Internet Freedoms Continue to Decline Amid Tech Crackdown

Freedom House releases an annual report on internet freedoms around the world, and this report has consistently shown a decline in freedom on the internet for over a decade. With all of that having been said and now out of the way, it is important to note that this year is no different, since the...

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New Study Reveals Facebook Is Not Fruitful For Local News

A lot of people get their news from social media accounts and profiles, with Facebook in particular being an important source of news for a lot of people. Such a phenomenon can be problematic because of the fact that this is the sort of thing that could potentially end up making it so that people...

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An AdBlocker Was Caught Ironically Injecting Ads Into The Browsers Of Other Users

A malicious browser extension meant to act as an ad-blocker was exposed and found to be injecting advertisements and referral affiliate codes inside Search results Cybercrime is experiencing wave over wave of increased incidence as every year, or even every month, goes by. While the current...

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Twitter to launch Ticketed Spaces for Android users in the United States and also introduce Topics tags under titles

With Spaces giving a hard competition to the original audio conversation platform called Clubhouse, Twitter is all set to launch some new and amazing features which will probably differ its Spaces feature from the rest of its competitors. Twitter back in June announced that they soon will be...

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TikTok introduces a new mute feature, to obstruct a particular commentator during live streams

TikTok introduces an updated new mute feature that will enable the host to barrier a particular viewer to comment during the stream. This declaration has been made in a post, released on Wednesday, October 13 in community guidelines enforcement reports. This mute option will foster the host to...

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Google updates the Mobile search results of US with unstoppable scrolling

A few updates which would make the usage of Google more flexible and easier includes that from now onwards whenever you come across the set of search results on your mobile devices it wouldn't further require an additional tap to go on the other (next) page but in replacement for this it would...

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Twitter's data shows Generation Z tweets more content as compared to other generations

If you go and ask any observant person about what they feel GenZ is like? They would probably use the word straight forward and unfiltered in whatever they say. It's just something with this new generation that makes them very unfiltered while speaking of different problems thus making their...

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