According to a public opinion poll conducted by the University of Haifa's political science faculty, about half of Israel's Jewish citizens agree that the authorities should monitor people on the Internet and social networks if this will help increase the level of state security. 53% of 470 respondents agreed ...
The founder of the largest Russian social network Vkontakte, Pavel Durov, got into a fight with street robbers who tried to take his phone in San Francisco. “Scary area? Not for a Russian guy,” Durov flaunts his abrasions on Twitter. According to available information, the 30-year-old programmer managed to defend the phone. The attack happened...
Hebrew University professor Sidney Engelberg woke up famous this morning. This happened after a photograph was published on the social network Facebook in which the professor was photographed during a lecture: with one hand he was gesturing, giving the lecture richness and emotionality, and with the other hand he was holding the baby with one of...
The question of why there is no Facebook office in Ukraine (the VKontakte social network, for example, has a Kiev office) was asked by many Ukrainian entrepreneurs who make money on social networks. But after the revolution, the issue became especially acute: more than once, Ukrainian users complained about injustice from Facebook, explaining ...
The matriculation exam is again under threat of disruption: on May 11, a few hours before the scheduled English exam, answers to questions appeared on social networks. Last week, on May 7, the Ministry of Education was forced to cancel the Hebrew language exam and ...
As a survey conducted by the New Wave company (Gal Hadash) showed, 75% of Israeli employees and managers exchange internal and sometimes secret work information in the WhatsApp application. The higher the user’s salary and education, the more often he exchanges official information via messenger. 97%...
The decree of President Lukashenko “On the Prevention of Social Dependency,” popularly nicknamed the “decree on parasites,” encouraged Belarusian users of social networks to create specific groups and communities. The “Party of Parasites,” created, as commentators write, on Facebook, by Monday evening had gained 1700 likes and…
Facebook has offered some media outlets to post their publications directly on the social network, that is, to read the materials, users will not have to leave Facebook. The company is already in talks with National Geographic, The New York Times and BuzFeed. To the deal already ...
The newspaper "Rural Worker", published in the Novosibirsk region, came to the attention of netizens after it forgot to remove the caption under one of the photographs of its issue: "Cut off the guy on the right, since he was not signed." The full caption reads: “At the opening of the sports club...
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...