The unthinkable happened at around 19 p.m. ET Thursday evening: The US president’s Twitter disappeared from his favorite platform. President Trump's verified @ realDonaldTrump account was briefly deactivated. Everyone who went to his page saw the message: “Sorry, this page ...
The Department of Homeland Security began checking the social media of all immigrants, including those with residence permits and naturalized citizens. The new regulation, published in the Federal Register, includes "social media names, nicknames, associated personally identifiable information, and search results" in ...
Five-year-old Aden Huser was at a festival in Las Vegas with his family when gunfire and panic suddenly began. The crowd pulled him away from his aunt, with whom he was left after his mother and sister went to the toilet, in just...
In the hours following the mass shooting, internet trolls and pranksters began spreading misinformation and inappropriate jokes aimed at misleading the public, promoting their own platforms and laughing - despite the tragedy. Many of them worked, receiving hundreds of shares and likes...
This week, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released a message that got everyone's attention: The agency plans to pursue cases of immigrant social media activity, including those with residence permits and naturalized citizens. A new regulation published in the Federal Register calls for the inclusion of “names in ...
At Advertising Week in New York, Carolyn Everson, vice president of global marketing for Instagram, reported that the number of network users grew by 100 million in a month. This means that the photo-sharing app has 800 million monthly active users, by ...
Did you know that a social network may be able to listen to you even if you are not actively exchanging information or using a mobile application? In his book 1984, George Orwell spoke in detail about a dystopian world in which someone named "Big Brother" ...
On the eve of the first meeting between Russian and US Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump at the G20 summit in Hamburg, many posts with jokes and collages dedicated to this event appeared on social networks. One of the main topics of such publications is about...
The latest innovation, which allows the Department of State to request social media data from US visa applicants over the past 5 years, will lead to visa delays and increased denials, said Stephen Yale-Lehr, professor of immigration law at Cornell Law School. “In essence, the new form ...
The White House administration has approved a new US visa application form, according to which people can be asked for social media data over the past 5 years. This is reported by Reuters, which had a sample questionnaire at its disposal. App approved by the Office of Management and Budget of the US Presidential Administration ...