MUMBAI: If you've got any father as a connection on LinkedIn, you may have noticed that they might have changed their display picture in the last few days from the typical LinkedIn corporate mugshot to adorable pictures of them with their kids. It's no coincidence. Hundreds of fathers across the …

March Madness proved mad successful for video on Instagram and other major social-media platforms, and for key online publishers trying to grab fan attention during the three-week college basketball championships. Off the court, Instagram decisively won the battle among social media platforms, … Read More

she shared on Instagram. “Someone recently said to me that we all have our good angles and we all have our bad angles, so why do we let our bad angles carry so much more weight than our good angles? If you focus on how bad you look in the …

Diddy loves Cardi B, as all humans should, and to celebrate Invasion of Privacy, he posted a lengthy Instagram of himself dancing to "I Like It." "I'm proud of you," he wrote. "I've watched you evolve into the artist you are today. Keep pushing the culture forward, continue to be …

Facebook is currently faced with a privacy scandal and while Facebook itself is being looked at, this is not the first time that Facebook's other products have also gone under the microscope. WhatsApp has in the past faced some controversy over their plans to share user data with Facebook, and …

When U.S. President Donald Trump began crying “fake news,” and prime time news slots in India began to hold debates on photoshopped WhatsApp forwards, we knew post-truth times had truly arrived. But as is the nature of governments, it took some time for the arrival of fake news to register …

Some dissatisfied Facebook engineers are reportedly attempting to switch divisions to work on Instagram or WhatsApp, rather than continue work on the platform responsible for the Cambridge Analytica scandal, according to a recent report from the New York Times. In March, Christopher Wylie, the … Read More

The new figures come courtesy of a report by the Pew Research Center, which tracked bots on Twitter. And the research firm made a worrying finding. "Automated accounts play a prominent role in tweeting out links to content across the Twitter ecosystem," the Center's report explained. "The Center's … Read More

It's no secret that there are bots on Twitter. But how do bot accounts – which automatically create tweets without direct human oversight – actually affect the mix of content on Twitter? A new Pew Research Center study, conducted over a six-week period in the summer of 2017, examined 1.2 …

The study used the tool Botometer, developed by researchers at Indiana University and the University of Southern California, to determine which Twitter accounts were likely to be bots, looking at a list of about 2,300 popular sites and roughly 1.2 million tweets sharing links to them in a six-week period … …