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Could Facebook posts skew your life? It's already happening

An insurance firm has pulled plans to set premiums based on customers' Facebook activity, but the basic idea is not going away, says Aviva Rutkin

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Does a tweet designed to trigger seizures count as assault?

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Virtual reality: No one is actually buying 2016's hottest tech

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Living a perfect Facebook life isn't worth the real-world stress

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AI can join the fight back against the post-truth world

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Extremists are turning Twitter and Facebook into theatres of war

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How to profit from your data and beat Facebook at its own game

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Instagram posts can reveal depression before doctors diagnose it

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Do we need to rein in Facebook and Google's power?

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AI reads your tweets and spots when you’re being sarcastic

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AI reads your tweets and spots when you’re being sarcastic

From advertisers to intelligence agencies, many organisations are interested in tracking our opinions online. Computers that learn to spot sarcasm will make this even easier

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What Donald Trump has said about science – and why he’s wrong

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Troll hunters: the Twitterbots that fight against online abuse

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Trick or tweet, or both? How social media is messing up politics

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Beware the Brexit bots: The Twitter spam out to swing your vote

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