News Google and Facebook “likely” to ban Australian news instead of paying for it by Samara Louise Facebook and Google plan to remove news all together from their Australian platforms, instead of paying news companies for their stories. A report titled “Tech-xit”…
News Politics Twitter, Facebook criticised for limiting the spread of controversial Joe Biden article by Happy Twitter and Facebook are facing criticism after preventing people from sharing a New York Post story alleging corruption by Joe Biden. Facebook and Twitter have…
News Pop Culture Facebook and Instagram messages merge: is this the death of ‘sliding into the DMs’? by Brendan Neville Facebook Messenger has merged with Instagram DMs, allowing cross-platform messaging on the apps for the first time, along with other new features. 2020 threw us…
Clocked News Oculus VR will soon require gamers to log in via Facebook by Briana Symons In an unpopular move, Oculus has announced that VR users will need to log in through Facebook when using their devices for the first time….
News Facebook is “actively promoting” holocaust denial content, study finds by Manning Patston Facebook have landed themselves in even more controversy, with new research proving that the site commonly recommends holocaust denial content to users. Looks like Facebook…
News Antitrust hearing: Zuck gets grilled and Bezos forgets to take himself off mute by Ben Hansen Yesterday, the US Congress held an antitrust hearing in which it questioned four big tech companies; Apple, Google, Amazon, and Facebook. The point of the…
News Mark Zuckerberg left in hot water as Facebook fails first-ever civil rights audit by Jayden Collins A scathing new audit has highlighted the failure of Facebook to address hate speech and the spread of misinformation on its platform, an omission which…
News This graphic designer has reimagined apps as if they existed in the ’80s by Claire Adema Have you ever wondered what our most popular apps would have looked like in the 1980s? Me neither, but this artist has given it a…
News Trump threatens to take down Twitter after being fact-checked by Happy US President Donald Trump has threatened to “strongly regulate” or close down social media platforms after Twitter applied a fact-check to two of his Tweets….
News Facebook to introduce new feature that allows artists to charge for online events by Nikki Rosen In response to the growing demand for live streaming, in an increasingly online world due to the coronavirus pandemic, Facebook plans to allow artists to…
News Hope Sandoval shares poem remembering David Roback by Claire Adema Hope Sandoval remembers David Roback in a new Facebook post. Roback recently passed away at age 61 to the dismay and sadness of fans everywhere….
News The UK decides to abandon the EU’s controversial ‘meme ban’ by Claudia Schmidt There’s that old proverb, “Every cloud has a silver lining.” Well, perhaps one tiny silver lining from the ever-unfolding mess that is Brexit is the UK’s…
News Science Revealed: science says Tom Waits fans are ‘open’, The Smiths fans are ‘neurotic’ by Stanley Widdison A study that was done in 2015 by Stanford University and Cambridge University Psychometrics Centre has been dredged up in the recent Cambridge Analytica scandal,…
