Cardi B, Paul McCartney, Kim Kardashian & More Celebrate Easter on Social Media
Happy Easter! Music stars and celebrities like Cardi B, Paul McCartney, Gucci Mane, and Kim Kardashian took to social media Sunday (April 1) to celebrate the holiday. "Have a glorious Easter!" McCartney tweeted. See more Easter tweets and Instagram posts from Pearl Jam, Blink-182, Paris Hilton, … Read More
Putin’s Distrust of Social Media
… Fire” (front page, March 28), in the wake of this horrible tragedy, President Vladimir Putin urged Russians to obtain their information about the event from traditional news sources and not from the internet because, in his words, “You know it very well that social media is a murky source, …
Social media firms want us addicted to approval. So much for WiFi making us smarter.
Social media companies know this, and take advantage of it. There's even a company called Dopamine Labs that specializes in making apps more addictive. (And “more addictive” is a fair way of putting it, given that “dopamine hits” in the brain are also a key mechanism for addictions to alcohol, …
Social media skills should be taught in college
Before the internet and social media, most people cared little about what strangers thought of them. The majority of us only turned our heads toward celebrities and politicians. However, the rise of social media changed this notion; as social media further empowered public opinion and gave it more … Read More
Paul McCartney, Gucci Mane, Kim Kardashian & More Celebrate Easter on Social Media
Happy Easter! Music stars and celebrities like Paul McCartney, Gucci Mane, and Kim Kardashian took to social media Sunday (April 1) to celebrate the holiday. "Have a glorious Easter!" McCartney tweeted. See more Easter tweets and Instagram posts from Pearl Jam, Blink-182, Paris Hilton, and more … Read More
Mesut Ozil banters off Stoke Police on social media
Note to purveyors of banter. Mesut Ozil will find you (probably assist you) and then banter you off back. ADVERTISING. inRead invented by Teads. Confused? Let Le Buzz explain. When Arsenal lost 1-0 to Stoke in August 2017, Twitter user @TheIwobiEffect – and presumed Arsenal fan – reported a … Read …
Swaziland: PM Hints at Social Media Restriction
Swaziland's Prime Minister Barnabas Dlamini has hinted his government might try to restrict access to social media. He told Senators there was nothing police could do 'at the moment' about posts on sites such as Facebook. The Prime Minister and his government have a long history of threatening … Read More
Controls vital to avert private data infringements by social media firms
The Yomiuri Shimbun Can it be said that Facebook Inc. lacks awareness that it is a company handling a huge amount of private information? Information on about 50 million people is suspected to have been leaked via Facebook, the world's largest social media service. It can be said that it …
Brussels plans crackdown on ‘fake news’ in social media
Brussels is preparing to crack down on social media companies who have been accused of spreading “fake news”, issuing a stark warning that scandals such as the Facebook data leak threaten to “subvert our democratic systems”. The European Commission fears that next year's elections to the … Read More
Social media companies ignoring Israel’s warnings ‘unacceptable’
Arutz Sheva spoke with Wiesenthal Center Director of Global Social Action Agenda Rabbi Abraham Cooper at the 6th Global Forum on Combatting Antisemitism in Jerusalem. Cooper unveiled the 2018 "report card" produced by their center that "gives grades" to various social media companies … Read More