Slashdot Items Tagged "socialmedia"

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Friday March 15, 2024 @12:50PM Supreme Court Tosses Rulings on Public Officials' Social Media Blockings
Monday April 24, 2023 @11:26AM Supreme Court To Decide if Public Officials Can Block Critics on Social Media
Friday December 16, 2022 @12:01PM Tech Groups Ask Supreme Court To Review Texas Social Media Law
Friday November 04, 2022 @12:17PM Vietnam To Require 24-hour Take-Down For 'False' Social Media Content
Monday October 03, 2022 @10:24AM High Court Will Hear Social Media Terrorism Lawsuits
Monday May 23, 2022 @02:51PM Florida Law on Social Media Unconstitutional, Appeals Court Rules
Thursday April 21, 2022 @05:21PM Obama Says Social Media Falsehoods Spur Skepticism on Politics
Friday February 25, 2022 @09:12AM UK Social Media Users Could Get Power To Block Anonymous Accounts
Friday February 11, 2022 @11:31AM Researchers Warn That Social Media May Be 'Fundamentally at Odds' With Science
Monday September 13, 2021 @02:35PM Brazil's President Bans Social Networks From Removing Some Posts
Wednesday September 08, 2021 @03:16PM LAPD Officers Told To Collect Social Media Data on Every Civilian They Stop
Friday September 03, 2021 @01:39PM Feds To Close Unit That Monitored Americans' Social Media for Census Disinformation
Wednesday June 16, 2021 @10:28AM Amazon Blames Social Media for Struggle With Fake Reviews
Wednesday May 12, 2021 @02:16PM UK To Require Social Media To Protect 'Democratically Important' Content
Tuesday April 13, 2021 @03:20PM 'Why It's Easier To Move Country Than Switch Social Media'
Wednesday January 27, 2021 @12:51PM Social Media Damages Teenagers' Mental Health, Report Says
Thursday January 14, 2021 @04:08PM Is Letterboxd Becoming a Blockbuster?
Tuesday January 12, 2021 @12:50PM Uganda Orders All Social Media To Be Blocked
Tuesday November 24, 2020 @02:48PM Social Media Companies All Starting To Look the Same
Monday November 16, 2020 @12:00PM Obama Says Social Media Companies 'Are Making Editorial Choices, Whether They've Buried Them in Algorithms or Not'
Thursday July 23, 2020 @03:35PM Former Facebook Engineer Says That the Company Has Enshrined Failure in Its Policies
Tuesday July 07, 2020 @01:29PM US is 'Looking at' Banning TikTok and Chinese Social Media Apps, Pompeo Says
Tuesday June 23, 2020 @10:07AM K-Pop Stans' Trump Prank Ratchets Up the Internet Wars
Friday June 05, 2020 @11:45PM Reddit Co-founder Ohanian Resigns From Board, Urges Company To Replace Him With a Black Candidate
Tuesday June 02, 2020 @10:06AM Social Media Becomes Battleground Over Days of Street Protests
Tuesday March 31, 2020 @12:45PM Trump Won the Internet. Democrats Are Scrambling to Take It Back.
Thursday March 12, 2020 @05:17PM Senate Bill Seeks To Ban Chinese App TikTok From Government Work Phones
Monday December 30, 2019 @12:17PM French Court Clears Social Media Tracking Plan in Tax Crackdown
Thursday December 12, 2019 @11:40AM 'Link in Bio' is a Slow Knife
Wednesday December 11, 2019 @01:05PM Twitter Is Funding Independent Effort To Develop an Open and Decentralized Standard For Social Media
Tuesday December 10, 2019 @11:30AM A Social Media Influencer Will Serve 14 Years in Prison After His Plot To Take Over a Website at Gunpoint Backfired
Friday September 06, 2019 @02:25PM US To Collect Social Media Profiles From Immigrants, Asylum Seekers, and Refugees
Wednesday August 28, 2019 @02:44AM US Border Officials Are Increasingly Denying Entry To Travelers Over Others' Social Media
Tuesday July 02, 2019 @03:50PM Facebook Downgrades Posts That Promote Miracle Cures
Thursday June 27, 2019 @01:48PM Facebook: Our Terms of Service Are Less Confusing Now.
