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Social media has not been good for his mental health, and he is taking a break from it, British actor Tom Holland announced in an Instagram post on Saturday (Aug 13). The star of Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) also used the post to promote a charity, Stem4. Holland, 26, had been an active user of…
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Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is being sued for $258 billion (€245 billion) by a Dogecoin investor who accuses him of running a pyramid scheme to support the cryptocurrency. In a complaint filed in federal court in Manhattan on Thursday, plaintiff Keith Johnson accused Musk, the electric carmaker and the space tourism company of racketeering…
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Ace actress Genevieve Nnaji has unfollowed everyone on Instagram and deleted all the pictures on her page. Her Instagram handle @genevievennaji was empty on Tuesday morning with just one post, 8.5 million followers and zero following. https://www.instagram.com/genevievennaji/ Though she didn’t state the reason for the action, some have speculated she is probably following the path…
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The 45th US President Donald Trump has no intention of coming back to Twitter, even after the platform’s acquisition by Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk that was announced on Monday. Trump told Fox News he will instead make his social media comeback on TRUTH Social, his own platform, in the coming days. “I am not going…
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Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has finally succeeded in acquiring the social media firm Twitter. The microblogging platform’s board of directors accepted Musk’s $44 billion offer to take the company private. “Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are…
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Social media giant Facebook’s content filters, which are meant to downrank harmful content and ‘misinformation’, have been malfunctioning for six months, according to an internal report, raising the familiar question of who will watch the watchmen. As many as half of News Feed views were subject to potential “integrity risks” over the last six months,…
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Russian regulators said Friday that the country’s internet users will be blocked from accessing Instagram, saying it’s being used to call for violence against Russian soldiers. In Moscow’s latest move to restrict access to foreign social media platforms, communications and media regulator Roskomnadzor said in a statement that it’s restricting national access to Instagram. It…
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META has hit major problems amid its biggest market value wipe-out ever. Social media giant Meta has delivered a gloomy outlook in its first earnings since undergoing a major rebrand in late 2021. The company suffered a staggering sell-off last week as its stock plummeted 26% and its market value plunged by more than $230…
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Australia’s prime minister yesterday lambasted social media as “a coward’s palace”, saying platforms should be treated as publishers when unidentified defamatory comments are posted, pouring fuel on a raging debate over the country’s libel laws. Mr Scott Morrison’s comments suggest he would favour making companies like Facebook liable for defamation with regards to some content…
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The introduction of emojis has hanged the way we communicate digitally. These colourful icons have gone from cute pictures we use while texting to images laden with meaning. The emoji options represent a variety of things; from faces, food, transportation to to sports and relationships. With the rise of smartphones and social media, they have livened up conversations,…
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Twitter Inc saw a surge in government demands worldwide in 2020 to take down content posted by journalists and news outlets, according to data released by the social media platform. In its transparency report published on Wednesday, Twitter said verified accounts of 199 journalists and news outlets on its platform faced 361 legal demands from governments…
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Award-winning actress, Annie Idibia, has lamented Instagram’s removal of her children’s business page @belviakidz from the social media platform. According to a post on her verified Instagram page, her children’s page was pulled down due to community rules violation, the fast rate of likes and comments on posts, and reports by other users. She also…
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Putting relevant ad content in front of interested eyes without coming off as intrusive”that’s what every digital publisher wants & what contextual advertising can offer! Did you know that only 4 in 100 ads per day get more than one second of attention? Well, having your ads in the right place is a must to…
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U.S. President Joe Biden revoked a series of executive orders that sought to ban new downloads of WeChat and TikTok and ordered a new Commerce Department review of security concerns posed by those apps, according to the White House. Biden signed the executive order on Wednesday. The administration of former President Donald Trump had attempted…
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Former President Donald Trump lashed out at Facebook Friday after the social media giant announced it would suspend his account for at least two years as it enforces new “protocols to be applied in exceptional cases.” “Facebook’s ruling is an insult to the record-setting 75M people, plus many others, who voted for us in the…
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Hackers are a menace to data privacy and personal security of netizens, so you need this knowledge to stay safe on social media. Follow these steps to protect your bank, Facebook and Whatsapp accounts: 1. FACEBOOK GO TO YOUR FACEBOOK ACCOUNT SETTINGS, CLICK ON IT, SCROLL DOWN TO SECURITY, CLICK ON IT, SCROLL TO SECURITY…
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