Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, YouTube Form Global Working Group to Combat Terror Content

Social media giants Facebook, Google's YouTube, Twitter and Microsoft said on Monday they were forming a global working group to combine their efforts to remove terrorist content from their platforms.…

Facebook Video Creation App Launch Announced

With an aim to empower its creator community, Facebook has announced that it is planning to launch a new app just for them later this year. Essentially a video creation…

WhatsApp Privacy Policy to Be Examined by Supreme Court

HIGHLIGHTS SC earlier asked WhatsApp about its latest privacy policy SC would examine the 2016 privacy policy of the online messaging app WhatsApp in 2016 released it new privacy policy…

Facebook Updates News Feed to Curb Clickbait Stories

Facebook has announced three new updates so that people will see even fewer clickbait stories in their feeds, and more of the stories they find authentic. Clickbait describes web content…

Facebook Is Using AI to Make the Social Network a ‘Hostile Place for Terrorists’

HIGHLIGHTS Facebook is ramping up its efforts to curb online extremist content It plans to use artificial intelligence to detect and remove such content An algorithm is being built by…

Facebook Will Add Fundraising Option to ‘Safety Check’

HIGHLIGHTS Facebook to soon let US users to raise & donate money using Safety Check Safety Check will roll out in the coming weeks in the United States It was…

Twitter Unveils Blue Umbrella Emoji for This Monsoon Season

HIGHLIGHTS The Umbrella emoji went live on June 16 and will be active till August 31 #Monsoon2017, #Monsoon, #IndiaRains, #Baarish hashtags will trigger emoji this is the first weather-related emoji…

The Secret Social Media Lives of Teenagers

Earlier this week, Harvard University revealed that it had rescinded admissions offers to at least 10 students who shared offensive images within what they thought was a private Facebook group…

Can Social Media Have An Impact On Your Personal Injury Claim?

Increasingly, social media is becoming more ingrained and playing a bigger role in our lives. From travel and shopping to healthcare, relationships and even education, social media is impacting decisions…

No State Department Social Media Surveillance

EFF has joined a coalition effort, led by the Brennan Center for Justice, to oppose yet another federal program to scrutinize the social media accounts of foreign visitors to the…