Tuesday May 28, 2019 @01:25PM US Navy Wants 350 Billion Social Media Posts
Friday May 17, 2019 @03:53PM TikTok is China's Most Important Export Right Now
Monday April 08, 2019 @10:44AM Facebook Are 'Morally Bankrupt Liars' Says New Zealand's Privacy Commissioner
Wednesday April 03, 2019 @02:29PM Linus Torvalds on Social Media: 'It's a Disease. It Seems To Encourage Bad Behavior.'
Monday April 01, 2019 @11:25AM Years of Mark Zuckerberg's Old Facebook Posts Have Vanished. The Company Says it 'Mistakenly Deleted' Them.
Saturday February 09, 2019 @12:24PM 'Why Data, Not Privacy, Is the Real Danger'
Wednesday January 23, 2019 @07:05PM Social Media Stars Agree To Declare When They Post Ads For Products
Tuesday December 25, 2018 @03:54PM Fortnite Was 2018's Most Important Social Network
Monday November 12, 2018 @01:30PM Researchers Say Social Media Can Cause Depression
Wednesday September 05, 2018 @11:14AM More Than 1 In 4 American Users Have Deleted Facebook, Pew Survey Finds
Sunday September 02, 2018 @11:50PM SAP Founder Hasso Plattner Fears the Scourge of Social Media
Monday August 06, 2018 @09:49AM Public Documents Reveal How the Branches of the US Military Are Instructed To Harness Internet Culture To Advance Their Own Messaging
Thursday August 02, 2018 @12:36PM The Expensive Education of Mark Zuckerberg and Silicon Valley
Monday July 30, 2018 @12:27PM Fake News 'Crowding Out' Real News
Monday May 21, 2018 @10:19AM Advocacy Groups Call for the FTC To Break Up Facebook
Tuesday May 08, 2018 @10:08AM Social Media Copies Gambling Methods 'To Create Psychological Cravings'
Thursday February 22, 2018 @06:03AM Twitter Updates Developer Rules in the Wake of Bot Crackdown
Friday February 16, 2018 @02:36PM US Charges Russian Social Media Trolls Over Election Tampering
Monday February 12, 2018 @12:06PM A Facebook Employee Asked a Reporter To Turn Off His Phone So Facebook Couldn't Track Its Location
Monday January 29, 2018 @12:41PM Florida Firm Sells Twitter Followers and Bots That Retweet Celebrities, Executives, and 'Influencers'
Friday January 26, 2018 @01:05PM Facebook Should Be 'Regulated Like Cigarette Industry', Salesforce CEO Says
Monday January 22, 2018 @08:23AM Facebook VP Says Company Won't Use Experts To Fix Fake News Because It is Worried About Criticism
Friday January 19, 2018 @03:22PM Tim Cook: 'I Don't Want My Nephew on a Social Network'
Thursday December 28, 2017 @09:53AM Mark Zuckerberg's Real Campaign: Save Facebook
Wednesday December 27, 2017 @09:23PM A Reporter Built a Bot To Find Nazi Sock Puppet Accounts. Twitter Banned the Bot and Kept the Nazis
Wednesday December 27, 2017 @12:43PM Vietnam Deploys 10,000 Cyber Warriors to Fight 'Wrongful Views'
Wednesday December 27, 2017 @10:36AM Obama Warns Against Irresponsible Social Media Use
Monday December 25, 2017 @03:57PM Russia's Putin Calls For Web Activities of Some Firms To Be Monitored
Monday December 25, 2017 @10:01AM Should Regulators Force Facebook To Ship a 'Start Over' Button For Users?
