Teens Are Over Face-to-Face Communication, Study Says
Source: Time By KATY STEINMETZ September 10, 2018 When Common Sense surveyed roughly a thousand teenagers about their habits back in 2012, most of them said that their favorite way to […]
Facebook Watch video service launches worldwide
Source: BBC News By Leo Kelion Image copyrightFACEBOOKImage captionFacebook hopes Watch will encourage users to spend longer within its app Facebook’s Watch video-streaming service is rolling out worldwide, just over […]
Facebook bans Myanmar military chief, others to stop hate
Source: Associated Press By VICTORIA MILKO YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Facebook said Monday that it is banning Myanmar’s powerful military chief and 19 other individuals and organizations from its site […]
Twitter will not ban InfoWars conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, despite other tech giants dropping him
Twitter will not ban InfoWars conspiracy theorist Alex Jones Source: BBC News The CEO of Twitter says it will not ban InfoWars or its founder Alex Jones because their accounts […]
Fake news a democratic crisis for UK, MPs warn
Source: BBC News The UK faces a “democratic crisis” with voters being targeted with “pernicious views” and data being manipulated, a parliamentary committee is set to warn. The Digital, Culture, […]
Celebrities Are Losing Millions of Followers as Twitter Slashes Fake Accounts
Source: Time By CASEY QUACKENBUSH July 13, 2018 From former President Barack Obama to Justin Bieber, the internet’s biggest social media influencers lost millions of Twitter followers Thursday as the platform began […]
Facebook ends initiative to provide wireless internet via drones
Source: Al Jazeera News Facebook has cancelled its Project Aquila, a programme to develop drones to deliver high-speed internet to remote areas currently not connected to the internet. According to Facebook, […]
Egypt blocks YouTube over film denigrating prophet Muhammad
Source: The Guardian Egypt’s top administrative court ordered authorities to block video-sharing website YouTube for a month over a film denigrating Islam’s prophet Muhammad. The ruling on Saturday ends a […]
Judge Rules Trump May Not Block Critics on Twitter
Source: The Wall Street Journal ByRebecca Ballhaus May 23, 2018 2:33 p.m. ET WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump may not block critics from reading his Twitter feed, a federal judge ruled on Wednesday, finding that doing so violates their right to free speech. Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald of the Southern District of […]
Kalkaska village president ousted in recall after anti-Muslim Facebook post
Source: MLIVE By Mark Tower mtower@mlive.com KALKASKA, MI — A village president in a small Northern Michigan community who gained national attention in June 2017 for controversial social media posts was […]
How Social Media Is Hurting Your Memory
Source: Time By ANDREW GREGORY Each day, hundreds of millions of people document and share their experiences on social media, from packed parties to the most intimate family moments. Social platforms […]
Facebook accused of introducing extremists to one another through ‘suggested friends’ feature
Source: The Telegraph By Martin Evans, crime correspondent 5 MAY 2018 • 10:13PM Facebook has helped introduce thousands of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) extremists to one another, […]
Twitter being weaponized as 4 million anti-Semitic Tweets posted in 2017, ADL reports
Source: Haaretz Report highlights uptick in anti-Semitic tweets in months when white supremacists held rally in Charlottesville and President Donald Trump announced decision to move U.S. Embassy in Israel to […]
Egypt’s mufti issues fatwa against buying Facebook ‘likes’
Source: Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s top mufti has issued a fatwa, or a religious decree, saying that buying Facebook “likes” is prohibited under Islam because it’s a form of fraud and deception. Grand Mufti Shawki Allam regularly issues all sorts of fatwas, usually in response to questions by […]
‘Social media has poisoned us’: young Britons on why they are unhappy
Source: The Guardian BY Rachel Obordo and Guardian readers From student debt to loneliness, young people in Britain share their reasons for why the happiness of 16 to 25-year-olds is so low Young people have said social media is one of the reasons they’re so unhappy. Photograph: WIN-Initiative/Getty Images Research says that young […]
Facebook data: How it was used by Cambridge Analytica
Source: BBC News Facebook has said it believes that up to 87 million users’ data was improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica. Cambridge Analytica claims its data and research helped Donald […]
French vegan convicted for comments on butcher killed by Islamist militant
Source: Reuters PARIS (Reuters) – A vegan in France who posted a Facebook message offering “zero sympathy” for a butcher killed by an Islamist militant during an attack last week […]
Sri Lanka lifts Facebook ban after anti-Muslim violence ends
Source: Associated Press COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s government on Thursday ended a weeklong ban on social media that was imposed because of concerns that it was being […]
Bali to shush social media for Day of Silence
Source: Associated Press BALI, Indonesia (AP) — Bali’s annual Day of Silence is so sacred that even reaching for a smartphone to send a tweet or upload a selfie to […]
In Sri Lanka, Facebook Contends With Shutdown After Mob Violence
Source: The New York Times By VINDU GOEL, HARI KUMAR and SHEERA FRENKEL MUMBAI — In many countries, Facebook is contending with a darkening reputation as a vehicle for disinformation and false news. The most recent […]