Thursday, January 16, 2025
Photo courtesy of Anthony Quintano, Wiki. Facebook is rebranding to “Meta Platforms Inc.” as founder Mark Zuckerberg moves the company towards more interactive internet experiences. Though it was announced at the end of June, “Metaverse,” Zuckerberg’s new plan for a 3D virtual reality program, is taking the internet by storm […]
Photo courtesy of Bloomberg Philanthropies, Flickr Facebook announced Friday that it will allow politicians to run advertisements on its platform, categorized as “branded content.” The announcement follows news from Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg’s campaign that Meme 2020, run by Jerry Media chief executive Mick Purzycki, has been hired to […]
Photo courtesy of premier.gov.ru, Flickr In the world of social media, people are allowed to post anything they want. People can tweet or post anything that they want because it counts as freedom of speech. However, this may not be the same for politicians. In a statement last month, Facebook […]
Photo courtesy of JD Lasica, Flickr Twitter will no longer run political advertising on its platform. CEO Jack Dorsey made the announcement on Oct. 30 in a Twitter thread, detailing why the decision was made. “We believe political message reach should be earned, not bought,” Dorsey tweeted. “Internet political ads […]
Photo courtesy of Anthony Quintano, Wikipedia Facebook has had it rough lately. Mark Zuckerberg has testified before Congress twice this year, which is strange for a CEO of a private company. Yet there are very real concerns that Facebook is creating a monopoly through its social media network and abusing […]
Photo courtesy Anthony Quintano, Flickr Facebook announced that they will begin banning those who support and represent white nationalism and white separatism on both Facebook and Instagram on March 27. This decision came 13 days after a white nationalist opened fire on a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, killing 50 […]
Photo courtesy of Google, Twitter Google announced last week that it was shutting down its social network, Google+, because a bug in their software caused private information to become accessible to third parties. Google said that up to 500,000 people were affected, and it was also made known to the […]
Logo courtesy of Youtube.com A complaint filed to the Federal Trade Commission last week by a group of 23 consumers, child safety and privacy advocacy groups claims that YouTube collects data from children under the age of 13. The 59-page complaint, which can be accessed online, alleges that Google, which […]
Photo courtesy of Priese Hamburg, Wikipedia When the idea of social media first cropped up in the imaginings of early internet pioneers such as Jimmy Wales, creator of Wikipedia, it differed from social media in its present state. The goal was to create a network of common interests while simultaneously […]
Icon courtesy of Benstein, Flickr There were many uncomfortable realities people on each side of the political spectrum faced during the 2016 election cycle, and chief among these realities was coming to terms with the possibility of Russian interference. While to some this was a welcome scapegoat to explain why […]
