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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

OkCupid Joins Facebook In Experimenting On Users

Comments (0) | christian rudder, emotional manipulation, Facebook, Facebook experiment, federal trade commission, okcupid, online dating, Psychology, psychology experiment, social media, social networking, Technology

OkCupid gets better at making matches by manipulating user activity. (Screenshot)

Ashley Yang
Executive Producer

Whether you like it or not, all social networking sites experiment on users.

Buzz

Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

Google Investigation By FTC Comes To An End

Comments (0) | Anti-Trust, copyright, copyright laws, fair-use, federal trade commission, FTC, Google, Google Investigation, Internet competitors, Internet Search, Media

Google (Creative Commons)

Paige Brettingen
Executive Producer

19 months and 9 million pages of testimony later.

Buzz

Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

Debt Collection Agencies To Be Supervised By Fed

Comments (5) | CFPB, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, consumers union, debt collection, debt collector, Dodd Frank, Dodd-Frank, federal trade commission, financial law, FTC, National, Richard Cordray, Suzanne Martindale

(Creative Commons).

Agnus Dei Farrant
Executive Producer

The CFPB will oversee larger firms in the industry to make sure debt collectors treat consumers fairly.

Buzz

Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

Federal Trade Commission Settles Face-off With Facebook

Comments (0) | Facebook, federal trade commission, FTC, privacy, Technology

(Flickr/Creative Commons)

Catherine Green
Executive Producer

Company agreed to audits for the next two decades.

Buzz

Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

Four Loko Pressured Into Changing Its Label

Comments (1) | Alcohol, alcoholic, caffeinated, caffeine, Drink, drinking, fda, federal trade commission, Food, food and drug administration, four loko, four lokos, FTC, Phusion Projects

Raishad M. Hardnett
Staff Reporter

Four Loko warns its consumers that it contains up to five beers worth of alcohol.

Buzz

Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

Potential FTC Probe Of Facebook Over Online Tracking

Comments (1) | Congress, Facebook, federal trade commission, internet privacy, National, social media, social network

Jenny Chen
Associate News Editor

Congressmen and privacy groups recommend an investigation into Facebook's practices, amidst recent changes to the social network.