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Tech News : Pro-Kremlin Trolls Targeting Media Website Comments
Social Media Sep 2021

Tech News : Pro-Kremlin Trolls Targeting Media Website Comments

The results of new research suggest that the comments section for stories on prominent media websites across many western countries are the focus of major Kreml...

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Featured Article – Rules & Regs: Social Media
Social Media Jan 2021

Featured Article – Rules & Regs: Social Media

In this article, we look at the rules, policies and guidance around what types of content is –  and isn’t – allowed on social media websites. S...

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Influencers Paid To Promote NHS Test and Trace
Social Media Sep 2020

Influencers Paid To Promote NHS Test and Trace

In a bid to raise awareness of responsible behaviour concerning COVID-19 among the younger age groups, the UK government is reported to be paying freelance soci...

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AI-Faked Photos and Videos Concerns
Social Media Aug 2020

AI-Faked Photos and Videos Concerns

Social media analytics company Graphika has reported identifying images of faces for social media profiles that appear to have been faked using machine learning...

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Trump Terminates TikTok
Social Media Aug 2020

Trump Terminates TikTok

The Trump administration’s next high-profile target in its Chinese trade-war is the hugely popular video-sharing mobile app TikTok, which has been slapped with...

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The Start of Google and Facebook Paying For News Content?
Social Media Aug 2020

The Start of Google and Facebook Paying For News Content?

At a time when smaller news outlets have been forced to close and big tech companies dominate distribution, the Australian Government may make the likes of Goog...

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Celebrity Twitter Accounts Hacked For Bitcoin
Social Media Jul 2020

Celebrity Twitter Accounts Hacked For Bitcoin

Twitter accounts of celebrities including Barack Obama and Bill Gates were hacked and used to operate a scam, asking people to donate bitcoin. What Happened? Ha...

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LinkedIn Sued Over Clipboard-Reading Allegations
Social Media Jul 2020

LinkedIn Sued Over Clipboard-Reading Allegations

An Apple iPhone user in the U.S. has sued LinkedIn over allegations that its app was reading the contents of an Apple device user’s clipboard without their know...

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Twitter to Replace “Master”, “Slave” and “Blacklist”
Social Media Jul 2020

Twitter to Replace “Master”, “Slave” and “Blacklist”

Twitter has announced that it will be replacing programming language terms such as “master”, “slave” and “blacklist” with more inclusive ones. Programming Langu...

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Featured Article – Why Big Brands Are Boycotting Social Media
Social Media Jul 2020

Featured Article – Why Big Brands Are Boycotting Social Media

Large, mainly U.S.-based companies (many of which are household names) have said that they will be boycotting Facebook and Instagram in terms of paid advertisin...

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YouTube Bans 5G and COVID-19 Link Conspiracy Videos
Social Media Apr 2020

YouTube Bans 5G and COVID-19 Link Conspiracy Videos

After a recent live-streamed interview with David Icke linked the introduction of 5G technology to the emergence of the COVID-19 the pandemic, Google’s YouTube...

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Facebook Sued Down-Under For £266bn Over Cambridge Analytica Data Sharing Scandal
Social Media Mar 2020

Facebook Sued Down-Under For £266bn Over Cambridge Analytica Data Sharing Scandal

Six years after the personal data of 87 million users was harvested and later shared without user consent with Cambridge Analytica, Australia’s privacy watchdog...

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