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Technology

Algorithm knows when corporate money is pushing memes online

Did that tweet go viral because it was popular - or did it get a boost from corporate backers? An algorithm can tell the difference

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Technology

Microsoft and Facebook plan to lay internet cable under the sea

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Technology

Free speech has met social media, with revolutionary results

Leader

Boris Johnson

Humans

How your Facebook feed will affect your Brexit vote

Insight

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Technology

What your social media profile photo says about your personality

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Technology

One Per Cent

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Six GIFs about things you didn't know about GIFs

Technology

Six GIFs about things you didn't know about GIFs

CultureLab

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Technology

Facebook learns about the world like kids do – only faster

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Technology

A social network built for donating aims to fix slacktivism

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Facebook neural nets and reading of children's books

Technology

Facebook’s AI is learning by reading loads of children’s books

Neural networks developed by Facebook are able to fill in missing words in passages – thanks to a reading list involving many children's classics

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Facebook can map more of Earth in a week than we have in history

Analysis

Technology

Web of lies: Is the internet making a world without truth?

Features

Technology

As internet giants brush up against regulation, who’s using who?

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Humans

Did Facebook help Cruz beat Trump in crucial Iowa vote?

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