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Victor Awogbemila - Mon, Jun 30, 2025
In what is now the latest state of the nation on the future of TikTok, President Trump has revealed on X(Twitter) that an anonymous group of "very wealthy people" is ready to buy TikTok, and he even expressed confidence that Chinese...
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Ben Funk - Sat, Sep 21, 2024
There's an old saying with social media: the users are the product. That used to mean that if you posted on a service like Reddit, then your data would be sold to advertisers, either individually or in aggregate. That has only become more...
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Tim Sweezy - Fri, Sep 20, 2024
A new Federal Trade Commission (FTC) staff report accuses social media and video streaming sites of engaging in vast surveillance of consumers in order to monetize personal information, while failing to adequately protect children and...
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Tim Sweezy - Tue, Aug 13, 2024
TikTok has been under fire from the US government for a while over the platform being owned by Chinese company ByteDance. While the US government aims to force the popular platform to sell to a US-owned company, or face being banned in the...
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Tim Sweezy - Mon, Mar 11, 2024
As more Americans are getting their news from TikTok, some are looking to buy the highly popular social media platform, while the government looks to shut it down if not purchased by an American company or individual soon. New reports...
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Tim Sweezy - Sun, Mar 03, 2024
Elon Musk inches ever closer to making X/Twitter the everything app he dreamed of, with the addition of audio and video calling directly within the app. Users of X should know as the feature rolls out to non-premium users on Android and...
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Nathan Ord - Mon, Feb 19, 2024
In the age of AI, companies are looking to get their hands on large amounts of diverse data to train models on, so they become more useable and proficient. In the case of OpenAI, this means scraping the internet for content to train up...
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Tim Sweezy - Mon, Feb 19, 2024
The European Union (EU) has set its sights on ByteDance’s TikTok app concerning a range of potential violations, including an overly addictive design, privacy shortfalls, and other concerns. EU industry chief Thierry Breton remarked the EU...
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Tim Sweezy - Thu, Feb 01, 2024
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg apologizes to parents of victims at a Senate hearing that has been interrogating Zuckerberg and four other social media executives and their roles in the safety of children on their platforms. Along with...
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Tim Sweezy - Sun, Jan 07, 2024
After 13-year-old Willis Gibson became the first-ever human player (read: not AI) to ‘beat’ the iconic video game Tetris, a news anchor unwittingly makes a fool of herself on live television. The young man had dedicated the game to his...
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Tim Sweezy - Mon, Jul 31, 2023
Mark Zuckerberg's Threads app has lost more than half of its 100 million users since its launch. The Meta CEO shared the news at a meeting with employees last week.
Threads started off strong, with more than 100 million people signing...
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Tim Sweezy - Mon, Jul 24, 2023
Elon Musk has shown off the new branding logo for the upcoming move from Twitter to Musk's self-proclaimed "everything app," X. While Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino praised employees and said the company was "moving at the speed of light" in...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Jul 06, 2023
Forget about the cage match between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, the real battle between these two technology moguls is for users in the high-stakes social media space. Only up until now, Musk, who owns Twitter, and Zuckerberg, who...
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Nathan Ord - Wed, Jun 07, 2023
Deepfake technology, or AI-manipulated videos, photos, or audio clips, has been on the rise over the past few years. While this tech has great applications in places like the film industry, it can also be used for nefarious things like...
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Tim Sweezy - Thu, Mar 16, 2023
The Biden administration is threatening to ban TikTok in the United States if Chinese owners do not sell stakes. The announcement came just ahead of the UK's ban of the highly popular app from government phones, citing security...
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Tim Sweezy - Wed, Mar 08, 2023
Meta is looking at bringing back its messaging capability to its primary Facebook app. The decision comes seven years after the company made the decision to separate the two.
In a recent blog post, Meta insists Facebook is not dying, in...
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Tim Sweezy - Tue, Feb 28, 2023
Snapchat has launched its own AI chatbot running the latest version of OpenAI's GPT technology customized for the platform. The new experimental feature is being rolled out to Snapchat+ subscribers this week.
AI chatbots have been all...
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Tim Sweezy - Thu, Feb 23, 2023
A metal sphere has become the focus of some humorous and wild claims as to what it might be on Twitter. Tweets have speculated that it might be a UFO, as well as a Godzilla egg.
The huge metal ball has left police and residents in a...
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Tim Sweezy - Thu, Feb 16, 2023
Hyundai and Kia are responding to a rash of car thefts in the wake of a TikTok challenge, which shows vehicles without push-button ignitions and immobilizing anti-theft devices were easy targets. Hyundai has already developed theft...
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Tim Sweezy - Thu, Feb 09, 2023
Since its beginning, Twitter has been known for its short and sweet Tweets. Many have appreciated not having to read Uncle Bernard's lengthy explanation of why he wears his tinfoil hat. When someone needed more characters to fully express...
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Tim Sweezy - Mon, Jan 09, 2023
It is not uncommon to find a young person deeply immersed in the latest trends on TikTok, or catching up on the latest YouTube post from their favorite content creator. While some may see this as a harmless way for youth to spend their...
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Tim Sweezy - Fri, Nov 18, 2022
Hundreds of Twitter employees are said to be exiting the company following an ultimatum from Musk to work "long hours at high intensity" or leave. Elon Musk already fired half of the workforce, including top management, and introduced a new Twitter Blue subscription plan in a bid to make the...
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