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TikTok profits from livestreams of families begging Published
Displaced families in Syrian camps are begging for donations on TikTok while the company takes up to 70% of the proceeds, a BBC investigation found.
Read articleKanye West Locked Out of Twitter Following Anti-Semitic Tweet
Yesterday, the rapper’s Instagram account was restricted for policy violations
Read articleDont cook chicken in NyQuil FDA warns after TikTok challenge
Cooking chicken in cough medicine NyQuil is not only silly and unappetizing but can also be very unsafe, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said, following the "sleepy chicken" TikTok challenge.
Read articleTwitter shareholders approve 44bn dollars Musk deal
Twitter's shareholders have voted to approve a deal with Elon Musk to buy the company for $44bn (£38bn).
Read articleInstagram fined 405m Euros over children's data privacy
A Meta official told BBC News: "This inquiry focused on old settings that we updated over a year ago and we've since released many new features to help keep teens safe and their information private.
Read articleInstagram Removes Pornhub’s Account
Instagram has suspended Pornhub’s widely followed account on the social platform.
Read articleThe North Korean defectors who became YouTube stars
YouTube allows "a very different level of control and agency, to be able to just set up a camera in your apartment or wherever you might film, and just speak directly to an audience."
Read articleGoogle airbrushes out emissions from flying - BBC reveals
The way Google calculates the climate impact of your flights has changed, the BBC has discovered.
Read articleSaudi woman given 34-year prison sentence for using Twitter
Salma al-Shehab, a Leeds University student, was charged with following and retweeting dissidents and activists
Read articleElon Musk sells 6.9bn dollars of Tesla shares as Twitter lawsuit looms
Tesla boss Elon Musk has sold another 7.92 million shares in the electric car maker, worth around $6.88bn (£5.7bn).
Read articleThis popular South Korean influencer who looks like a person and is not human
She's got more than 130,000 followers on Instagram, where she posts photos of her globetrotting adventures. Her makeup is always impeccable, her clothes look straight off the runway. She sings, dances and models -- and none of it is real.
Read articleChinese man executed for murder of former wife during live stream
Tang Lu was found guilty of killing social media star Lhamo by setting fire to her online in September 2020
Read articleGoogle fires software engineer who claimed its AI chatbot is sentient
Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) Google said on Friday it has dismissed a senior software engineer who claimed the company's artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot LaMDA was a self-aware person.
Read articleGoogle to be banned in Ukraine’s occupied Donetsk and Luhansk regions
Leader of self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic claims search engine is promoting ‘terrorism and violence against all Russians’
Read articleWikipedia fights Russian order to remove Ukraine war information
The Wikimedia Foundation, which owns Wikipedia, has filed an appeal against a Moscow court decision demanding that it remove information related to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, arguing that people have a right to know the facts of the war.
Read articleTwitter to name top shareholder Musk to board
Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) said on Tuesday it would name top shareholder and Tesla (TSLA.O) boss Elon Musk to its board, a day after the billionaire disclosed a significant stake in the social media company.
Read articleUkrainian government calls on hackers to help defend against Russia
Cybersecurity firm seeks volunteers to help nation’s military conduct espionage operations against Russian forces
Read articleDad takes down town's internet by mistake to get his kids offline
A French dad faces jail time and a hefty fine after using a signal jammer to prevent his kids from going online and taking the rest of a nearby town down with them.
Read articleZuckerberg Has Burned 500 Billion dollars Turning Facebook to Meta
Facebook’s once unbeatable ad-tracking system — the engine that made it a more than $1 trillion company — has effectively been neutralized by the likes of Apple, which allows users to block the company’s trackers.
Read articleUS married couple arrested for allegedly conspiring to launder 4.5bn dollars in bitcoin
Husband and wife, a rapper on TikTok, are accused in the US’s biggest-ever cryptocurrency theft case
Read articleFacebook owner Meta sees biggest ever stock market loss
Facebook's owner Meta Platforms saw its stock market value slump by more than $230bn (£169bn) on Thursday, in a record daily loss for a US firm.
Read articleAndrew Forrest: Australian billionaire launches criminal case against Facebook
An Australian billionaire has launched a criminal case against Facebook, alleging the company failed to prevent scam ads that used his image.
Read articleLAPD officers fired for ignoring robbery to catch a Snorlax in Pokemon GO
Louis Lozano and Eric Mitchel, former police officers for the City of Los Angeles, filed a petition against the city of LA last week for being fired in 2017 after they were found to have ignored an ongoing robbery call in order to attempt to catch a Snorlax and other Pokemon in the mobile game Pokemon Go.
