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After more than half of the US states have banned TikTok on government owned devices, the European Commission has also banned the app. Eurocrats were requested to delete the Chinese app via email on Thursday and they have time to…
Meta will introduce a paid verification for its platforms Facebook and Instagram. The blue tick will be available starting this week in Australia and New Zealand, and in “more countries soon.” The new subscription service is meant to protect against…
Twitter announced it will increase the character limit in a tweet, from 280 to 4,000. The initial limit of a post was 140 characters and doubled in 2017 to the current maximum of 280 characters. Starting Wednesday, Twitter users who…
YouTube Shorts, the feature on the video sharing platform YouTube that allows users to create and share short, 15-seconds or less, videos using a smartphone camera and editing tools built into the app, is monetised starting 1st of February. Alphabet…
On January 7, 2021, Facebook announced that former President Donald Trump’s account would be suspended indefinitely following the storming of the US Capitol by his supporters. Today, Meta the parent company announced his Facebook and Instagram accounts will be reinstated…
This week, at least 25 states have banned TikTok on government devices over security concerns. As per reports some states have extended the ban to other Chinese-owned apps and platforms like Alibaba, Huawei Technologies, Weibo and WeChat. FBI warned back…
Andrew Tate was arrested last night on suspicion of human trafficking, rape, and forming an organised crime group, in Romania, where he lately lived with his brother Tristan, who has also been arrested. Romanian authorities have carried out a raid…
Twitter owner Elon Musk launched a poll over the weekend asking his followers whether he should resign as the company’s CEO. 57.5% of voters, representing more than 10 million people, answered “yes”, he should step down. Following the poll results,…
A group of Ethiopians and Kenyans have filed a lawsuit against Facebook’s parent company, Meta, accusing the platform of fuelling the viral spread of violence and hatred in Ethiopia’s civil war. The lawsuit was filed in the past week in…
Tomorrow, Twitter will debut a new version of its subscription service, Twitter Blue. The new pricing will be $8 per month, according to a message the company posted on Twitter on Saturday. However, those who choose to subscribe through iPhone…
Elon Musk has implemented a number of controversial changes to Twitter’s policies ever since he took control of the social media platform in late October. Could these get the app kicked out of the stores? His goal is to establish…
Facebook is suing a South Korean firm it accuses of unlawfully using data to sell marketing and advertising. Facebook suing an analytics form for data misuse Facebook might have another Cambridge Analytica on its hands. In a late Friday news…
Instagram said Thursday it will now block additional hashtags that surface vaccine misinformation, but other hashtags and content promoted by anti-vaccination accounts are still thriving on the platform. The change in Instagram’s policies comes after a CNN Business report on…
Shortly after the bombings in Sri Lanka, and the spread of inaccurate stories began, the government took the drastic decision to block social media. To stop the spread of “false news reports”, Facebook, Facebook-owned WhatsApp and Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat and…
Facebook “unintentionally” uploaded the email contacts of more than 1.5 million users without asking permission to do so, the social network has admitted. The data harvesting happened via a system used to verify the identity of new members, Facebook asked…
Propaganda from terrorist groups, criminal gangs, sexual predators. All of these pose a big threat in real life, and an even bigger threat on social media platforms. And the UK is trying its best to curb the spread of this…
Roskomnadzor wants to know how and when the social media sites will comply with legislation requiring all servers that store Russians’ personal data to be located in the country, it confirmed in an emailed statement. The agency’s chief, Alexander Zharov,…