WhatsApp update for Android adds group description, search participants features, and more
Facebook-owned WhatsApp, the popular instant messaging app on Android, iOS and Windows Phone OS, has constantly being updated with new features. Recently, the company added the ability to add Group Description in its beta version of the app. Now, the feature has been rolling out to stable … Read More
Twitter explodes as Mohamed Salah nets four against Watford
Twitter explodes as Mohamed Salah nets four against Watford. Twitter was was full of praise for Mohamed Salah after he scored four goals against Watford. Here are … Salah's four-goal haul against Waford led to a flurry of comments on social media, as fans used twitter to applaud the Liverpool …
Twitter to prohibit range of cryptocurrency ads
Twitter may also ban all ads for cryptocurrency exchanges, with some limited exceptions, when the policy is launched. It follows an announcement by Facebook in January that it would begin prohibiting ads that promote financial products and services which are "frequently associated with misleading or … Read More
Elon Musk fakes steal thousands a day through Twitter
The scam takes place after a high-profile Twitter account posts, then an impersonating account with the same image and display name responds in the thread offering to give away cryptocurrency. Claiming that they want to support the cryptocurrency community, the scammers in the guise of the … Read More
Secret Facebook page reveals violence at heart of forum for ‘football fans’
The Football Lads Alliance, the group behind marches against what they call “Islamist extremists”, uses a secret Facebook page full of violent, racist and misogynistic posts, targeting Sadiq Khan and Diane Abbott, as well as playing down the crimes of the Finsbury Park mosque attacker, Darren Osborne. Read More
Facebook suspends Cambridge Analytica for misuse of personal data
Facebook has banned the analytics firm Strategic Communication Laboratories and its political arm, Cambridge Analytica, for failure to follow its rules regarding the handling of personal data. While some outlets have reported that this was the result of a breach, the social network denies this claim. In the … Read More
Facebook and its executives are getting destroyed after botching the handling of a massive data …
Facebook and its executives faced a torrent of backlash on Saturday following news reports that the data firm Cambridge Analytica, which worked on the Trump campaign in 2016, improperly harvested private information from 50 million Facebook users. The company quickly faced calls for increased … Read More
The Top 5 Social Media Stories Of This Week
Welcome to this week's top social media stories: GIPHY gets in trouble, Twitter wants to verify everyone, Facebook has a new video uploader and YouTube Stories can do magic. Sometimes things don't go as planned. Sometimes it's not your fault, it's the third-party content you use that bugs. GIPHY got … …
Social media to play vital role in coming Bengal rural polls
The TMC leadership has asked its district leaders to ensure maximum use of social media to reach out to young voters. Its students wing, the Trinamool Chatra Parishad, has engaged its cadres in various colleges of the districts to create awareness about the developmental work of the Mamata Banerjee … Read …
‘Governments crawling, ISIS sprinting on social media’ – expert
MANILA, Philippines – "Governments are crawling when the Islamic State is sprinting when it comes to social media. Governments must invest more in controlling and containing the spread of terrorist propaganda in cyberspace." Terrorism analyst Rohan Gunaratna said governments should double … Read More