social media

  • Trump to sign executive order on social media companies

    President Trump earlier threatened to put regulations or even shut down social media sites, including Twitter, after the latter labeled the president’s tweets with fact-checks. President Donald Trump will sign an executive order “pertaining to social media” shortly, White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany told reporters on Wednesday. McEnany first said it was not clear…

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  • Barcelona deny criticising players to boost president’s image

    Barcelona have denied trying to boost the image of club president Josep Maria Bartomeu by hiring a company that criticised current and former players, including Lionel Messi, on social media. According to Spanish radio station Cadena Ser Cataluna, the PR company I3 Ventures was contracted by Barca and oversaw “dozens” of accounts attacking the likes of Messi, Gerard Pique,…

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  • Facebook launches Cocoon app for every family

    Former Facebook employees are building a new type of social networking platform that will not be meant for the world but your own private world of your family. Called Cocoon, the new social network had been under development with select families and is now open to everyone on Apple iOS, Quartz reports. Users can post…

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  • Perrie Edwards admits social media can sometimes “mess” with her head. Image: Perrie Edwards The Little Mix singer has opened up about her battle with anxiety and panic attacks and she has revealed that she tries to “differentiate” what’s real on the internet and what is fabricated because it can make her feel like she’s not…

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  • A pretty female teacher who taught in one of UK’s secondary schools has lost her job after posting a controversial picture on social media. Lydia Ferguson never expected her “careless” action would backfire on her career after posing for a selfie at the edge of a bed with legs wide shut. Apparently ready for an…

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  • Priscelia Chan has revealed her reasons for staying away from social media for a few months, saying a prolonged illness taught her lessons she’d never have learnt in life. The Singaporean TV personality said she took ill last November while on the set of Home Truly. Image: Priscelia Chan However, the former tax auditor believes…

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  • A heartbroken Texas woman whose son feared to sleep because he didn’t want to die, is thankful that hope has been rekindled through her viral social media posts. http://ww3.hdnux.com/photos/57/30/65/12422514/3/920×920.jpg Her 10-year-old is suffering from leukemia. The woman named Jessica Medinger shared some pictures online to show her daily struggles to keep up with the heart-rending challenges…

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  • Kim Kardashian may never get over her traumas from the horrific robbery in Paris but she’s trying a new life far away from the public eye. While her TV series ‘Keeping Up With The Kardashians’ has been put on hold indefinitely, the social media icon has canceled public shows and stayed away from online activities…

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  • Police in China has received empowerment from the ruling Chinese Communist Party, to legally spy on over 720 million internet users in the country. The authorities now have an express right to access a person’s social media contacts in order to prove links to crime. According to a report from Radio Free Asia, China’s Ministry of…

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  • Please read the story culled from Naij (a news website) about a bus driver who disappeared after an accident. This is the background of attacks and counter-attacks on the social media between Nigerians who seem to find troubles where they don’t exist. These are my country people and I love the way we live.  Subject:…

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  • A man who felt so drunk and needed to cool off in the lavatory is chilling right now on the social media. He went out with his friends for a one too many and found his way to the toilet. How he made it into the urinal is still unknown.

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  • Around the world, social media has served as a competent marketing outfit for businesses; some people have found true love through online dating; and yet, a lot others have made it big by building apps, websites, soft wares etc. There’s simply no limits to the benefits to be gained from social media in this 21st…

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  • Visiobibliophobia is among the many ***phobias we hear in our everyday lives. Coined by some good-thinking scientists – maybe – visiobibliophobia refers to the fear of social media which include but not only facebook. When someone suffers from visiobibiophobia, they get worried about their social media, checking it over and over again, taking selfies and…

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