Finance Minister Matia Kasaija told Reuters in a phone interview that the tax will charge each mobile phone subscriber using platforms such as WhatsApp, Twitter and Facebook 200 Ugandan shillings ($0.027) per day. He dismissed concerns it could limit people's use of the internet. “We're looking for … Read More

After 22 years of marriage, Hugh Jackman marked his anniversary to wife Deborra-Lee Furness with a heartfelt message that he also shared on Twitter. But Ryan Reynolds, in true Deadpool form, decided not to let the kind thought sit there without poking some fun at it. It's all in good …

A Twitter user named Sarah, who goes by the handle @slevs19, is making some surprising headway trying to organize a Queer Eye reunion dinner party. Like most of the internet's best ideas, hers began as a joke, a Twitter thread about an imaginary “Fab Ten” get-together where the show's Bravo …

Khloé Kardashian has given birth to a baby girl! TMZ was the first to report that her daughter was born early Thursday morning, April 12th, 2018. While we're sure it was a momentous occasion for the first-time mom, we can't ignore the somewhat unfortunate circumstances that her child was born …

Facebook has new election security measures that Zuckerberg mentioned in his testimony, but so far is not providing any quick and direct opt-out of hyper-targeted political advertising by linking directly to an opt-out setting right next to political ads. Instead, Facebook plans to add disclosures “similar to … Read More

If I had given Mark Zuckerberg much thought before now, I would probably have put him in a similar category, as someone I considered with vague distaste but no real animosity. Then several things happened in rapid succession to recategorise Facebook in my mind from a simple bad habit – …

Mark Zuckerberg's former personal pollster, Tavis McGinn, thinks Facebook is having a negative impact on society. Based on his most recent survey, it seems much of the world agrees. McGinn, who used to track the public's perception of CEO Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg while working for … Read More

A woman in Uganda talks on her cellphone, but come July she will have to pay a tax to use social media on her phone. (AP). Uganda plans to slap a new tax on social media users from July to raise revenue, which human rights activists denounced as another attempt …

Iran's supreme leader has issued an Islamic ruling condemning social media sites for their alleged misuse of users' private information. As Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg prepared to testify in Washington over claims that he mishandled the privacy of millions of users, Iranian Islamic … Read More

Although we agree with M. Wright (“Instagram won't solve inequality,” Working Life, 16 March, p. 1294) that there are many systemic structures perpetuating the marginalization of women in science, we view social media as a powerful tool in a larger strategy to dismantle such structures. In addition … Read More