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Iranian hackers attack Telegram to find 15 million accounts

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Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 3.8.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | privacy, texting
Summary | Iranian hackers got access to Telegram accounts and got the details of 15 million Iranian users.
Image Description | Telegram logo, photograph of military men running, photograph of two Muslim women taking a selfie, screenshot of a series of tweets
Image Tags | female(s), logo, male(s), selfie, smartphone, Twitter

Facebook reportedly testing new tool to combat fake news

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Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 6.12.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | Facebook, fake news, threat
Summary | Facebook is apparently looking into ways to combat fake news spreading on their platform. They have had to face much criticism because of this. Users have started getting little survey questions after clicking on news media links posted on Facebook asking them to evaluate how trustworthy the article is. It is not known what Facebook will do with the results of this poll.
Image Description | Getty image of the Facebook logo on various screens and a tweet.
Image Tags | Facebook, logo, male(s), Twitter

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