Social Media
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The Hidden Meaning Behind Emojis Emojis have become part of everyday lexicon. Understanding the hidden meanings could help you avoid serious embarrassment. -
Facebook Birthday Charity Raises $1 Billion More than $1 billion in donations have flowed through Facebook's birthday fundraisers alone over the past few years, thanks to the over 45 million Facebook users who have donated or created a fundraiser through the massive social platform. -
Instagram to Take on Snapchat With New Messaging App Instagram is poised to add a standalone messaging app to its lineup, threatening to compete with Snapchat in a very meaningful way. Learn more about the battle between these social media giants and what it means for the future of messaging. -
YouTube Admits Defeat, Will End Targeted Ads in Kids Videos YouTube is throwing in the algorthmic towel: The Alphabet-owned video giant has revealed plans to stop running targeted ads on its videos aimed at child audiences. -
Trump Plans to Tackle Social Media “Bias” with Censorship Paper President Donald Trump hopes to pass an executive order that would see social media companies face closer scrutiny from the government, following his repeated allegations that the platforms show bias against conservative viewpoints. -
CloudFlare Removes Service from 8chan 8chan's repuation, and its role in the latest shooting has seen one of its service providers, CloudFlare, withdraw it service entirely, forcing the site offline. After initially declining to remove its support from 8chan, CloudFlare quickly changed its stance. -
Twitter to Label Rule-Breaking Tweets from Trump Twitter has often found itself under attack for the way it handles provocative tweets from high profile accounts, and now, in a post on the company's blog, it's vowing to do something about it. The company will begin flagging 'abusive' posts from verified government officials. -
5 Things We Learned from BBC Interview with Facebook’s Nick Clegg Today, Nick Clegg, Facebook's Vice-President of Global Affairs and Communications, sat down for an interview on BBC radio, and faced a grilling on his company's activities, past and present. Up for discussion were regulation, the Christchurch shooting, and Russian meddling. -
Twitch is Suing 100 Users for Their Shady Streaming Streaming site Twitch is lawyering up to take on 100 of its own users. According to a court filing, Twitch is accusing the organized group of 100 streamers of breach of contract and copyright infringement after they continually streamed porn, terrorist attacks, and more. -
US Immigration Now Asks For Your Social Media Details People wishing to travel to the US are now being asked to provide their social media details on visa applications, as well as their phone numbers from the past five years. These new visa rules are expected to impact 15 million people and give the US Government tonnes of data. -
Court Rules Elon Musk Needs a Lawyer to Approve His Tweets Elon Musk's tweets will soon all be lawyer-approved: According to a new court filing, the millionaire CEO has reached an agreement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to have a Tesla lawyer vet all of his Twitter musings on the subjects of Tesla’s finances. -
TikTok Banned from App Stores in India Following Court Order Google and Apple have dropped the Chinese social video app TikTok from their app stores in the country of India, following a ban enacted by an Indian state court.The app, which lets users share quick videos soundtracked to music, has 500 million users, and 40% live in India.