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A notice on the website of Backpage.com said it had been seized by multiple federal agencies. The site was at the center of a debate over amending a bedrock internet law. Powered by WPeMatico

After years of media reports and complaints, Instagram recently moved to restrict hashtags related to opioids and deleted some accounts. Powered by WPeMatico

The social network will now require ads about political issues, not just elections, to be verified. It will also begin vetting Pages with large numbers of followers. Powered by WPeMatico

Kai-Fu Lee, head of the investment firm Sinovation Ventures, is training Chinese professors to teach artificial-intelligence techniques. Powered by WPeMatico

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has finally agreed to appear before Congress—which means he might finally get at the real issue behind Facebook’s woes. Powered by WPeMatico

A Google team created an app that asks users in India and elsewhere to identify household objects and public places, to boost the accuracy of its image-recognition services. Powered by WPeMatico

San Bruno police identified the attacker as Nasim Najafi Aghdam, a woman in her late thirties from San Diego. Powered by WPeMatico

Racebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the fixes to Facebook’s data-sharing woes will be a “multi-year” process. Powered by WPeMatico

Google, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Snap, and MailChimp have all decided to shut out cryptocurrency advertising, but some blockchain enthusiasts say that might not be such a bad thing. Powered by WPeMatico

Content Marketing Networks, like Revcontent, draw eyeballs for ads with outrageous words and images. But post #MeToo, that strategy might be bad for business. Powered by WPeMatico