Teens on TikTok: do the benefits outweigh the risks?
Video app TikTok is quickly rising in popularity, especially among teenagers, but with safety, privacy, and national security concerns, do...
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Intel agency awards contract to company that harvests social media text, data
IARPA awards a research contract for extracting data from text to Raytheon BBN, which harvests the text of social media...
‘Let’s change India through sex’: MakeLoveNotPorn looks to empower Indian youth
Social sex video sharing platform MakeLoveNotPorn wants to launch in India to promote healthy sexual behavior in a country where...
Facebook News looks to be just another brick in the echo chamber wall
Facebook News launches in the US today in an attempt to help the media industry and democracy, but it appears...
‘Zuck Buck’ grilled in the House: Facebook CEO defends Libra in hearing
Mark Zuckerberg is appearing before the House Financial Services Committee where Chairwoman Maxine Waters grills him over Libra, political ads,...
47 attorneys general now support Facebook antitrust investigation
New York's attorney general announces today that 47 attorneys general have joined the antitrust investigation into Facebook, reaching as far...
FBI worries Facebook’s privacy first policy will be a ‘child predator’s dream’
An incredibly sensitive subject -- Facebook is looking to push a privacy first policy with end-to-end encryption, but the FBI...
Symptoms of shadowbanning on social media for your diagnosis
Shadowbanning is not uniformly defined, but here we show you the symptoms of this cyber affliction, so you can make...
Technology and the loneliness of young generations on Brains Byte Back
We can all relate to feeling alone at some point or another, but for younger generations this is a sensation...
‘Facebook’s Libra is a huge endorsement of the sustainability, capacity of blockchain’
The introduction of Libra by a tech giant like Facebook validates the sustainability of blockchain technology, Garrick Hileman, Head of Research...
The impact of social media on modern protest movements and democracy
As people increasingly turn to platforms like Facebook to organize anti-government movements, it’s important people understand social media’s impact on...
Internet Accountability Project launches to take on big tech’s ‘bad acts’
A former Senate staffer is taking a stab at big tech through the non-profit Internet Accountability Project (IAP), which aims...
Exposing echo chambers to eradicate the plague of propaganda
Five years after Dmytro Potekhin's 48 horrendous days in captivity at the hands of pro-Russian terrorists in Ukraine, the civic activist...
As big tech and govts differ over hate speech, should AI neutralize it?
As big tech platforms and governments have their own policies on hate speech, should society task AI with neutralizing it...
Facebook the accidental philanthropist with Libra?
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Surprised to see ‘philantropist’ and ‘Facebook’ in the same sentence? I’m as surprised as anyone, yet I came to write...
State Dept answers FAQs on social media screening visa applicants
The US State Department releases its FAQs regarding the social media screening of visa applicants while addressing those that don't have...
Dissecting Facebook’s ‘coordinated inauthentic behavior’ removal policy
Facebook announces it has removed dozens of pages and accounts from Iran that were involved in what the social media...
Who discerns what is fake news and why don’t we decide for ourselves?
Governments across the world are implementing policies and practices to control the fake news monster of social media. However, who...
Social media may give millennials anxiety now, but paradigms have a way of shifting
Digital technology has been blasted time and again for causing mental health problems among the millennials and Gen Z’ers. It...
White House wants to hear your experience with online political censorship
The Trump White House is asking people to share their stories of being censored online due to political bias with...
