Social media

In-depth Reports 08/23/22, 08:00

On the night of August 18, a tweet posted on social media by the user named "Bian Xiang" was shared thousands of times in a few hours. It accused Chinese tech giant Baidu of invading user privacy by using the Baidu manual network disk reviewer to open the contents of the user's ...

Corruption 07/08/22, 17:08

Recently, China's biggest data leak has continuously raised public concerns inside and outside the country. The Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau database was allegedly leaked on a large scale, involving the personal information of one billion Chinese citizens. Some analysts have suggested that the data leak may be related to ...

Tech 04/04/22, 14:47

Elon Musk, has just acquired a nearly 10% stake in Twitter, worth $3 billion, shortly after questioning the social network's handling of free speech. On Monday, April 4, it became known that Tesla's CEO, a fervent generator of controversial tweets, acquired 9.2% of Twitter, thus becoming the largest shareholder of the ...

California 03/15/22, 22:18

Proposed bipartisan legislation will penalize major technology companies for turning minors into compulsive online networkers. California state assemblyman Rep. Jordan Cunningham (R-35 Calif.) and assemblywoman Buffy Wicks (D-15 Calif.) recently introduced Assembly Bill 2408 to hold tech giants responsible for child social media addiction. The bill, also known as the Social Media ...

In-depth Reports 03/05/22, 09:33

Dancing could be described as a series of movements used to express feelings, sensations or ideas. Virtually all known human cultures anywhere on the planet have left records of the practice of some kind of dance.  The most primitive societies generally associated their dances to the request of good harvests to ...

Tech 01/02/22, 16:47

According to The Washington Post, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is harvesting masses of data from social media such as Twitter and Facebook to equip its government agencies, military and police with information on Western targets. The Post made such a conclusion on China's mining of Western social media after it ...

U.S. 12/07/21, 00:45

On the same day that Republican Rep. Devin Nunes announced that at the end of the year he will leave his post as a lawmaker in the House of Representatives for a 'great job offer' that he 'couldn't turn down,' former President Trump's social media Truth confirmed that Nunes will ...

United Kingdom 11/19/21, 20:27

Conservative politician Nadine Dorries, who recently took up her position as UK Culture Secretary, accused the left of 'hijacking' social media and says people dare not speak out for fear of being "cancelled". On Tuesday, Nov. 16, during her first television interview since taking over as Secretary of State for Digital, ...

United Kingdom 11/01/21, 16:02

The UK government has introduced new legislation to control the content on social networks. It will penalize users who post harmful content with imprisonment, and platforms that fail to censor their users with fines of up to $25 million. The Online Safety Bill was designed to combat 'hate' on the Internet ...

Tech 10/28/21, 16:13

A social media influencer warned Facebook users should beware of a silent, user data-tracking feature in the app. Mauricio Modestin Jr., who is also known as skillsoverpolitic, exposed an "Off-Facebook activity" feature that automatically shares information with the social media giant unless individuals turn it off. "Facebook is tracking every app that ...

China 10/15/21, 14:55

LinkedIn announced on Thursday, Oct. 14, that it would turn off its networking platform in China this year, saying it is “facing a significantly more challenging operating environment and greater compliance requirements” in the country. In an announcement posted on its official blog, LinkedIn clarified that it decided to launch a ...

U.S. 10/14/21, 15:11

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) has puzzled Twitter and the platform’s users with claims that her account was hacked and erased, but the social media company has disavowed her claims. In a tweet on Tues. Oct. 12, Waters said she knew who had hacked her account, warning that she “will take care” ...

World 10/09/21, 05:41

Facebook and its family of apps, including Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger, went down for many users on Friday, Oct. 8, marking their second outage in a week. Web monitoring group DownDetector showed that nearly 3,000 people reported outages on Facebook and more than 33,000 people reported the issues with Instagram. Facebook Messenger was also affected, with ...

U.S. 10/05/21, 19:53

Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg lost more than $6 billion in his personal assets in some hours after the company's shares tumbled on Monday, Oct. 4, following a widespread outage of Facebook along with its Instagram and WhatsApp platforms. A selloff drove the social media giant's shares down 4.9% on ...

U.S. 09/09/21, 16:02

The traditional Central Intelligence Agency, the CIA, is now boosting its image through social media in an attempt to soften aspects that have generated harsh criticism in the past.  Its team has at least a dozen staffers tasked with reaching out to the public and achieving a significant increase in "like" ...

U.S. 07/01/21, 18:53

Former advisor to ex-President Donald Trump, Jason Miller, has launched a new social networking platform to declare "independence" from big tech and focus on free speech, according to The Western Journal. GETTR will officially launch on Sunday, July 4 at 10:00 a.m., but the platform is already available in app stores ...

Tech 06/23/21, 01:30

A Californian social media giant will be directly liable for content posted to its online platform in India. Indian authorities have stripped Twitter Inc. of its legal intermediary status, which prevented the San Francisco-headquartered company from being sued for hosting certain third-party text, images, and videos. Uttar Pradesh Police accuses the business ...

U.S. 05/19/21, 02:25

Multiple social media platforms went into overdrive after a Dutchman posted a photo of his daughter, who oddly seemed to be half-submerged in a cobblestone pavement. "My daughter, where is the rest of her?" Tim Kietzmann said on Reddit. "Ohh I see, do you?" The image shows a little girl wearing a pink ...

U.S. 05/07/21, 06:15

According to The New York Post, an account taken down from Twitter for claiming to belong to Donald Trump's newly launched messaging site was not developed by the former president's team. Shortly after the former president introduced his own social site, "From the Desk of Donald J. Trump," which the president ...

U.S. 05/05/21, 19:18

Former President Donald Trump launched his own communication platform, enabling him to speak directly to his followers.  This platform has begun posting messages from the former president. Trump started the platform after months of being blocked by popular social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook over the claims he incited the ...