Social Media
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5 Revelations From Facebook Documents Seized by UK Parliament Almost 250 pages of internal documents from social media giant Facebook were posted online this Wednesday by a U.K. parliamentary committee. Here are the top five biggest news items from the cache of documents. -
What Happened With Facebook (While Everyone Was Distracted With Black Friday) Facebook had the relentless Black Friday and Cyber Monday news cycle to hide behind as bad news about its platform and the organizations it works with mounted up. We've covered all the latest Facebook bad news here, so you can keep up to date with the embattled social media site -
How Tanzania’s Anti-Gay Vigilantes Are Propelled By Social Media A Tanzanian government official has announced on YouTube that he is forming a squad that will use social media to identify gay people and LGBT activists so they can be arrested. What responsibility should social media sites take when their platforms facilitate real-world harm? -
What is TikTok? Everything You Need To Know About The Video-Sharing App You might have never heard of TikTok, but your kids probably use it every day. It's the video-sharing social media app aimed squarely at teenagers that is proving more popular than Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. We explain everything about it and how it works. -
Facebook Fined £500k by the UK’s ICO Agency The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) in the UK has announced that it's slapping Facebook with a £500,000 ($644,413) fine for “serious breaches of data protection law.” Spare change for Zuckerberg? Or an opening salvo for further penalties to come?
