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Think FaceApp Is Horrifying? Wait Till You Hear About Facebook

The idea that FaceApp is in some way exceptionally bad threatens to obscure the real stage: All apps deserve this level of scrutiny.
The idea that FaceApp is somehow exceptionally dangerous threatens to obscure the real point: All apps deserve this level of scrutiny.

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Author: Wired

Wired has recently written 9 articles on similar topics including :
  1. "Wellness brands Hims and Hers violate Facebook policies by offering prescription drugs in ads. The ads also don't disclose side effects, as required by the FDA". (July 1, 2019)
  2. "The Central Asian country’s government has repeatedly threatened to monitor its citizens’ internet activities. Google and Mozilla aren’t having it". (August 21, 2019)
  3. "Tim Wu, who coined the phrase "net neutrality," spoke with WIRED Editor-in-Chief Nicholas Thompson at the Aspen Ideas Festival". (July 5, 2019)
  4. "Facebook’s latest report lays out the sheer scale of its battle against fake accounts, spam, and other abuses". (May 24, 2019)
  5. "The executive, in announcing his departure, was the last of the Oculus founders still at the company". (August 13, 2019)
  6. "But lawmakers appear too divided still to do anything meaningful about it". (July 19, 2019)
  7. "For the past four years, Facebook has quietly used a homegrown tool called Zoncolan to find bugs in its massive codebase". (August 17, 2019)
  8. "The social network wants to enable easy, inexpensive global commerce, sure. But its ultimate goals are a little more … geopolitical". (June 26, 2019)
  9. "Ad trackers are out of control. Use a browser that reins them in". (June 16, 2019)
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