Trump-backed Twitter alternative Truth Social suffers 93% drop in downloads NEW YORK — The truth is hurting. Tribune News Service · Mar 31, 2022
Twitter reacts to Bears signing safety Dane Cruikshank The Bears have signed S Dane Cruikshank, also known as the "tight end eraser." That alone has Bears fans excited about his addition. USA Today Sports Media Group · Mar 30, 2022
Trump’s Truth Social sign-ups have cratered ‘by 93 per cent’ since app’s launch Former president has yet to post on his own app The Independent UK · Mar 30, 2022
Odisha MP Prasanna Acharya demands censorship of OTT platforms BHUBANESWAR: BJD MP Prasanna Acharya on Wednesday demanded a law to censor contents on the OTT platforms and web channels. The Times of India · Mar 30, 2022
Algorithms, bots and elections in Africa: how social media influences political choices The rise in the use of smartphones and an increased adoption of mobile internet in Africa are fundamentally altering the media ecology for election campaigns. The Conversation · Mar 30, 2022
Black Lives Matter protests are shaping how people understand racial inequality Considered to be the largest social justice movement since the civil rights era of the 1960s, Black Lives Matter is more than the scores of street protests organized by the social justice group that attracted hundreds of thousands of demonstrators across the world. The Conversation · Mar 30, 2022
Dogecoin Fall Steeper Than Bitcoin, Ethereum Today — Is 99% Crash In Influencer's Token Weighing It Down? Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE) traded 2.4% lower over 24 hours at $0.14 early Wednesday morning. Benzinga · Mar 30, 2022
Bristol web developer creates bot to help people get lateral flow tests Dave McNally’s program sends out alerts on Twitter for when LFTs are available to order in UK The Guardian - UK · Mar 30, 2022
Wave of support for Tory MP who came out as trans and said they were raped Jamie Wallis took to Twitter in the middle of the night to share a heartbreaking statement Liverpool Echo · Mar 30, 2022
How China's TikTok, Facebook influencers push propaganda China’s state media reporters are positing as travel bloggers and lifestyle influencers on U.S.-owned social media platforms such as Instagram, Facebook and YouTube The Independent UK · Mar 30, 2022
Ukraine-Russia updates: Mariupol mayor's office says hundreds of children are among 5,000 people killed in Russian assault Almost 5,000 civilians — including 210 children — have died in Mariupol since Russia's invasion began, according to a spokesman for the city's mayor, with the UN also saying there could be "thousands of deaths" in the besieged city. ABC News · Mar 29, 2022
‘Let me be me’: Elon Musk quotes Eminem in legal battle over marijuana jokes on Twitter ‘They tried to shut me down’, Musk’s lawyers argued in court comparing his treatment on Twitter to Eminem on radio The Independent UK · Mar 29, 2022
Twitter bot network amplifying Russian disinformation about Ukraine war, researcher says A massive global Twitter bot network is amplifying pro-Russian disinformation about Ukraine as part of an online information war, researchers say. Here's how they found it, and what Twitter is doing in response. ABC News · Mar 29, 2022
Instagram DOWN as thousands of users report issues with social media app The Instagram down reports began surging after 6pm UK time Manchester Evening News · Mar 29, 2022
The Independent UK · Mar 29, 2022 Twitter users keep tagging the wrong Will Smith over Oscars altercation with Chris Rock Non-famous Will Smith has gained more than 100,000 followers since the incident
Benzinga · Mar 29, 2022 Why An Indian Court Is Questioning Twitter Over Donald Trump Ban Twitter Inc (NASDAQ: TWTR) has come under fire in India for not doing enough to stop disparaging posts centered around Hindu gods.
The Guardian - US · Mar 29, 2022 America is entering the great experiment of hybrid work Companies will need to find a new model that works for them and their employees – many of whom prefer to work at home some days
The Guardian - UK · Mar 29, 2022 How do you stop fake news about Covid? Not by silencing scientists who ask difficult questions Whatever Twitter was doing when it banned the Oxford epidemiologist Carl Heneghan, it wasn’t protecting the world from disinformation, writes Zoe Williams
Dublin Live · Mar 29, 2022 Huge reward offered to find missing dog Aki went missing in the Drumcondra area on June 28 last year
The Times of India · Mar 29, 2022 Delhi HC asks Twitter to reveal its blocking policy NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court asked Twitter Monday to furnish its policy on blocking users posting objectionable content, saying the platform is not bothered about the sensitivities of people from “other regions” and ethnicities.
Benzinga · Mar 29, 2022 How SocialFi Can Speed Up Web 3.0 Adoption By Philip Gunwhy, Partner and Brand Strategist at Blockasset.co, the first verified athlete NFT ecosystem built on Solana (CRYPTO: SOL)
Benzinga · Mar 28, 2022 Check Out What Whales Are Doing With TWTR Someone with a lot of money to spend has taken a bearish stance on Twitter (NYSE:TWTR). And retail traders should know. We noticed this today when the big position showed up on publicly available options history that we track here at Benzinga.
The Independent UK · Mar 28, 2022 Twitter issue resolved after outage for some users in Europe The social media platform said an ‘external access issue’ had been fixed.
Daily Mirror · Mar 28, 2022 Twitter down: Thousands of users report issues with website and mobile app Issues on Twitter began at around 1pm on Monday in the UK with more than 4,500 reports of problems, according to the service status website Down Detector