Enlarge / Five-star review. (credit: Getty Images | Khwanchai Phanthong | EyeEm) Amazon today said it can’t stop fake product reviews without help from social media companies, and it blamed those companies for not doing more to prevent solicitation of fake reviews. In a blog post, Amazon said its own “continued improvements in detection of […]
Enlarge (credit: Serhii Ivashchuk/Getty Images) Facebook is the most commonly used social media platform for human sex trafficking recruitment in the US, according to a new report published by the Human Trafficking Institute. Last year, 59 percent of victims in active cases who were recruited through social media were found through Facebook, the report states, […]
Remember when Mason Disick was THIS CLOSE to becoming a social media influencer?! About a year ago, as the coronavirus pandemic shutdown was reaching its full effect, Kourtney Kardashian and Scott Disick‘s then-10-year-old son surprisingly showed up in a TikTok video complaining about how his mom had deleted his fledgling Instagram account. Related: Mason Spills The Tea About […]
Enlarge / Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, speaks during during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando, Florida, on Friday, Feb. 26, 2021. (credit: Getty Images | Bloomberg) Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis yesterday signed a bill into law to stop what he called the “censorship” of conservatives on social-media websites such as Twitter and Facebook. […]
Enlarge / Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), during a Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee hearing on Jan. 21, 2021. (credit: Stefani Reynolds – pool | Getty Images) Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and a trio of her colleagues have reintroduced a bill to protect people’s privacy when their data is collected by big tech companies like […]
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Enlarge (credit: stockcam / Getty) Snapchat’s parent company, Snap, yesterday suspended two apps that allowed users to send anonymous messages to other users on the platform. The move came in response to a lawsuit filed Monday against Snap and the two messaging apps. The lawsuit seeks class-action status to represent all 92 million Snapchat users, […]
Could this be the end of Billie Eilish‘s social media reign? Maybe, because the performer just admitted that the massive, not to mention record-breaking, amount of attention her Vogue cover shoot received last week makes her NEVER want to post online again! The stunning photos, as you know doubt recall, stunned fans around the world […]
Enlarge / Before you tweet, you might be asked if you meant to be so rude. (credit: Getty Images / Sam Machkovech) Want to know exactly what Twitter’s fleet of text-combing, dictionary-parsing bots defines as “mean”? Starting any day now, you’ll have instant access to that data—at least, whenever a stern auto-moderator says you’re not […]
Enlarge / President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media on the South Lawn of the White House on Thursday, May 14, 2020. (credit: Getty Images | Bloomberg) Facebook’s quasi-independent Oversight Board announced its decision today to uphold the ban on former President Donald Trump’s account. In a ruling issued Wednesday, the board said […]