Thu 23 October 2023: The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media found that Meta – the company that owns Facebook and Instagram – is reaping financial benefits from the dissemination of harmful content on its platforms. The Palestinian digital rights group’s investigation was prompted by the discovery that Facebook ran targeted ads calling […]
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Tue 21 October 2023: When you use the internet, you leave behind a trail of data, a set of digital footprints. These include your social media activities, web browsing behavior, health information, travel patterns, location maps, information about your mobile device use, photos, audio and video. This data is collected, collated, stored and analyzed by […]
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Sun 19 October 2023: As major businesses like Disney and Apple left X, Elon Musk threatened to file a “thermonuclear lawsuit” against a US media watchdog that allegedly claimed advertisements were running alongside antisemitic content. Earlier this week, the watchdog group Media Matters for America revealed that it had discovered antisemitic content on X, the […]
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Sat 18 October 2023: Elon Musk, in one of his typical sweeping announcements about a policy change to X, formerly Twitter, claimed on Friday that the terms “decolonization” and “from the river to the sea” are euphemisms that “necessarily imply genocide,” and that using them on the platform might “result in suspension.” Both expressions are […]
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Fri 17 October 2023: For many of us, group chats are part of the texture of our social lives. These groups, formed on apps like Messenger or Whatsapp, can be as large as a hundred people or as small as three. We use them for organising one-off tasks or events, managing recurring coordination between groups like sports […]
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Thu 16 October 2023: Cyber-attacks are on the rise globally, with seriously negative implications for countries’ strategic, national, economic and social well-being. A cyber-attack can be defined as an unauthorised attempt – successful or not – to infiltrate a computer or computer system for malicious purposes. Reasons for such attacks vary from financial gain to espionage, […]
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Thu 16 October 2023: A groundbreaking technological advancement is being reported out of Beijing where Chinese entities have launched what they are calling the world’s most advanced and fastest internet network, boasting a data transmission rate of 1.2 terabits or 1,200 gigabits per second. China Mobile, Huawei Technologies, and Cernet Corporation unveiled the network which […]
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Wed 15 October 2023: Visitors to a Ukrainian news website on the evening of February 18 2022, were greeted by a familiar sight, a video of their president giving a speech. While the resemblance was there, the face seemed slightly out of sync with the head of the Ukrainian president. In the video, Volodymyr Zelensky announced […]
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Wed 15 October 2023: A Moscow court on Tuesday fined U.S. tech giant Google 15 million Russian rubles ($165,000) for violating laws on data localization. Under the law on localization, IT companies are required to store Russian users’ data on servers inside Russia. Google was also fined $3 million rubles in August 2021 under the […]
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Tue 14 October 2023: The US Justice Department’s antitrust trial has revealed that Alphabet’s Google pays Apple about 36 per cent of the revenue generated from search advertising through the Safari browser. According to a Bloomberg report, the disclosure by Alphabet’s main economics expert Kevin Murphy has brought attention to the closely guarded details […]
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