In a significant policy shift, Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and Whatsapp, has announced the termination of its third-party fact-checking program in…
Famed Chinese artist and dissident sends first tweets since arrest
Following what many had taken to be a regime-imposed silence, famed Chinese artist and dissident Ai Weiwei has returned to Twitter. Ai tweeted for…
Hack turns smartphone app into criminal tool
Hackers have shown how to turn mobile payment service Square into a convenient tool that allows criminals to pump cash from stolen credit card…
Indonesian court blames Facebook for increase in teenage pregnancies
A religious court official in Indonesia has blamed social networking site Facebook for a rise in teenage pregnancies and under-age marriages, a report said….
Google Realtime Search (kind of) makes a comeback with Google+
Google’s Realtime Search function is set to make a comeback, but with no tweets or Facebook status updates. It will, instead, be limited to…