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Trolls made photos of Bianca Devins' death go viral on Instagram. Now, the teen's family wants answers. huffp.st/Ksx7gAV

Without money and resources, it's hard to fill the diversity gap in tech, especially for women of color. huffp.st/ziJL6AL

The heads of Facebook-owned WhatsApp and Messenger services told Barr and his U.K. and Australian counterparts that Facebook is moving forward with plans to enable end-to-end encryption on all of its messaging services. huffp.st/kOItrUx

Twitter said this week it would pause plans to purge inactive accounts after some users worried about memorialized accounts of people who had died. huffp.st/LLufQ5x

Twitter is pausing its plan to erase inactive accounts after concerns emerged over the pages of deceased users. huffp.st/bxd3LAI

In response to Instagram's opaque standards for "inappropriate" content, women have started switching their gender to male on the app — and they've noticed a change in how their posts are promoted. huffp.st/KGvYRPM

Amazon will challenge a $10 billion Pentagon contract awarded to Microsoft, saying the process was tainted by "political influence." huffp.st/Ka7C3n9

Facebook's biannual transparency report tells how it's fighting fake news and child sexual exploitation. huffp.st/mG0kahw

Apple Inc co-founder Steve Wozniak joined in the online debate over accusations of gender discrimination by the algorithm behind the iPhone maker’s credit card, fueling scrutiny of the newly launched Apple Card. huffp.st/fRZMgcb

A man said the Apple Card offered him a credit limit 20 times greater than it gave to his wife, even though she has a higher credit score. Now a NY regulator said it will investigate. huffp.st/cY2ssPI

The Pentagon awarded Microsoft a $10 billion cloud computing contract, snubbing early front-runner Amazon, huffp.st/wErcOXn

A Democratic lawmaker who was at Harvard with Mark Zuckerberg slammed the Facebook co-founder's revisionist history of the social media giant. huffp.st/l0nBv82

With 8chan now inaccessible, the message board’s hordes of displaced hatemongers are searching for a new place to share vile content. huffp.st/gSnqNbC

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said Facebook was the "new cigarettes" and called for the tech giant to be broken up. huffp.st/QP2YNpf

One person who watched confidence-building videos from a drag queen ended up in an echo chamber of homophobic rants. huffp.st/uun4lwp

Transfixed Fortnite fans watched black hole for hours, wondering if anything else was going to happen. huffp.st/TOA77RQ

The tech company said the app violated its rules because it was used to ambush police and by criminals who used it to victimize residents in areas with no law enforcement. huffp.st/fw2QNZj

Gaming giant Blizzard said pro gamer Blitzchung violated competition rules when he said, "Liberate Hong Kong!" in a post-game interview. huffp.st/r0LNCdh

YouTube banned supremacist content in June, but such content is still rampant on the site. Here's the latest example. huffp.st/8ZcAnif

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg held a livestreamed Q&A with employees in which he addressed leaked remarks he made in July about Sen. Elizabeth Warren as well as requests for the company to not encrypt its messaging platforms. huffp.st/sWmNIx0