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WDBJ7
April 30, 2018
MALIBU, Calif. -- Seventeen-year-old David Mayer from Ohio says he felt constant pressure from his parents to be perfect. Overwhelmed, he started using drugs. "I was struggling with severe depression and anxiety," Mayer told CBS News correspondent Mireya Villarreal. He also got lost online for up to fourÃâà...
New Statesman
April 30, 2018
In some dusty and almost forgotten corner of the internet, an argument is raging even now as to whether Slavoj Žižek was in fact quoting Goebbels when he attributed the following to Antonio Gramsci: “The old world is dying, and the new one struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.” I have my ownÃâà...
E! Online
April 30, 2018
UPDATE: Hours after a huge blow up, Ronnie Magro-Ortiz has now apologized for his Sunday afternoon social media tirade. Utilizing the same medium that he used to bash girlfriend Jen Harley with, the reality star posted an apology on Instagram Stories, explaining that he's sorry for his actions. He wroteÃâà...
WMTV
April 30, 2018
Social media used to share information about standoff in Columbus. People who live near the home where the standoff occurred used social media to communicate information about the situationÃâà...
Frederick News Post
April 30, 2018
That's pretty much the only social media we use,” Jones said. Whitney Dahlberg, of The Muse, also uses Instagram, along with Facebook, to help let customers know what merchandise she has, as well as to share information about events and artist demonstrations. Because the shop sells one-of-a-kindÃâà...
MarketWatch
April 29, 2018
“The American Meme” chronicles the exploits of business mogul Paris Hilton, party photographer Kirill Bichutsky and social-media phenomenons Brittany Furlan and Josh “The Fat Jew” Ostrovsky. Also featured are actress Emily Ratajkowski, model and TV personality Hailey Baldwin and social-media starÃâà...
Verdict
April 24, 2018
British pub chain JD Wetherspoon closed down its social media accounts recently — Twitter, Facebook and Instagram — unironically using Twitter to announce its departure. Now others could make the same move in an attempt to save money and focus their business. For some though, social media hasÃâà...
CNBC
April 24, 2018
U.S. government regulation of social media platforms could end up hurting small businesses and the U.S. economy, "Shark Tank" investor Kevin O'Leary warned on Tuesday. "All of these businesses that are sitting at $5 million to $10 million in sales can't live or acquire customers without social mediaÃâà...
Fresno Bee
April 24, 2018
Anywhere you go you'll always catch someone on their phone texting or on social media. It makes it nearly impossible to have human interaction with someone nowadays. Seeing that this is so frequent in my generation and others, I decided to go five days without using social media. What I noticed withinÃâà...
The Federalist
April 24, 2018
There is now widespread agreement that social media is a problem. In describing his hiring at The Atlantic and abrupt firing at the behest of a Twitter mob, Kevin Williamson concludes that the problem is how “the rage-fueled tribalism of social media, especially Twitter, has infected the op-ed pages and,Ãâà...
Times Higher Education (THE)
April 24, 2018
... the target of Brexit campaigners who claimed that the people in the country had “had enough of experts”. According to a new study, this failure to connect extends to leading economists' use of social media platforms such as Twitter, which are increasingly key tools in the dissemination of political rhetoric.
Axios
April 24, 2018
The account of popular progressive Instagram model @lilmiquela (1 million followers) was supposedly "hacked" last week by popular pro-Trump instagram model @bermudaisbae (64k followers). While details around the hack are hazy, a photo of the models together suggests that the event was coordinated. Instagram saysÃâà...
Futurism
April 24, 2018
As Facebook adds users around the globe, a number back home in the U.S. are quitting. For users tired of the sketchy policies and abuse of trust, the Cambridge Analytica scandal seems to have been the last straw. But now the question: what will take its place? Some users are turning to a platform that flipsÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report (blog)
April 19, 2018
Every once in a while, it's a good idea to do some digital cleaning. It might be wise to set aside some time to clean up your social media profiles, especially Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram. Your future employer will look at your social media profiles and what they find could sway their decision.
Designboom
April 19, 2018
we spend time on social media, in a way, like online hotels, but with the #deletefacebook movement running amuck, many prominent influencers are checking out. most-recently, elon musk and playboy ended their long stays at the facebook-inn. meanwhile, instagram nears its peak, twitter picks up someÃâà...
WTOP
April 19, 2018
PHOENIX (AP) — The public education uprisings that began in West Virginia and spread to Arizona, Oklahoma and Kentucky share similar origin stories. Teachers, long tired of low wages and a dearth of state funding, begin talking to each other online. Their Facebook groups draw tens of thousands ofÃâà...