Wednesday December 20, 2017 @06:30PM The People Who Read Your Airline Tweets
Monday December 18, 2017 @11:38AM Twitter Rolls Out Stricter Rules On Abusive Content
Monday December 11, 2017 @08:53AM Former Facebook Exec Says Social Media is Ripping Apart Society
Wednesday December 06, 2017 @05:27PM EU Urges Internet Companies To Do More To Remove Extremist Content
Tuesday November 14, 2017 @04:44PM Thirty Countries Use 'Armies of Opinion Shapers' To Manipulate Democracy
Wednesday October 04, 2017 @11:00AM Steemit Is a Social Network That Pays You For Your Posts In Cryptocurrency
Monday October 02, 2017 @11:22PM Facebook Says 10 Million US Users Saw Russia-linked Ads
Friday September 29, 2017 @06:00PM Radical Leftists Built Their Own FOSS Alternative To Reddit After It Banned Them
Friday September 15, 2017 @01:58PM Social Media Site Gab Sues Google For Antitrust Violations Following Ban From Play Store
Thursday September 07, 2017 @04:40PM 67% of Americans Use Social Media To Get Some of their News
Friday September 01, 2017 @11:41AM Facebook Has Mapped the Entire Human Population of Earth
Thursday August 10, 2017 @12:08PM Facebook Launches Watch Tab For Video Shows, Uses TV's 75-Year-Old Marketing Pitch
Tuesday July 18, 2017 @04:25PM Nearly 90,000 Sex Bots Invaded Twitter in 'One of the Largest Malicious Campaigns Ever Recorded on a Social Network'
Thursday July 13, 2017 @11:57AM Europe Says Employers Must Warn Job Applicants Before Checking Them Out on Social Media
Friday June 30, 2017 @08:05AM Germany Approves Plans To Fine Social Media Firms Up To $57M
Thursday June 29, 2017 @04:35PM Twitter Detects Riots Faster Than Police, Study Says
Thursday June 29, 2017 @08:38AM Facebook May Finally Have To Compromise Its User Experience In Order To Keep Growing
Thursday June 01, 2017 @04:36PM Trump Administration Approves Tougher Visa Vetting, Including Social Media Checks
Monday May 22, 2017 @12:28PM Facebook Flooded With 'Sextortion' and Revenge Porn, Files Reveal
Monday April 24, 2017 @11:29AM Some of the Biggest Economies Aren't a Big User Of Social Media
Friday April 21, 2017 @03:53PM LinkedIn Apologizes For Trying To Connect Everyone In Real Life
Tuesday April 18, 2017 @02:49PM Facebook Adds a Login Shortcut To Other Android Apps
Friday March 31, 2017 @12:13PM Twitter Is Ditching the Egg
Friday March 31, 2017 @09:17AM 'Verified' Is Now a Derogatory Term on Twitter
Thursday March 30, 2017 @01:37PM Facebook Announces Crowdfunding Service To Back Causes Such As Medical Needs
Tuesday March 21, 2017 @12:24PM Twitter Suspended Hundreds of Thousands of Accounts Amid 'Violent Extremism'
Tuesday March 14, 2017 @02:16PM Germany Plans To Fine Social Media Sites Over Hate Speech
Monday March 13, 2017 @08:50AM ShatChat: How Facebook's Bizarre Obsession With Snapchat Is Ruining User Experience On Messenger
Wednesday March 08, 2017 @09:39AM Microsoft Is Closing the Social Network You Forgot It Ever Launched
Monday March 06, 2017 @11:31AM Social Media 'Increases Loneliness', Says Study
Thursday March 02, 2017 @02:32PM Instant Messaging App Snapchat-Maker Snap's IPO Opened Trading At $24 a Share, Making the Company Worth $33 Billion
Thursday February 23, 2017 @03:33PM Social Media Are Driving Americans Insane
