Hours after 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 of the presidents of Russia and the United States, Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump at the GXNUMX summit in Hamburg, many posts appeared on social networks with jokes and collages dedicated to this event. One of the main topics of such publications is about ...
In one of the photos, Brittany's father, Jason Geiler, saw off his daughter on her first day of school. He did the same more than ten years later, taking her away on the last day of school. On May 25, Brittany shared photos of both events in ...
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 ...
Reports of a new "game" among schoolchildren, called the Blue Whale, prompted California police to warn parents of the potential risks of self-harm and suicide. Previously, warnings were issued by Miami police departments. Originally from Russia, Blue Whale is an online game in which young people must ...
President Donald Trump's decree banning citizens from 7 Middle Eastern countries from entering the United States has raised a lot of discussion in the media, sparked protests and injunctions. Despite all of this, Trump's senior adviser Stephen Miller told State Department, Customs and Border Protection officials ...