Entrepreneur
April 19, 2018
Going viral on social media is what every business wants to do. All the attention and all the respect can take your business to the next level. The problem is doing it. I'm a regular follower of social media and I've experimented with different strategies to garner more interactions. But I've boiled it down to twoÃâà...
WGRZ.com
April 19, 2018
A whopping 69% of millennials take a picture of their food before they eat it. Businesses are cashing in and competing for social media fame by offering insta-worthy menu items that are sometimes just plain wacky. NBC's Liz McLaughlin reports.
Entrepreneur
April 19, 2018
In the past year, research has revealed the negative health effects of social media and its negative impact on our society. Facebook has been heavily criticized for its laissez-fair handling of personal data, which has led to questionable privacy and data collection practices by social media networks and bigÃâà...
The Denver Post
April 19, 2018
A Canadian woman who tried to smuggle millions of dollars worth of cocaine into Australia has been convicted and sentenced to eight years behind bars. Melina Roberge, 24, was sentenced Wednesday after pleading guilty to smuggling 95 kilos (209 pounds) of the drug into the Sydney Harbour in 2016,Ãâà...
Irish Times
April 19, 2018
When news broke last weekend that 'senior US officials' had travelled to North Korea for discussions about a potential meeting of the two countries' leaders, White House officials denied rumours that the US envoy had been CIA director Mike Pompeo. Then Trump tweeted. On Wednesday, among his usualÃâà...
TechCrunch
April 19, 2018
The unfettered internet is too often used for malicious purposes and is frequently woefully inaccurate. Social media — especially Facebook — has failed miserably at protecting user privacy and blocking miscreants from sowing discord. That's why CEO Mark Zuckerberg was just forced to testify about userÃâà...
International Policy Digest
April 16, 2018
All the attention being given to Facebook and Cambridge Analytica regarding their breach of public trust and exploitation of personal data is richly deserved. It has raised some fundamental questions about Internet privacy and the duties and obligations of all the service providers who collect, consume, andÃâà...
The Conversation US
April 16, 2018
The research my colleagues and I conduct at Georgia State University tracks how terrorist organizations expose people – mostly young men – to radical messages and extreme violence on social media. The goal: changing their worldview and eventually guiding them to act. The Boston Marathon bombingÃâà...
The Root
April 16, 2018
From her commitment to speaking out against the war on drugs to advocating for prison abolition, Erica Garner understood that none of us are free until all of us are free, and she used social media to make that clear every single day. She understood social media's power and potential, and used it as oneÃâà...
The Guardian
April 16, 2018
Social media video shows arrests of black men at Philadelphia Starbucks – video ... Play Video. 0:47. Video posted to social media shows police officers arresting two black men as they sat in a Starbucks coffee shop in Philadelphia. The arrests prompted some to accuse the company of racial discriminationÃâà...
New York Times
April 16, 2018
BEIJING — Bowing to intense pressure from millions of internet users, a Chinese social media site said on Monday that it would scrap plans to censor cartoons and video games with gay themes. The site, Sina Weibo, had announced on Friday that it would target gay content as part of a campaign to removeÃâà...
TechCrunch
April 16, 2018
When the President changes our country so drastically, will we have a new concept of what's normal? If our social media feeds consist of people who think just like us, how can we expect social change? And why do we always assume the future will be better than the past? In the latest episode of theÃâà...
The Guardian
April 16, 2018
JD Wetherspoon is closing down all its social media accounts in a move that has been met with widespread scepticism. The pub chain's decision was reportedly in response to the trolling of some MPs, but many commentators suspected it was a publicity stunt by the chairman, Tim Martin. The company saidÃâà...
MSUToday
April 4, 2018
GamerGate, the 2014 social media activist movement, is an example of how dark patterns and supraplatforms work in tandem to terrorize certain users. Liza Potts, MSU associate professor of digital humanities, led the study that was published in Present Tense Journal. She used the GamerGate controversyÃâà...
Raconteur
April 4, 2018
It's all about social media right? Think again. The number of people using messaging apps overtook social networks two years ago. Globally, more than two billion log on to one of the top five messaging apps every month. In China, Tencent just announced that its WeChat platform hit a milestone – anÃâà...
The Observer
April 4, 2018
President Yoweri Museveni's proposed taxation of use of social is purposely to curtail consumption of foreign content and use of foreign mobile applications according to minister of Information Communication and National Guidance, Frank Tumwebaze. In a March 12 letter to the minister of Finance MatiaÃâà...
Hyperallergic
April 4, 2018
Our modern forms of social media have only been around since the turn of the millennium, but ways of documenting social relationships have existed since at least the Renaissance. We have Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, but long ago, traveling scholars would collect entries in literal “friendship books”Ãâà...
