Twitter Mailbag: Why don’t fighters argue for ‘cancellation clauses’ in UFC contracts?
Why don't fighters argue for a bout cancellation clause that guarantees payment if the fight falls through? Why are people ignoring the neo-Nazi ties of an undefeated Bellator fighter? And how would Dr. Frankenstein build the perfect MMA fighter? All that and more in this week's Twitter Mailbag. To ask …
New Report Finds Twitter Routinely Violates Women’s Rights
Women have been saying that Twitter is an abusive place for over a decade, and now, 12 years to the day since the platform was founded in 2006, an extensive, eight-part report by Amnesty International has validated those claims. Titled #ToxicTwitter: Violence and abuse against women online," the … Read More
Milner enjoys a laugh on Twitter debut
James Milner has seen the funny side of his public image after the Liverpool midfielder made his debut on social media. Over the last four years, the 'Boring James Milner' parody Twitter account has gathered almost 600,000 followers with its tongue-in-cheek look on the 32-year-old's life on and off the … …
Was Your Facebook Data Actually ‘Breached’? Depends On Who You Ask
When Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg posted a status update Wednesday on the still-unfolding Cambridge Analytica scandal, he called it an “issue,” a “mistake” and a “breach of trust.” But he didn't say it was a data breach. Ever since the news broke this weekend that the U.K. firm Cambridge … Read …
Key Takeaways From Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook Media Blitz
Depending on how you look at it, Mark Zuckerberg took either five days or two years to respond publicly to the data privacy crisis that has rocked Facebook, sent its stock price tumbling, and inspired users to delete their accounts. Zuckerberg, after all, has known that Cambridge Analytica, a data …
Stop using Facebook? It’s not quite that simple
Patrick Cosgrove (Letters, 21 March) argues that the answer to the Facebook data scandal is simple – stop using Facebook. Alas, this completely misses the point. A few of us have never been a member of Facebook, but they still hold data about us, gathered from our friends and family …
How Not to Break Up on Social Media
All of this sort of begs the larger question, "What do we use social media for?" For some people, it is legitimately a form of socialization. For others, it's to bookmark articles and memes and pictures of small animals. For another group I will never understand, it's to have pointless …
Social media is ‘not judge and jury’: Blanchett addresses Allen accusations
Cate Blanchett has hit back at criticism she's "stayed silent" on abuse accusations against Woody Allen, adding she'd support a court case if the allegations needed to be re-examined. "I don't think I've stayed silent at all," Blanchett – who won an acting Oscar in 2014 for Allen's Blue Jasmine …
Zuckerberg recognises need for social media regulation
Facebook should be regulated, Mark Zuckerberg has said after apologising for the leak of 50 million users' data to a British company accused of interfering in elections. Asked if he was worried by pressure from governments, he said: “I actually am not sure we shouldn't be regulated . . . …
NBN rules still fail to address the balance of power between ISPs and wholesaler
At last they've recognised that SnappyTel isn't to blame when an NBN installer team misses an appointment or the customer's service simply fails to fire up. Not only blameless, but often as powerless as the customer to do much about it. Still, it's poor old SnappyTel that's in the complaints …