Read articleGoogle employees will lose pay and will eventually be fired if they don’t follow vaccination rules
Google has told its employees they will lose pay — and will eventually be fired — if they don’t comply with the company’s Covid-19 vaccination policy, according to internal documents viewed by CNBC.
Read articleYouTuber discovers submerged car of teens who disappeared 21 years ago
A scuba-diving YouTuber, who has made it his mission to find missing people, discovered the vehicle of two teens who disappeared 21 years ago in rural Tennessee.
Read articleAccording to our Google searches - 2021 was about getting better
The results are in: This past year, people wanted to get better.
Read articleDoor-kicking TikTok trend mistaken for home invasions prompting calls to police
"When people think their home or their family is threatened, they are going to give an equal response"
Read articleFacebook earns 9bn dollars despite whistleblower scandal
Facebook has posted better-than-expected earnings for the third quarter, as it continues to face bad press over leaked internal documents.
Read articleFacebook apps hit with two-hour disruption days after massive outage
Just days after several of its major services went down for about six hours, Facebook on Friday suffered another outage.
Read articleYouTube cancels Rewind for good after years of everyone hating it
YouTube kindly stops rewinding
Read articlePeople in the U.S. pay more for slower internet than European, Canadian, and Asian counterparts
According to the Open Technology Institute,For many consumers, the cost of getting online right now is simply too high and also too complicated.â€
Read articleTwitch reportedly suffers massive data leak
Game-streaming platform Twitch has reportedly been the victim of a leak divulging confidential company information and streamers' earnings.
Read articleInstagram promoted pages glorifying eating disorders to teen accounts
Instagram acknowledged to CNN this weekend that those accounts broke its rules against the promotion of extreme dieting, and that they shouldn't have been allowed on the platform.
Read articleFacebook Instagram Messenger and WhatsApp went down for 6 plus hours here is why
Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger are slowly but surely coming back up after more than 6 hours of being down. Your mileage may vary for now, but the services are in the process of coming back to life.
Read articleYouTube to remove all anti-vaccine misinformation
YouTube has said it will remove content that spreads misinformation about all approved vaccines, expanding a ban on false claims about Covid-19 jabs.
Read articleNew Zealand council's Zoom talks go viral as pretend meeting
A New Zealand council's Zoom meeting has been viewed more than 290,000 times on YouTube as people use it to pretend to take part and avoid being disturbed.
Read articleTwitter tests misleading post report button for first time
"Some people" in Australia, South Korea, and the United States will now see an option for "it's misleading" when trying to report a tweet, the tech giant said.
Read articleMan Arrested After Flying Drone Into World Trade Center to Make His YouTube Pop Off
A Dallas, Texas man was arrested after flying a drone in the World Trade Center complex in New York City on August 2 and crashing it into one of the skyscrapers. The man, Adam Ismail, 22, said: "Now, I’ve got a great New York story... I need to make my YouTube pop off."
Read articleInstagram influencer Hushpuppi pleads guilty to million-dollar fraud in US
A Nigerian Instagram celebrity, Ramon Abbas, known as "Hushpuppi" has admitted his involvement in a conspiracy to defraud a Qatari businessman of more than $1m, the U.S. Justice Department has said.
Read articleGoogle Maps suggests potentially fatal route up Ben Nevis
The John Muir Trust and Mountaineering Scotland have been trying to contact the internet giant about the issue.
Read articleGoogle and Microsoft agree to start suing each other again
The tech giants end five years of quietly settling their differences.
Read articleFuture of Twitter in doubt as company under siege in critical countries
Twitter needs India and Nigeria to grow. It's running into trouble in both
Read articleHackers breach Electronic Arts stealing game source code and tools
Hackers have broken into the systems of Electronic Arts, one of the world's biggest video game publishers, and stolen source code used in company games, a spokesperson confirmed to CNN Business on Thursday.
Read articleWebsites begin to work again after major breakage
In a statement, it said: "We identified a service configuration that triggered disruption across our POPs (points of presence) globally and have disabled that configuration."
Read articleThe day the internet broke
Hundreds of websites worldwide go DOWN - with UK government, Spotify, Netflix and Amazon all affected
Read articleMicrosoft CEO says the next generation of Windows is coming soon
Satya Nadella hinted at a big update in the works for Windows 10.
Read articleTikTok takes down hundreds of Australian videos in misinformation crackdown
False Covid claims, including that Scott Morrison faked getting his vaccine, among the content removed from the popular platform
Read articleTikTok has a new CEO
TikTok has finally appointed a new permanent chief executive, eight months after its former leader called it quits as the United States was threatening to ban the app.
Read articleTikTok sued for billions over use of children data
TikTok is facing a legal challenge from former children's commissioner for England Anne Longfield over how it collects and uses children's data.
