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• Channel 4 News defends Facebook live stream of battle for Mosul

  18-10-2016 19:12 via theguardian.com
  
  Broadcasters including Al-Jazeera accused of using war as entertainment and criticised over presence of emojis on their feeds
  Channel 4 News has defended its decision to live stream a conflict for the first time amid concerns over the dangers of watching the battle for Mosul on a Facebook live feed.The publicly owned broadcaster joined other TV stations including Al-Jazeera and Rudaw, a Kurdish news agency, to live stream the advance of Iraqi troops and Kurdish fighters into Mosul, Islamic State
  
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• No, Facebook isn't going to make all your private photos public tomorrow

  18-10-2016 15:51 via theguardian.com
  
  A well-worn hoax status post is doing the rounds on social media again – but do you know what Facebook really can do with your pictures?A hoax Facebook status threatening that the company is about to reveal all of your private photos and messages has resurfaced again. The status message, and subsequent variations of it, date back to at least June 2012, and periodically gain traction. There’s absolutely no substance to them.“Deadline tomorrow !!! Everything you’ve ever pos
  
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• Here’s a conversation starter: why is Facebook telling everyone everything I do?

  18-10-2016 14:32 via theguardian.com
  
  The new Conversation Topics feature on the Facebook Messenger app tells you what your friends have been doing, what they like and what you could talk to them aboutName: Conversation Topics.Age: Brand new.Facebook have some awesome people working on @messenger. It showed @trixieavis 'conversation topics inc what I'm listening to. pic.twitter.com/2NEcFp8A9r Continue reading...
  
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