Former Google CEO, Who Paid $1.65 Billion for YouTube, Calls Social Media “Amplifier for Idiots”

Eric Schmidt has developed a bit of a reputation for his gaffs and faux pas, but it seems like the former Google CEO, who once wielded vast powers in the world of tech, has outdone himself with his latest hot take. According to Bloomberg, Schmidt has referred to social networks as “amplifiers for...

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US Government Report Mentions July Twitter Hack as a Sign That Regulations Are Required

Social media platforms may have seemed like a casual frivolity just a decade and a half ago, but nowadays they are really important communication channels that can usually make it so that the vast majority of people can stay in touch with one another and most people use them to stay up to date on...

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Instagram Gets New Product Tags for Ads in Preparation for Holiday Season

With Facebook and its subsidiary Instagram moving quite firmly into the territory of ecommerce recently, it has started to become quite important for these platforms to start maximizing their audience so that they can ensure that no matter what ends up happening they would be able to make a big...

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Facebook Releases Report on Scammer Crackdown

Facebook has a term for posts on its platform that are meant to misdirect, misinform or other manipulate its users. This term is “inauthentic behavior”, and it is split into two categories. The first is called coordinated inauthentic behavior, or CIB, and the second is simply called inauthentic...

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TikTok promises to remove and ban hateful content which is against the policies of the app

TikTok has gotten extremely popular these days and it is the first-ever social media application to have over a hundred million users in a very short period. But for the past few months, TikTok is facing a lot of hate and threats from different countries. India even banned TikTok while the US...

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PayPal Now Supports Bitcoin, Other Digital Currencies

Cryptocurrency has long been considered the future of money, and a big part of the reason why that is the case has to do with the fact that it is completely decentralized in every way, shape or form to the point where no one person would be able to have any form of serious control over it once all...

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