by Beth Holmes | Aug 11, 2023 | Companies, News, Social Media, Technology
Rebranding Twitter as X is never going to catch on, despite Elon Musk’s recent and half-hearted efforts. Elon Musk has some kind of obsession with the letter X. He owns SpaceX, and there’s a Tesla Model X. He even named his son X Æ A-12 (pronounced either...
by Beth Holmes | Jul 10, 2023 | Companies, News, Social Media, Technology
Threads is a new rival to Twitter, about to be debuted by Facebook’s parent company Meta. The new listing for the Threads app, which appeared recently on Apple’s App Store, bills it as a “text-based conversation app” linked to Instagram. “Threads is where...
by Beth Holmes | Oct 3, 2022 | Companies, News, Social Media, Technology
Meta has disabled a Russian propaganda network which has targeted European social media users, spreading Kremlin-approved stories about the invasion of Ukraine. On Tuesday, Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, announced that they have identified and disabled the...
by Admin | Sep 19, 2022 | Companies, Social Media, Technology
Ireland has fined Instagram 405 million euro for poor data security practices concerning children. GDPR, or the General Data Protection Regulation, is a set of regulations in the European Union about protecting the information of individuals using websites, especially...
by Beth Holmes | Feb 21, 2022 | Companies, News, Social Media, Technology
The Texas AG is suing Meta over facial recognition data being collected without consent from photos and videos. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is claiming that Meta, formerly known as Facebook Inc, has been unlawfully collecting and storing biometric data of Texas...