Thursday February 23, 2017 @11:04AM 'Social Media Needs A Travel Mode'
Monday February 20, 2017 @02:53PM Of Course Facebook Is Putting a Snapchat Clone Inside WhatsApp
Friday February 10, 2017 @09:37AM How Tech Ate the Media and Our Minds
Thursday January 26, 2017 @01:44PM Twitter Scrambles For Next Big Feature, Bets On Merging Tweets, Hashtags, Moments
Tuesday January 17, 2017 @01:15PM Facebook's Price Tag For Oculus Actually $3 Billion, Zuckerberg Reveals in Court
Wednesday January 04, 2017 @03:09PM Zuckerberg Could Run Facebook While Serving in Government Forever
Tuesday January 03, 2017 @11:31AM Facebook Is Sorry for Taking Down a Photo of a Nude Neptune Statue
Monday January 02, 2017 @10:40AM All the Features Facebook Copied From Snapchat in 2016
Thursday December 29, 2016 @04:31PM Jack Dorsey Says Twitter Needs An Edit Function
Tuesday December 27, 2016 @02:02PM Facebook's Safety Check Activated For Fake Bangkok Bombing
Tuesday December 27, 2016 @10:09AM Turkey Says It's Investigating 10,000 Social Network Users
Monday December 19, 2016 @10:57AM Turkey Blocks Tor's Anonymity Network
Thursday December 01, 2016 @03:25PM Facebook Developing AI To Flag Offensive Live Videos
Wednesday November 30, 2016 @12:46PM Social Media Is Killing Discourse Because It's Too Much Like TV
Monday November 21, 2016 @01:55PM China Says Terrorism, Fake News Impel Greater Global Internet Curbs
Monday November 21, 2016 @12:26PM 'Quit Social Media. Your Career May Depend on It.'
Monday November 14, 2016 @03:53PM Internet Freedom Wanes As Governments Target Messaging, Social Apps
Monday November 14, 2016 @01:58PM Facebook's Fight Against Fake News Was Undercut by Fear of Conservative Backlash
Friday November 11, 2016 @10:54AM Mark Zuckerberg Says Fake News on Facebook Affecting the Election Is a 'Crazy Idea'
Friday November 11, 2016 @10:29AM Facebook To Stop Ads that Target, Exclude Races
Tuesday November 08, 2016 @03:46PM Ask Slashdot: Should Web Browsers Have 'Fact Checking' Capability Built-In?
Tuesday November 08, 2016 @10:59AM Facebook Puts Deep Learning in the Palm of Your Hand
Tuesday November 08, 2016 @10:44AM Twitter May Save Vine by Selling it
Tuesday November 08, 2016 @09:54AM US President Barack Obama Criticizes Facebook of Spreading Fake Stories
Friday November 04, 2016 @10:20AM Turkey Blocks Access To Twitter, WhatsApp, YouTube, and Facebook
Wednesday November 02, 2016 @12:17PM UK Auto Insurer Will Use Facebook Data To Set Premium
Thursday October 27, 2016 @10:12AM Twitter Is Cutting 9% of Its Global Workforce
Monday October 17, 2016 @11:58AM Journalists Face Jail Time After Reporting on North Dakota Pipeline Protest
Wednesday October 12, 2016 @03:23PM The Washington Post Tracked Facebook's Trending Topics For 3 Weeks, Found 5 Fake Stories and 3 Inaccurate Articles
Tuesday October 11, 2016 @01:08PM Facebook, Instagram, Twitter Block Tool For Cops To Surveil You On Social Media
Friday September 09, 2016 @04:11PM Facebook Features 9/11 Conspiracy Theory as 'Trending'
Tuesday August 30, 2016 @01:46PM Facebook Lets Users Prompt Danger Alert
Monday August 29, 2016 @04:06PM Facebook Is Telling the World It's Not a Media Company, But It Might Be Too Late
Monday August 29, 2016 @11:22AM Facebook Removes Fake Article About Megyn Kelly From Trending Topics