Read articleFacebook- It is Your Fault That Hackers Got Half a Billion User Phone Numbers
A database containing the phone numbers of more than half a billion Facebook users is being freely traded online, and Facebook is trying to pin the blame on everyone but themselves.
Read articleTikTok’s parent company is valued at up to $ 250 billion
Shares in ByteDance, the parent company behind call-to-action video creation app TikTok, are trading at a company valuation of more than $ 250 billion on the secondary market.
Read articleBody editing apps on TikTok trigger eating disorders
Body-editing apps advertised on social media platforms TikTok and Instagram are “triggering†young people with eating disorders, campaigners fear.
Read articleYouTube to roll out short-form video service in U.S. to take on TikTok
Alphabet Inc’s YouTube is rolling out a short-form video-streaming service on its platform in the United States as it looks to better compete with rival TikTok in the hugely popular category.
Read articleFacebook will stop recommending political groups permanently
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday announced that the company will no longer recommend civic and political groups to its users.
Read articleGoogle says to block search engine in Australia if forced to pay for news
Alphabet Inc’s Google said on Friday it would block its search engine in Australia if the government proceeds with a new code that would force it and Facebook Inc to pay media companies for the right to use their content.
Read articleGoogle workers announce plans to unionize
The union will be open to all Alphabet employees and contractors
Read articleGoogle suffers worldwide outage with Gmail YouTube and other services down
Google has suffered a worldwide outage, with failures reported across the company’s services, including Gmail, Google Calendar and YouTube.
Read articleYouTube has temporarily suspended and demonetized OANN for a week
YouTube has barred One America News Network from posting new videos for a week and stripped it of its ability to make money off existing content after the Trump-friendly channel uploaded a video promoting a phony cure for COVID-19, YouTube spokesperson Ivy Choi tells Axios.
Read articleYouTube Will Now Show Ads On All Videos Even If Creators Dont Want Them
YouTube just changed its rules on video monetization, and YouTube creators aren’t happy. Essentially, Google will now show ads on all videos, even if their creators don’t want ads.
Read articleTikTok Bans Conversion Therapy and White Supremacist Content
In a Tuesday blog post, TikTok has announced a plan to remove hateful posts on the video-based social media platform.
Read articlePicture of the Day [21Aug2020]
The Statue of Jesus in Poland Provides internet to Nearby Villages.
Read articleFacebook algorithm found to actively promote Holocaust denial
Facebook’s algorithm “actively promotes†Holocaust denial content according to an analysis that will increase pressure on the social media giant to remove antisemitic content relating to the Nazi genocide.
Read articleFacebook removed seven million posts in second quarter for false coronavirus information
Facebook Inc (FB.O) said on Tuesday it removed 7 million posts in the second quarter for sharing false information about the novel coronavirus, including content that promoted fake preventative measures and exaggerated cures.
Read articleFacebook removes QAnon conspiracy group with 200,000 members
Facebook has deleted a large group dedicated to sharing and discussing QAnon conspiracy theories.
Read articleEver wondered how secure your password is
How long will it take to crack your password.
Read articleGoogle pulls 2,500 China-linked YouTube channels over disinformation
Google says it has deleted more than 2,500 YouTube channels tied to China as part of its effort to weed out disinformation on the videosharing platform.
Read articleWhy Google new WFH plan is a game changer
Google employees don't have to head back to the office until next summer ... or maybe even later.The company told workers on Monday that they can work from home until July 2021.
Read articleTikTok predicts staggering loss of cash following India ban
TikTok parent company ByteDance Ltd. is expecting to lose an absurd amount of money as a result of being banned in India.A recent report from Caixin (via The Economic Times) claims that the firm expects to lose a staggering $6 billion dollars as a direct result of the India ban.
Read articleFree internet to help poorer pupils study online in England
Free internet access is being offered for six months to help some disadvantaged youngsters study online.
Read articleTwitter tests new feature that recommends reading an article before sharing it
Twitter is testing a new feature that will recommend reading an article before sharing it, according to the company.
Read articleFacebook shuts down far-right group planning to bring weapons to protests
Facebook said Tuesday that it had shut down pages and accounts associated with what it said was a hate group, whose members were discussing bringing weapons to the protests that are happening across the country.
Read articleYouTube CEO: We will ban any coronavirus content against WHO guidelines
YouTube will ban any content containing medical advice that contradicts World Health Organisation (WHO) coronavirus recommendations, according to CEO Susan Wokcicki.
Read articleHow to Spot Fake News
It’s easy to get distracted by the urge to hit ‘share’. But most of us wouldn’t, if we gave it a moment’s thought.Before we set out to convince others to believe what we believe, it might be worth pausing for a minute, to decide if we truly believe it ourselves.A quick guide to spot fake news and stop it from spreading.
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