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The actress Alyssa Milano urged people to acknowledge on social media if they had experienced sexual harassment or assault. Credit Randy Shropshire/Getty Images


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Facebook Is Ubiquitous. But Will It Be Trusted?

Facebook Is Ubiquitous. But Will It Be Trusted?

This has been the year of Facebook. Its stock price has increased by around 50 percent as it continues to assert its dominance in user activity and digital ad revenue. It undercut one of the companies trying to catch up with it, Snap, by adding a similar feature,...
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Students practice their Instagram shots at a June event at the Culinary Institute of America campus in Hyde Park, NY. The institute is developing new courses in food photography and styling. Credit Phil Mansfield


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Mark Zuckerberg, shown in Spain last year, defended his company this week from President Trump’s assertion that “Facebook was always anti-Trump.” Credit Pau Barrena/Bloomberg


Zuckerberg’s Preposterous Defense of Facebook

Zuckerberg’s Preposterous Defense of Facebook

Responding to President Trump’s tweet this week that “Facebook was always anti-Trump,” Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Facebook, defended the company by noting that Mr. Trump’s opponents also criticize it — as having aided Mr. Trump. If everyone is upset with...
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The “Facebook”-logo is pictured on the sidelines of a press preview of the so-called “Facebook Innovation Hub” in Berlin on February 24, 2016. TOBIAS SCHWARZ AFP/Getty Images


Facebook Marks the End of Social Media’s Wild West

Facebook Marks the End of Social Media’s Wild West

The news that Facebook will turn over details of Russian ad buys to Congress recalls a column written by my colleague Eli Lake early year. He wrote that in forcing National Security Adviser Michael Flynn to resign, President Donald Trump “caved in to his...