Friday August 26, 2016 @05:18PM Facebook Says Humans Won't Write Its Trending Topic Descriptions Anymore
Tuesday August 16, 2016 @12:49PM Your Political Facebook Posts Aren't Changing How Your Friends Think
Tuesday August 16, 2016 @12:01PM Metropolitan Police To Target Online Hate Crime and Abuse
Tuesday August 09, 2016 @11:11AM Facebook Will Force Advertising On Ad-Blocking Users
Friday August 05, 2016 @12:07PM Zimbabwe Military Threatens To 'Deal With' Social Media-Powered Protesters
Tuesday August 02, 2016 @10:40AM Instagram's New Stories Are a Near-Perfect Copy of Snapchat Stories
Friday July 29, 2016 @04:00PM Instagram Will Soon Allow Users To Filter Comments
Wednesday July 27, 2016 @12:41PM Olympics Committee Says Non-Sponsors Are Banned From Tweeting About the Olympics
Tuesday July 26, 2016 @11:49AM Pop Star Tells Fans To Send Their Twitter Passwords, But It Might Be Illegal
Saturday July 23, 2016 @01:44PM Salesforce CEO Told LinkedIn He Would Have Paid Much More Than Microsoft
Thursday July 21, 2016 @02:41PM Facebook Took Its Giant Internet Drone On Its First Test Flight
Wednesday July 20, 2016 @11:28AM Facebook Messenger Hits 1B Monthly Active Users, Accounts For 10 Percent Of All VoIP Calls
Friday July 15, 2016 @03:33PM Facebook Makes Little Progress in Race and Gender Diversity
Monday July 11, 2016 @02:24PM Facebook Sued for $1 Billion for Alleged Use of Medium for Terror
Thursday July 07, 2016 @12:52PM Facebook Decides Which Killings We're Allowed to See
Wednesday July 06, 2016 @02:26PM Facebook Lays Out Blueprint For Connecting Hard-To-Reach Rural Areas
Wednesday July 06, 2016 @01:53PM Snapchat Introduces Memories: a Searchable, Shareable Archive of Your Snaps
Monday July 04, 2016 @11:16AM China Bans the Use Of Social Media As a News Source
Friday July 01, 2016 @10:00AM Why Twitter Can't Even Protect Tech CEOs From Getting Hacked
Wednesday June 29, 2016 @02:38PM Facebook Tweaks Its Newsfeed To Better Showcase Posts From Friends Instead Of Publishers
Tuesday June 28, 2016 @03:24PM Here's How Pinterest Plans to Get You To Shop More
Tuesday June 28, 2016 @11:19AM Facebook Backtracks, Now Says It Is Not Using Your Phone's Location To Suggest Friends
Thursday June 23, 2016 @03:08PM Facebook Offers Political Bias Training In Wake Of Trending Controversy
Sunday June 19, 2016 @03:58PM New Ransomware Written Entirely In JavaScript
Thursday June 16, 2016 @04:55PM Now Advertisers Are Watching Your Emojis On Twitter
Thursday June 16, 2016 @11:18AM Facebook Will Track What Physical Stores You Go Into
Wednesday June 15, 2016 @03:21PM Executive Says Facebook Will Be All Video, No Text In 5 Years
Monday June 13, 2016 @09:07AM Microsoft Is Buying LinkedIn For $26.2 Billion
Saturday June 11, 2016 @10:35AM Facebook Threatens To Delete Users' Photos If They Don't Install Moments app
Tuesday June 07, 2016 @10:35AM Huge Vulnerabilities In Facebook Chat and Messenger Exploitable With Basic HTML
Monday June 06, 2016 @10:23AM Over 100M Accounts of Russia's Largest Social Network VK On Sale
Friday June 03, 2016 @02:37PM Instagram's New Algorithm That Puts the Best Posts First Goes Live For All
Saturday May 28, 2016 @11:25AM Mark Zuckerberg Is Dictator Of Facebook Nation; There's No Democracy Online: The Pirate Bay Founder
