicide? Facebook hopes to better identify posts and get aid to users in need

Facebook already relies on the connections between people to help identify and prevent its users from harming themselves. The social… Read More

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Lessons from the Bushmen: How this tech-free society could foreshadow our technological future

Many people nowadays are concerned about the way technology is changing their lives. From worries about artificial intelligence taking jobs,… Read More

Deadline 2020: Regulators need to catch up to social media propaganda by the next big election

Social media’s greatest strength and weakness is the egalitarianism that defines it. Facebook and Twitter have given a voice to… Read More

Exclusive: Bots spread propaganda to influence high-stakes Washington state race, researchers say

Update: Manka Dhingra was ahead with 55 percent of the vote in early election results released Tuesday at 8 p.m. Bots… Read More

Twitter rolls out 280-character limit with confidence that brevity will still be preferred by most

OK, let’s keep this short. That’s always been the point, right? Twitter on Tuesday announced that its limited test allowing… Read More

Move fast and fix things: Why the social web needs to start thinking differently about its products

The people and companies who created social media told us it would be a democratizing force that would bring the… Read More

Twitter adds safeguards after Trump account deactivated; report says employee was contractor

A day after President Trump’s Twitter account was deactivated by a rogue employee on that person’s last day of work,… Read More

Departing Twitter employee goes rogue, deactivates Donald Trump’s account for 11 (joyous) minutes

Fulfilling the fantasy of anyone who has ever wished they could just pull the plug on President Donald Trump’s Twitter… Read More

Express yourself! Twitter doubling character count from 140 to 280 for some users

Knowing that Twitter limits users to 140-character posts has always been equal parts joy and frustration: Joy in knowing that… Read More

Could Twitter ban Trump for violating its terms of service? Company forced to explain why it hasn’t

President Trump had a busy weekend on Twitter, as usual. No real surprise there, but the language in at least… Read More

Social media AI startup Meshfire is closing, founders aim to find a new home for the technology

Meshfire, an artificial intelligence-backed social media management company based in Kirkland, Wash., will shut down Sept. 30. Meshfire CEO Eli Israel… Read More

Man wearing swastika armband in Seattle gets punched out after his image spread on social media

A man wearing a red swastika armband on a bus in Seattle on Sunday became the focus of posts on Twitter… Read More

12th Man can dress up Blue Friday in Seattle with a Seahawks helmet filter on Snapchat

Blue Friday in Seattle usually means you or your co-workers are wearing Seattle Seahawks jerseys or some such to work… Read More

Tech investor Nick Hanauer goes off on Twitter, rips Trump supporters and climate-change deniers

Perhaps all that ash in the air around Seattle on Tuesday was coming from the fire burning inside Nick Hanauer.… Read More