Is Dr Opuni’s House Now A Bank Of Ghana In Disguise?
I am shocked beyond disbelief. I cannot find words to describe the cold chill that descended down my spine with goose bumps filling my entire skin when I received a WhatsApp video on the money Dr Kwabena Opuni, the former Chief Executive Officer of COCOBOD, is alleged to have stored …
Is UPI a currency gaining traction?
Facebook-owned WhatsApp recently launched its UPI-based payment feature and a separate WhatsApp Business app. It is not the only player to tread this path; last year we saw Hike and Truecaller joining the UPI bandwagon with P2P (peer-to-peer) offerings, with Hike also offering services such as … Read More
Drunk guy adds 52 women to Whatsapp group to see who’s free to hook up, obviously doesn’t end …
Adding all your female phone contacts into one Whatsapp group and then seeing who is free for a hook up is probably not the best idea. Credit: Youtube/Wouldn't Change a Thing Mums doing carpool karaoke with their Down Syndrome children is the cutest thing ever. But that's exactly what this …
Twitter explains why ‘Love, Simon’ is so meaningful and why we all need to see it
The recently released Love, Simon is not only making LGBTQ+ history; it's also elevating the rom-com genre in unprecedented ways. It's been met with a choir of critical praise so far. Mashable's own MJ Franklin showered it with love in a review that called it "a gotdamn delightful romcom, and …
UMBC’s Twitter account was the star of the biggest upset in March Madness history
As the game played out, the @UMBCAthletics Twitter account rapidly gained, live-tweeting the upset and taking vengeance on sportswriters who dismissed the Retrievers too early. UMBC will play again on Sunday against No. 9 Kansas State in the second round with a spot in the Sweet 16 on the line. …
Twitter Continued Its Suspension Streak by Shutting Down Verified Accounts
On March 9, Twitter suspended a handful of accounts in what Buzzfeed has dubbed a “Tweetdeckoning.” Many of these accounts—such as @Dory, @GirlPosts, @SoDamnTrue, Girl Code/@reiatabie, Common White Girl/@commonwhitegiri, @teenagernotes, etc—were wildly popular and had followers … Read More
Whistleblower explains how Cambridge Analytica ‘exploited’ Facebook
Last night Facebook announced bans against Cambridge Analytica, its parent company and several individuals for allegedly sharing and keeping data that they had promised to delete. This data reportedly included information siphoned from hundreds of thousands of Amazon Mechanical Turkers who … Read More
The Cambridge Analytica Debacle is not a Facebook “Data Breach.” Maybe It Should Be.
On March 16, we learned that Facebook will be suspending Strategic Communications Laboratories (SCL) and its offshoot Cambridge Analytica. According to Facebook, a University of Cambridge professor Aleksandr Kogan was using Facebook Login in his “research app,” collecting data about its users … Read More
‘Cambridge Analytica harvested data of 50 million Facebook users’
Cambridge Analytica, a big data company focused on political and commercial ad campaigns, paid for illegally obtained personal information of 50 million Facebook users, according to the New York Times and London Observer. The company, which worked on Donald Trump's 2016 presidential … Read More
Govt. to curb hate speech on social media
The Government will introduce regulations to curb hate speech on social media, after seeking legal advice, said Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (TRC) of Sri Lanka Chairman Austin Fernando. “We are doing something,” he told the Sunday Times yesterday. “These gazettes cannot be done … Read More