Saturday May 28, 2016 @09:21AM 62% Americans Get News On Social Media
Friday May 27, 2016 @03:45PM Someone In North Korea Is Hosting a Facebook Clone
Friday May 27, 2016 @02:45PM Hackers Claim to Have 427 Million Myspace Passwords
Friday May 27, 2016 @10:46AM Facebook Begins Tracking Non-Users Around the Internet
Friday May 20, 2016 @09:52AM China Fakes 488 Million Social Media Posts a Year To Deceive Its Citizens
Tuesday May 17, 2016 @12:53PM Face Recognition App Taking Russia By Storm May Bring End To Public Anonymity
Thursday May 12, 2016 @01:47PM Internal Docs Show Human Intervention at Almost Every Stage Of Facebook's News Operation
Tuesday May 10, 2016 @01:22PM Senate GOP Launches Inquiry Into Facebook's News Curation
Monday May 09, 2016 @09:40AM Parents Could Be Sued By Their Kids For Posting Pictures of Them On Facebook
Friday May 06, 2016 @04:51PM 'Boaty McBoatface' Polar Ship Named After Attenborough Despite Less Votes
Friday May 06, 2016 @02:29PM Facebook's Newest Privacy Problem: 'Faceprint' Data
Saturday April 30, 2016 @06:24PM US Spy Court Didn't Reject a Single Government Surveillance Request In 2015
Saturday April 23, 2016 @05:33PM 'I Hacked Facebook -- and Found Someone Had Beaten Me To It'
Monday April 18, 2016 @03:10PM Twitter Appoints Chief In China With Former Chinese Military Ties
Saturday April 16, 2016 @12:17PM Facebook Promises It Won't Mess With Voters' Minds
Friday April 15, 2016 @03:30PM Facebook Employees Ask Mark Zuckerberg If They Should Try To Stop a Donald Trump Presidency
Friday April 15, 2016 @09:44AM CIA Is Investing Heavily In Firms That Do Social Media Mining and Surveillance
Tuesday April 12, 2016 @01:36PM Facebook Launches 'Agents On Messenger' Platform With Chatbots
Monday April 11, 2016 @11:14AM Top Tech Firms Urged To Step Up Online Abuse Fightback
Friday April 08, 2016 @11:15AM Facebook Users Are Sharing Less and It's a Big Problem
Thursday April 07, 2016 @01:52PM Facebook Messenger Hits 900M Monthly Active Users; To Get Snapchat-Like Features
Sunday March 27, 2016 @08:46AM Messaging Giant Line Becomes a Phone Carrier in Japan
Saturday March 26, 2016 @09:12AM Heavy Social Media Users Trapped In Endless Cycle of Depression
Saturday March 12, 2016 @12:07AM Twitter Can Predict Hurricane Damage As Well As Emergency Agencies
Friday May 18, 2012 @07:59PM Golden Age of Silicon Valley Is Over With Facebook IPO
Friday December 30, 2011 @10:55PM Is Twitter Aiding and Abetting Terrorism?
Thursday July 21, 2011 @10:32PM Facebook Is Most Hated Social Media Company
Tuesday December 21, 2010 @11:38AM WikiLeaks Continues To Fund Itself Via Flattr
Tuesday November 30, 2010 @07:40PM Facebook's 'Like This' Button Is Tracking You
Sunday October 10, 2010 @10:31PM Of 1.2 Billion Twitter Posts, 71% Are Ignored
Thursday September 30, 2010 @11:10PM Exploits Propagated Via Social Media Increase
Wednesday September 29, 2010 @08:38PM "Pre-Crime" Comes To the HR Dept.
Thursday September 16, 2010 @09:58PM Social Media Can Help You Fake Your Own Death
Wednesday June 30, 2010 @09:23PM Fark Creator Slams 'the Wisdom of Crowds'
Friday March 19, 2010 @10:16PM "Moot" Working On Reboot of 4chan Platform
Thursday March 04, 2010 @10:53PM China's Human Flesh Search Engine
Wednesday March 03, 2010 @07:39PM Narus Develops Social Media Sleuth