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Now a new crisis is emerging that closely resembles the financial crisis of 2008, and that's data privacy. It is now emerging that the American 2016 election was highly influenced through social media. Apparently, data companies would use social media platforms to target people with messages geared … Read More
‘What’s Facebook?’ Elon Musk deletes company pages from social media giant
Elon Musk nonchalantly erased Tesla and SpaceX from the world's most popular social media platform on Friday. Calls to abandon Facebook have swirled all week after news broke that the data of about 50 million users was harvested by political analytics firm Cambridge Analytica. On Friday, Musk … Read More
Digital Marketing Firm Studies How Iowans Use Social Media
DES MOINES, Iowa — There are plenty of ways to connect to people around the world through social media. Blue Compass studied how Iowans use social media. The survey found Facebook was the clear winner, with 43% of respondents saying the site is their favorite platform. Instagram was chosen as … …
A kind gesture that was shared on social media
A picture of a young medical student trying to help a young man injured in a road accident in Belagavi on Friday was shared on many a social media platform. The image showed the Hijab-wearing junior doctor kneeling down on the road, beside the victim, trying to help stop bleeding …
Alabama Teens Allegedly Posted Photos of Overdose Victim to Social Media Before Seeking Help
Two teens face charges after authorities say they posted a photo of a drug overdose victim on social media before seeking help for the 18-year-old, who died. John Garrett Guffey, 19, and Lillie Marie Cooper, 18, both of Grant, Alabama, were indicted this week in an incident that occurred 11 …
7 News gets answers after social media claim goes viral
SPARTANBURG CO., S.C. (WSPA) – An Upstate business owner is speaking out after a customer's claim of bed bugs went viral on social media. The business is Big Air in Spartanburg. Friday, the owner invited 7 News inside the trampoline park to show the measures he's taken to prove his …
Andrew Coyne: The pessimists might be right, social media may have plunged us into a new dark …
The Cambridge Analytica scandal is the latest in a series of incidents that, taken together, have contributed to a rising sense of alarm over the effects of social media — on human behaviour, on civil discourse, on democratic politics. A growing number of commentators have concluded that social media … Read …
Our social media profiles have become a political weapon
The fundamental problem is social media companies like Facebook, Twitter and others have built their business model on the idea of capturing and breaking down your data and selling your attention to the highest bidder. Students will ask me, “Why doesn't Facebook have a customer service number I … Read More
What Your CEO Is Reading: Social Media Killer Apps; GDPR; Humanity’s End
Killer app for the social media age #1: Data ownership. Speaking at a cybersecurity event in 2010, cyber expert Bruce Schneier had some words on social media. “Don't make the mistake of thinking you're Facebook's customer, you're not – you're the product,” he said. “Its customers are the advertisers. Read …
Social media titan loses shine
SAN FRANCISCO • Mr Mark Zuckerberg rose to wealth and fame with a mission of connecting people, but he now faces the wrath of users outraged that he is not doing more to defend their data. The latest crisis laying siege to leading online social network Facebook has raised the …