Last Friday Maggie Haberman, a New York Times reporter who has covered Donald Trump since 2016, announced via an op-ed that she was heavily cutting down on her Twitter usage. “Twitter has stopped being…
Mark Zuckerberg Finally Says Sorry – Is It Too Late?
Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg has broken his five-day silence on the Cambridge Analytica affair, telling users the company’s policies represented “a breach of trust between Facebook and the people who share their…
Snapchat Hack Affects 55,000 Users, in Latest Sting for Social Media Firm
Over 55,000 Snapchat users were hacked as part of a complex phishing scam, first flagged by a British government official in July last year. KLKViral, a website believed to originate from a…
Former Google and Facebook Staff Launch Anti-Addiction Lobby
A group of ex-Silicon Valley employees has formed a pressure group to educate Americans about the addictiveness of social media. The Center for Humane Technology (CHT), working alongside nonprofit Common Sense Media,…
Factmata Wins $1m More for its Fight Against Fake News
UK-based fact-checking startup Factmata has won a $1 million funding round. The company, whose 25-year-old founder Dhruv Ghulati drew headlines last year having successfully blind-pitched Mark Cuban, was given its latest round…
Jeff Bezos is the World’s Richest Person. Now He Should Buy Twitter
Imagine making $2.4 billion in a day. Jeff Bezos can. Above-average Amazon Black Friday sales landed him the figure, tipping his personal fortune over the $100bn mark, the first person to do…
The Top Politicians on Social Media
Barely a day passes without another Twitter storm courtesy of Donald Trump. Whether it’s haranguing news media or issuing self-congratulatory missives, the US President is surely aware that his tweets do not…
How One Woman’s Facebook Posts Became a “Lifeline” for a Besieged Philippine City
When dozens of armed militants stormed Narayan M. Ampang’s home city in the Philippines this year, she was as shocked as her government. It was May 23, and hundreds of ISIS-affiliated fighters,…
Google Couldn’t Buy Snap–Will It Beat It Instead?
The web sprang into life last week with the news that Google tried to buy social firm Snap for a whopping $30 billion last night, ahead of Snap’s most recent funding round.…
“Tech Has Reached the Point of Absurdity, But No-one’s Ready to Talk About It” – ‘Funny as Tech’ Matches Humor with Hot Topics
Robot global domination. Self-driving cars. Tinder profiles. They’re all exciting/terrifying/necessary. But aren’t they also…funny? Joe Leonardo and David Ryan Polgar think so – it’s why they recently started the Funny as Tech…