Entrepreneur
April 4, 2018
Despite recent criticism among business and political commentators, social media networks remain some of the most important and unifying internet platforms. More than 2.5 billion people use social media networks, and that number is expected to grow in the coming years. Marketers must rely on moreÃâà...
Naked Security
April 4, 2018
The Trump administration hasn't gotten rid of the “optional” part, though current Trump chief of staff John F. Kelly told Congress last year that he wanted DHS (he was DHS secretary at the time) to demand social media logins and passwords from potential immigrants coming from seven Muslim-majorityÃâà...
CBS News
March 31, 2018
Survivors of sexual abuse by Michigan State University doctor Larry Nassar are upset with the university after news of social media monitoring, the editor of school newspaper State News told CBSN on Friday. A report in the Lansing State Journal claims the university spent over $500,000 to a NewÃâà...
CNN
March 31, 2018
(CNN) An official with the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in San Francisco apologized for posting an image on social media that drew criticism from a Muslim civil rights group. David Jennings, field office director for ICE in San Francisco, in a statement Friday said he was poking fun atÃâà...
BBC News
March 31, 2018
The UK's top police officer has blamed social media for normalising violence and leading more children to commit stabbings and murders. Met Police commissioner Cressida Dick told the Times social media sites "rev people up" and make street violence "more likely". Fatal stabbings in England and WalesÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
March 31, 2018
Teenage survivors of the war in Syria are using Facebook, Twitter and other social media to appeal for help from anyone willing to listen. The Syrian government's recent bombardment of Eastern Ghouta killed more than a thousand civilians, including 350 children. Fifteen-year-old Mohammed NajemÃâà...
Entrepreneur
March 31, 2018
It goes without saying that each generation rely heavily on social media as a primary means of communication. The social media platforms are increasing every year with more brands joining the trend of social network to win over the masses. For entrepreneurs, social media can become a weapon ofÃâà...
The Guardian
March 31, 2018
This isn't entirely new: the Obama administration started collecting social media information from select visitors towards the end of 2016. The Trump administration introduced tougher visa vetting last year, allowing officials to request information such as social media handles only when “such information isÃâà...
Sixth Tone
March 31, 2018
Instead of facing fines, those who disobey traffic laws in the southern city of Guangzhou can opt to make a public apology on social media, local media reported Wednesday. The offender's post must earn 20 likes or be posted in 10 chat groups. Since the beginning of March, traffic police have beenÃâà...
Hoops Hype
March 31, 2018
Kobe said it was his favorite moment with Shaq, and quickly added that he's thankful camera phones and social media didn't exist back then. That was a simpler time and today's NBA players don't have that luxury. Everyone has a camera phone and social media has made it easier than ever to interact withÃâà...
TNW
March 31, 2018
Social media echo chambers take a lot of grief. There's a popular perception that people get stuck inside their own biased worlds and become oblivious to the 'reality' the opposing side understands. But perhaps they're actually doing us a service in keeping us from becoming even more radical defendingÃâà...
New York Times
March 31, 2018
Nearly all applicants for a visa to enter the United States — an estimated 14.7 million people a year — will be asked to submit their social-media user names for the past five years, under proposed rules that the State Department issued on Friday. Last September, the Trump administration announced thatÃâà...
Telegraph.co.uk
March 31, 2018
Trivial disputes between children are escalating to murder "within minutes" due to the influence of social media, Britain's top police officer has said. Cressida Dick told The Times that the internet normalised violence, which is sped up by rivals goading each other on message boards. It comes amid a recentÃâà...
Irish Times
March 31, 2018
Social media is not bad in itself, just like the telephone or television or email isn't in itself bad. But the way it has come to be used by some people presents immediate challenges for some of our most important public institutions and processes. This is an enormous challenge for legislators, but it is one that they cannot duck.
The Detroit News
March 31, 2018
A federal judge in Detroit has dismissed lawsuit filed by families of three patrons killed in the Orlando nightclub massacre against Facebook, Google and Twitter. U.S. District Judge David Lawson dismissed the case Friday filed by the families of Tevin Crosby, from Saginaw, Juan Ramon Guerrero Jr. andÃâà...
Economic Times
March 31, 2018
In September, the Trump administration announced that applicants for immigrant visas would be asked for social-media data, a plan that would affect 710,000 people or so a year. The new proposal would vastly expand that order to cover some 14 million people each year who apply for nonimmigrant visas.
The Cipher Brief
March 30, 2018
The Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data exploitation crisis seems to be waking up a new wave of Americans to the fundamental downsides of our purposeful addiction to social media providers. Russia's information war, designed to foment domestic unrest, exposed more of us to the reality of onlineÃâà...
