Social media has done a great job of creating disruption to what was once a money-hungry and egotistical industry: media and public relations. But the dust is finally settling. We’re starting to peel back the layers on the tweets, the engagement, the clicks, and the views, and it’s not the holy grail that many have […]
Facebook Takes Next Steps into Mind Control. Back in the 60’s, the CIA ran a covert program called ‘MKUltra‘, which was tasked with running human experiments for the purposes of developing drugs and procedures that would “weaken the individual and force confessions through mind control”. It sounds like the stuff of science fiction (which it incidentally has become), […]
Twitter Launches Lists as Alternate Swipeable Timelines on iOS. After first announcing its experiment with adding lists as alternate, swipeable tweet feeds back in June, Twitter is now rolling the option out to all users on iOS. As you can see in this example, users will now be able to pin up to five selected lists […]
Twitter Outlines New Financial Scam Policy. While Twitter has always had a spam policy in place, up till now, it hasn’t had a specific set of rules for financial scams and people using the platform in an attempt to dupe unsuspecting tweeters. Now, Twitter’s seeking to address this, with the introduction of a new set of rules focused on […]
Facebook Says That it’s Suspended ‘Tens of Thousands’ of Apps in Post-Cambridge Analytica Investigation Early last year, when the Cambridge Analytica scandal first broke, Facebook announced a full review of every app which could have possibly been granted the same data access that Cambridge Analytica had, in order to ensure that it plugged all the loopholes and addressed […]
