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Who's up, down, in and out — your morning tipsheet on Florida politics.

Does Facebook know you better than your spouse? Alexander Danver Photo: Reuters It’s potentially more interesting to consider what the predictions mean, and how they are made. Past research has found that by looking at what you’ve liked on Facebook, machine learning algorithms can predict your personality traits better than your own friends, family, and spouse can. Last week, I covered a recent paper by Michal Kosinski on predicting politics from social media photos, which is a result that ...

Earlier this week, Facebook decided to block the ability to share news articles for people in Australia. This is in retaliation for Australia’s proposed law to require Facebook and other tech platforms to pay news sources when articles are shared on their platform. The law is an attempt to bring support to journalists and news sites since posting content on Facebook gives Facebook more of the profits and traffic than the original source might get.  So now Australian people can’t post news...