Social media giants must respond better to online abuse or face tougher laws, Sadiq Khan to tell …
Social media giants must respond better to their users being abused or face tougher laws on their conduct, Sadiq Khan will tell a major international conference today. The London Mayor will use a speech at the South by Southwest Conference in Texas to reveal a string of abusive and racist …
COMMENTARY: Unplugging from Social Media
He also wrote, "I turned off my digital news notifications, unplugged from Twitter and other social networks." Except during his two-month Twitter-vacation he reposted news stories, and posted comments about other tweets. All he actually did was stop using Twitter as his primary news source, so I assume … Read More
Elon Musk is being roasted on social media for ‘inventing the bus’
Elon Musk might love cars, but he hates traffic. So much so that in recent years, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX has been working on a new kind of underground transit system via his tunnel-boring company, aptly named The Boring Company. But a series of tweets unveiling his latest …
Rare Piebald Moose Goes Viral on Social Media
One of the west coast's famous piebald moose was captured on video, and it's garnering a great deal of attention. There has been a population of white, or piebald moose, an unusual genetic variant, in and around the Port au Port Peninsula for years. Scott Lemoine was near Black Duck …
Can’t Washington protect Americans from propaganda on social media?
The past two years have taught us that the United States needs a better handle on what social networks are doing to manipulate and prioritize information. If there's one thing that Washington could do, it would be to provide better safeguards to ensure that these powerful tools are not used …
Spanish boy whose disappearance sparked a social media campaign found dead
A missing person's alert with a photo of Gabriel went viral in Spain via mobile messaging services and social media. "This morning, the Civil Guard stopped the companion of Gabriel's father while she was transporting the little boy's corpse in the boot of a car," Interior Minister Juan Ignacio Zoido …
Truth lags on social media
Lies these days literally travel across social media at light-speed, leaving truth in their dust more so than ever. But observations about the speediness of falsehood predate Twain. In an 1850s sermon, the English preacher Charles Haddon Spurgeon said: “If you want truth to go round the world you must … …
We reveal the best ways to make sure your social media accounts don’t cost you a job
Love it or loathe it, social media usage has rocketed in the last decade and with it, privacy has flown out of the window like a (Twitter) bird. Many spill their guts on a number of social media websites, the most popular being Facebook, Instagram and Twitter – and the …
ReachOut survey on cyberbullying shows parents more concerned about social media than drugs
Australian parents are now more worried about their children using social media and technology than drugs, alcohol and smoking – a recent survey has … than 900 Australian parents of children aged from 12-18 by ReachOut saw them rank cyberbullying as the biggest negative with social media use. Read More
Social media must act responsibly, says Sadiq Khan
Politicians have “sat on their hands” while the world's technology companies have rewritten the rules of society without regulation, Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, will claim today. In an attack on the industry at a conference in America Mr Khan accuses social media companies of allowing algorithms … Read More