Essentially, the study concludes that younger people are more likely to think they may have unintentionally shared false or misleading information—often driven by the pressure to share emotional content quickly. However, they are also more adept at using advanced fact-checking …

How Trump changed Facebook
At one point in time, Facebook’s relationship with politicians was relatively uncontroversial. But after the 2016 US elections, everything changed. Early in the campaign, then-presidential candidate Donald Trump tested the limits of Facebook’s rules against hateful speech, at the same …

Google Fiber was stalled for years but now says it’ll expand to 5 new states
Getty Images | Kalief Browder reader comments 124 with 91 posters participating Share this story Google Fiber says it plans to expand its fiber-to-the-home Internet service to several new states for the first time since it announced a pause in …

Make it Big Podcast: Exploring Payment Trends and Buy Now, Pay Later with Sezzle
Make it Big Podcast: Exploring Payment Trends and Buy Now, Pay Later with Sezzle Get The Print Version Tired of scrolling? Download a PDF version for easier offline reading and sharing with coworkers.Download PDF Add your info below to have …

Most Popular Shopify Store Management Apps
For firms, the benefits of online commerce are growing. With the help of systems for building online stores like Magento 2, Shopify, and others, companies are becoming digital. The majority of the time, they don’t provide all the features needed …

Phishers who breached Twilio and fooled Cloudflare could easily get you, too
Getty Images reader comments 23 with 21 posters participating Share this story At least two security-sensitive companies—Twilio and Cloudflare—were targeted in a phishing attack by an advanced threat actor who had possession of home phone numbers of not just employees …

Transform Your Ecommerce Site with a User-Centric Approach
At the heart of the web lies one important thing that it couldn’t run without: the user. After all, what is all this infrastructure and information for, if not for the user? As intuitive as it may seem, it hasn’t …

The Download: fixing social media, and US monkeypox vaccines
We all want to be able to speak our minds online—to be heard by our friends and talk (back) to our opponents. At the same time, we don’t want to be exposed to speech that is inappropriate or crosses a …

How Facebook helped Axios sell for $500 million
Axios is an against-the-grain success story: a five-year-old media startup, backed by venture capital, that succeeded journalistically and financially. Which is why it has been able to sell itself for more than $500 million to Cox Enterprises. But there’s something …