Elon Musk had an eventful year, capping it off with a nearly-failed $44 billion takeover of Twitter to close out 2022. It is uncertain what will become of Twitter in light of the contentious CEO’s changes, disruptions, layoffs, and resignations.
China is clamping down on social media comments, ordering all websites, apps and other platforms to seek political approval for public comments – including emoticons – under news stories before they’re published in the latest expansion of government censorship.
The Chinese social media platform WeChat is warning users outside China that their data will be stored on servers inside the country, RFA has learned
Authorities in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangsu are investigating a man after video of his mentally ill wife chained up by the neck in a rural outhouse prompted an online outcry on the country’s tightly controlled internet
The violent crowd that stormed the US Capitol on January 6 last year sparked action among social media companies in the United States. They took down President Donald Trump’s accounts at the time. Are Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube any better prepared to deal with similar situations in the United States or elsewhere a year later?
The question remains whether and how Facebook will change after internal Facebook documents were widely released with news organisations
Social media users have been berating China state-owned media, which is tightly controlled by the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP), over their failure to report on a deepening scandal surrounding a jailed Shanghai entrepreneur who raped and enslaved women, holding them captive in a brothel for the rich and famous
After A Bottle-Removal Trend Began This Week, UEFA Was Forced To Ask Players To Refrain From Taking Sponsor Bottles From Press Conferences. Ronaldo Initiated The Trend By Hiding Two Coca-Cola Bottles And Replacing Them With A Bottle Of Water During A Pre-Game Press Conference
China has been using social media networks like Twitter to spread positive propaganda about the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) since the start of the pandemic, according to a report published by an international press group
One of the major dynamics of the Internet is its ability to connect physically distant people, with different profiles and those with common job description, and educational lane. This global connectivity on the cyberspace, allows people to easily connect and interact with the use of social applications, which help public and private sectors reconfigure their systems