Millions of users around the world were left without Twitter

The official microblogging application Twitter stopped working on gadgets using the Windows Phone 8.1 operating system. The social network turned out to be inaccessible to millions of users around the world, Izvestia writes. Twitter announced the end of support for its applications on Windows 10 and Windows Phone 8.1 systems from June 1 this year. Besides…

Black Lives Matter's Facebook Defenders Movement Facebook page was fake

Black Lives Matter, a major African American rights Facebook page, turned out to be fake and was created by a senior union official from Australia. The page lasted about a year, writes CNN. The fake page had 700 thousand subscribers, which is twice as many as ...

Facebook collects data about calls and text messages.

After the scandal surrounding the data breach of 50 million users, in which Cambridge Analytica was involved, users began to delete accounts from Facebook and found that the social network stores more data about them than they expected, including inbound and outbound logs ...

Loneliness in the network: the American company sells bots and fake subscribers

Jessica Richley is a Minnesota teen with a wide smile and wavy hair. Jessica loves to read and rapper Post Malone. On Facebook and Twitter, she writes about how bored she is, or exchanges jokes with friends. From time to time, like many teenagers, he publishes duckface selfies. However, there is a variety on Twitter ...

How Facebook reveals family secrets and what the social network knows about us

One day, Kashmir Hill was scrolling through his Facebook recommendations feed and came across a woman named Rebecca Porter. The surname seemed familiar to the journalist, and after contacting his relatives, he found out that Rebecca was his second cousin, who lived in another part of the country, and about...

Facebook has changed the look of user accounts

If you haven't noticed the changes yet, pay attention to the information about you on your Facebook account, which is available to other users who are your friends. Now information about work and education will be fully reflected by default, that is, not only, for example, your current place of work, like ...

Facebook social network crashes

The social network Facebook was unavailable to users around the world on Monday. When trying to access a social networking site, the message “Sorry, something went wrong” appears. Facebook also does not work through the app on smartphones. The press service of the social network has not yet commented on the reasons...

In Russia, there was a dating service for finding a second wife

The first mobile "halal" dating service for Muslims has been launched in Russia - using the application, you can find a second wife or the first and only life partner who meets religious and national criteria. In this service, at the first stage of communication, users' photos cannot be seen: ...

Facebook launched a test project of news without hyperlinks

The social network Facebook began testing the publication of news media without hyperlinks. Facebook's "delicate" negotiations with publishers continued for several months. Nine companies, including NBC News and the New York Times (NYT), agreed to the deal, despite concerns that ...

Roskomnadzor is outraged that Twitter refuses to open user data

Roskomnadzor sent the administration of the microblogging service Twitter a request for clarification of the company’s position on compliance with the requirements of Russian legislation, agency representative Vadim Ampelonsky told TASS. “They sent it on Friday (February 13 – editor’s note),” Ampelonsky said, refusing to comment on the details of the document. Twitter problems in Russia...

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