Social Media

Facebook had data-sharing partnership with 52 firms, including Alibaba, Huawei, Amazon, Apple

There are concerns Facebook has been using semantics to share data beyond a US FTC consent decree, requiring the site to obtain permission before collecting more data than a person's privacy settings allow.

Jul 1, 2018

Take Facebook quizzes frequently? Know how FB is harming your privacy

Nametests.com is a very common quiz app. However, a security expert has found how unsafe the app is when it comes to online data.

Jun 30, 2018

Instagram Stories updated with music feature

Instagram one-ups Snapchat, Musical.ly with new Stories feature

Instagram's latest update to its popular Stories feature will be a welcoming change for 400 million daily users. Read all about it here.

Jun 29, 2018

Game of Thrones season 7 episode 6 leaked

Facebook to introduce new feature to block spoilers: Keyword Snooze to the rescue

Facebook is dark and full of spoilers, sure. But not for long. The social networking giant will soon be introducing Keyword Snooze, which lets you hide posts with selected keywords for 30 days.

Jun 28, 2018

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Twitter's battle against bots continues, website announces new policies to tackle spam

From investing heavily in machine-learning technology to eliminating accounts that flout their spam policies, Twitter will now also require an e-mail or a phone number authentication to keep automated accounts in check.

Jun 27, 2018

Facebook's new policy fails to filter; Sex video linked to Bronx boy's death goes viral

Facebook continues to make massive blunders when it comes to explicit video content. It displayed a sex video on the platform even after promising to regulate such content on the site.

Jun 25, 2018

The Secretary General of Hezbollah, Sayyed Hasan Hasrallah said that his party, the anti-West militant group, has said that the Obama administration had no moral rights to launch attacks to the ISIS militant groups because it is the

Facebook, Twitter shut Hezbollah accounts, militant organisation cries foul

The Iran-backed militant group's social media accounts were deactivated after Isreali officials threatened Twitter with action if they fail to shut down the terrorist group's microblogging accounts.

Jun 24, 2018

Facebook's yet another mishandling of data; accidentally shares analytics with app testers

Facebook "accidentally" did another blunder and led to the leak of user data. The incident fuelled the flames of Cambridge Analytica scandal once again, which the company is still struggling with.

Jun 24, 2018

Addicted to Facebook? Soon you will know how much time you spend on social media

The social media company is developing a tool to track how long users are on the platform, record average times and the number of sessions.

Jun 23, 2018

Twitter to tackle spam, hate speech with acquisition of anti-abuse technology startup Smyte

The microblogging site has announced its acquisition of the San Francisco-based company in order to better tackle issues of spam and hate speech on social networking platform.

Jun 22, 2018

Facebook group subscriptions: Is the company really changing its business model?

The social media giant announced its plans to let groups charge members for exclusive content; Facebook would not be taking a cut of the fee, letting group administrators earn all the revenue.

Jun 21, 2018

Facebook doesn't want you sleeping in your photos; Science behind blinking selfie AI tool explained

The AI tool is highly dependent on a deep neural network Facebook called general adversarial network (GAN) to supplant the missing data.

Jun 20, 2018

Apple, Google, Facebook join hands against Trump; Satya Nadella under cloud?

Apple CEO Tim Cook, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki join hands against Trump's border policy and inhuman separation of children from parents, but Microsoft is under cloud over its products being used by ICE

Jun 20, 2018

Facebook to ban ads for weapons, ammunition for underage users

The social networking website's latest change in their policy bans advertising on weapon accessories and ammunition. The step seems to be defensive in nature after its involvement in several controversies.

Jun 18, 2018

WhatsApp withdraws support from many devices, plans to run on Windows 10

WhatsApp has suddenly withdrawn support from many devices, thereby initiating a new approach towards giving support to the platforms that have Windows 10 installed. List of the devices is here.

Jun 17, 2018

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