Twitter melted down over these ‘pervy’ Team USA uniforms
One Twitter user said the pattern must have been approved by the fictional “Pervy Tom the crotch ogler.” Another said: “So who designed the US speed skating uniforms? That crotch-highlighting look is a little tone-deaf.” One more posted: “WTF is with the women's speed skating outfits? Crotch bullseye … Read More
Veldon Coburn’s Twitter Account Partially Suspended By Mistake: Twitter
Outrage greeted what appeared to be the suspension of an Indigenous academic's Twitter account, but Twitter said it was all a mistake. The social media saga began when Veldon Coburn, who teaches Indigenous issues at McGill University, received a threat on Twitter Monday morning. A user named … Read More
How Investors Will Benefit As Facebook And Twitter Replace Traditional News
Social media is already a source of news for about two-thirds of U.S. adults according to the Pew Research Center. But, the traditional media's focus on Facebook's problems with fake news and President Trump's tweets have kept investors from seeing that Facebook and Twitter have already replaced … Read More
Facebook data is powering Stanford economist’s American inequality study
Facebook is sharing some of your financial secrets with the world's leading researchers. The tech giant has offered up some of its massive treasure trove of personal data to academia. Stanford economics professor Raj Chetty has been leading a team working on an America inequality study, and in a … Read …
Big Stock Sales: Alibaba, Amazon, Facebook
William Blair made some other decisive moves in the fourth quarter, including ramping up its investment in Netflix (NFLX) and cutting back on Facebook (FB), Amazon.com (AMZN) and class A shares of Alphabet (GOOGL). On Dec. 19, William Blair posted an update about the shift to streaming content … Read More
Facebook makes it easier to share detailed 3D objects
Facebook has had the option to post 3D objects for a while, and now you'll have some better reasons to use it. The social site has introduced support for a standard 3D file format (gITF 2.0) that not only allows for richer objects with more realistic rendering like textures and …
‘Being Patriotic’ — How Russia worked to influence Pennsylvania voters over social media in 2016
The announcements went out about a month before the 2016 election — dozens of posts on social media advertising a series of simultaneous rallies for then-presidential candidate Donald Trump in cities across Pennsylvania. Top Republican leaders, a former governor, and grass-roots GOP organizers … Read More
APS: No threats to schools after social media scare
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE)— Parents and students at local high schools are on edge after an alleged threat was circulating on social media Tuesday morning. An email was released by Volcano Vista High School addressing a social media threat made against a school with the initial THMS. Read More
Drug dealers, users find new market in social media posts
Our sister station in Atlanta, WSB-TV, spoke with police. Investigators said they often see people post pictures of illegal drugs and guns on Instagram, Facebook and Snapchat. They said drug dealers think it is safer because the messages disappear on Snapchat, or are not as easily accessible as a text … …
Bigtincan and Yoga on the Fly Help Bring Serenity to Travelers
BOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Bigtincan (ASX:BTH), the leader in mobile, AI-powered sales enablement automation, today announced that Yoga on the … “With the Hub, our customers are able to choose a class via a user-friendly display that gives them control over their experience from start to finish. Read More