Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced last week that his government plans to ban minors from social media use and will conduct an age verification trial in the upcoming months as a first step. “We know social media is causing social harm, and it is taking kids away from real friends…
Johannesburg, South Africa – Anita Odunyao Solarin, a 21-year-old Nigerian who has spent her entire life in South Africa, finds it safer not to disclose her West African roots. She does her best to assimilate with her peers and rarely volunteers her origins. This, she says, shields her from persistent…
Tech giant’s announcement comes days after Washington unveiled sanctions against Moscow-backed outlets. Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, has announced a ban on RT and other Russian state media, citing the outlets’ alleged involvement in foreign interference operations. “After careful consideration, we expanded our ongoing enforcement against Russian state…
TikTok and parent company ByteDance argue that a potential ban would violate the right to free expression for US users. Lawyers for the social media app TikTok and parent company ByteDance are squaring off in court with the United States Justice Department over a potential ban that the companies say…
Former Married At First Sight bride Martha Kalifatidis has slammed the idea she’s not paying her way. The 36-year-old, who lives at home with her parents, her partner Michael Brunelli and their toddler son Lucius, was doing a typical Q&A on Instagram when a troll claimed she was mooching off her mom and…
Billionaire Elon Musk has decried a ban on X in Brazil, where the social media company failed to comply with court orders. Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes has unfrozen the bank accounts of the social media platform X and the satellite internet company Starlink after ordering the transfer…
Ronaldo surpasses 639 million followers on Instagram, 170 million on Facebook, 60 million on YouTube and 113 million on X. Portugal football icon Cristiano Ronaldo has attracted more than one billion followers across his social media accounts, aided by his newly launched YouTube channel, which has generated more than 60…
Tech billionaire’s comments prompt rebuke from Australian officials. Tech billionaire Elon Musk has branded the Australian government “fascists” over proposals to fine social media companies that fail to stop the spread of misinformation online. Under proposals by Australia’s centre-left Labor Party government, platforms could be fined up to 5 percent…
Last week, the United States Department of Justice unsealed an indictment accusing a Tennessee-based company, believed to be Tenet Media, of accepting millions of dollars from the Russian state-owned media outlet RT and promoting “pro-Russia propaganda and disinformation across social media to US audiences”. Tenet was responsible for high-profile right-wing…
The Spirit Airlines employee who went ballistic on passengers at a California airport in July has revealed what made her lose her cool alongside her supervisor after they were both canned over the incident. “Every single day, I feel really bad that I did it,” former Spirit Airlines customer service…
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