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Science & Technology
How social media has changed society
Politics with Amy Walter: The Role of Political Disinformation in the Race for the White House
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Politics with Amy Walter: Are Democrats Breaking Up with Big Tech?
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Facebook Promises To Combat Divisiveness and Improve Privacy. Again.
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Is Facebook Too Big? Amid Repeat Offenses, Global Regulators Suggest Breaking Up the Social Media Giant
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100 Days: What is Facebook’s Plan for the 2018 Midterms?
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Poverty Touches Not Just Pocketbooks, but Mental Health
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Mark Zuckerberg Grilled Before Congress; Paul Ryan Retires from House
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Celebrating ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ And Whales. April 6, 2018, Part 1
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Sacramento Demands Answers After Police Shoot Unarmed Black Man
Full Episode
Social media
Global Politics
Confronting the new geopolitics of ‘net-states’
A Rohingya refugee helps children cross the mud after crossing the Naf River at the Bangladesh-Myanmar border.
Conflict
In Myanmar, fake news spread on Facebook stokes ethnic violence
White nationalists carry torches on the grounds of the University of Virginia, on the eve of a planned Unite The Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, US August 11, 2017. Picture taken August 11, 2017.
Culture
How often have you dealt with racism? Her friends’ answers surprised her.
Angry Town Hall Meetings, Sex Offender Rights, Seeking Out the KKK
Full Episode
The Friends of Donald Trump in Lebanon Facebook page gets comments, such as: "Go Mr. President God bless you" and "We need someone like you [in Lebanon] to clean up our country."
Global Politics
Trump fans in Lebanon want to ‘make the Middle East great again’
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg
Culture
What’s the role of social media in the news media?
UNC professor Zeynep Tufekci says Facebook is offering the news equivalent of Halloween candy.
Media
How to stop Facebook when its newsfeed ‘serves Halloween candy for breakfast, lunch and dinner’
Sunset from the rebel-held section of Aleppo, which has been under siege for more than a year.
Culture
Only good memories of Aleppo allowed on this Facebook page
Media
Norway is angry at Facebook for censoring an iconic Vietnam War photo
Facebook
Technology
Reasons to hate Facebook
Gloria Steinem, Facebook Censorship, The Politics of Coal Country
Full Episode
Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying looks on as he meets journalists in Hong Kong.
Technology
Facebook’s new ‘angry’ emoji has become a powerful weapon for Hong Kong activists
Nicolás Maduro
Global Politics
Venezuela’s president finally discovers Facebook, constituents flood his profile
Steve Puget, 18, started a Facebook page to help people in Paris find missing friends and relatives after the attacks. In some cases, he had to break the news that a loved one had been killed.
Global Politics
From his bedroom hundreds of miles away, this teenager helped find the missing of Paris
This hand-drawn diagram for the route from Turkey to Germany was recently posted on the Facebook page of one of Abdul-Ahad's Kurdish friends in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq.
Justice
Make an undocumented journey to Europe in 20 basic steps
A picture of the slain journalists at a memorial outside of WDBJ7
Media
How do you talk about a gunman who wants to go viral (and knows how)?
Organizers initiated the feline festivities with -- what else -- a Facebook event.
Global Politics
Watch out, Donald Trump: Italians dealt differently with an anti-immigrant politican. They used cats — lots of cats.
Culture
One woman challenges perceptions of Somalia one Instagram post at a time
My memorials
Culture
Social media is transforming the way we view death and grieving
Satellite dishes at GCHQ's outpost at Bude, close to where trans-Atlantic fiber-optic cables come ashore in Cornwall, southwest England.
Justice
Why British intelligence wants your Facebook data
Environment
Facebook saved these bears from a life in captivity
Environment
Facebook saved these bears from a life in captivity
Health & Medicine
Should we be worried about antibiotic resistance?