German ministers have approved plans to fine social media firms up to 50m euros ($53.3m; £42.7m) if they fail to remove hate speech and fake news quickly. The proposed law would give the companies 24 hours to block obviously criminal content after it had been reported, and seven days for other offensive material. However, a … Read more
Facebook on Wednesday unleashed a new weapon in the war against “revenge porn” at the leading social network as well as the messaging services Messenger and Instagram. When intimate images shared on Facebook without permission are reported, confirmed and removed, the company will use photo-matching technology to prevent copies from being shared on its platform … Read more
Facebook is taking fresh action to prevent so-called revenge porn from being spread across its platforms. The social network is making it impossible to repost or share intimate images of people thought to have been uploaded without their permission once they have been identified as such and removed. The measure is being rolled out across … Read more
play videoAngkaarama David with others in the video One of Ghana’s private universities owned by the Seventh Day Adventist Church, Valley View University has been severely trolled on social media over poor ‘commercial’ video. The one minute sixteen seconds video which was posted by one facebook user Kwadwo Sheldon has garnered over 89K views, over … Read more
A 14-year-old boy has been arrested in Chicago in connection with the alleged sexual assault of a 15-year-old girl that was streamed on Facebook Live. The boy faces charges of aggravated criminal assault and manufacturing and disseminating child pornography. He was not named because of his age. The girl was allegedly assaulted by five or … Read more
Police in Chicago arrested a 14-year-old boy in connection with the alleged gang rape of a teenage girl that was broadcast on Facebook Live, police and local news reported. “CPD arrested 1st of several juvenile offenders in Facebook sexual assault incident,” police department spokesman Anthony Gugliemi wrote on Twitter late Saturday. The boy, who is … Read more
Twitter on Thursday began rolling out changes to let people pack more into tweets, subtracting from the character count names of those being replied to in posts. The latest software modification at the one-to-many messaging service comes about a year after Twitter set out to relax a 140-character limit set due to mobile phone text … Read more
The new app was launched at the Economic Outlook and Business Strategy Conference held at the Tang Palace Hotel on last Wednesday. The Vice President challenged the stakeholders in the financial industry to mobilize efforts to achieve interoperability in order to achieve total financial inclusion. The Mazzuma app enables users to receive and send mobile … Read more
The professionalism and ethical conduct of the Ghana Police Service is being questioned following a twitter user’s terrible experience at a police check point at Dzorwulu in Accra. The user in a series of tweets on Monday [March 27, 2017] narrated how a police officer at the Dzorwulu check point made his way to forcibly … Read more
The professionalism and ethical conduct of the Ghana Police Service is being questioned following a twitter user’s terrible experience at a police check point at Dzorwulu in Accra. The user in a series of tweets on Monday [March 27, 2017] narrated how a police officer at the Dzorwulu check point made his way to forcibly … Read more
The professionalism and ethical conduct of the Ghana Police Service is being questioned following a twitter user’s terrible experience at a police check point at Dzorwulu in Accra. The user in a series of tweets on Monday [March 27, 2017] narrated how a police officer at the Dzorwulu check point made his way to forcefully … Read more
The professionalism and ethical conduct of the Ghana Police Service is being called to question following a twitter user’s terrible experience at a police check point at Dzorwulu in Accra. The user in a series of tweets on Monday [MArch 27, 2017] narrated how a police officer at the Dzorwulu check point made his way … Read more
Twitter has begun surveying members on a paid subscription service that would give frequent users more tools for using the social network for marketing, journalism and other fields. The survey this week showed Twitter is looking at building a more powerful version of Tweetdeck, the dashboard that many use to manage their accounts. An upgraded … Read more
Twitter has begun surveying members on a paid subscription service that would give frequent users more tools for using the social network for marketing, journalism and other fields. The survey this week showed Twitter is looking at building a more powerful version of Tweetdeck, the dashboard that many use to manage their accounts. An upgraded … Read more
Twitter is considering adding a paid membership option for businesses and power users. The micro-blogging service, which has struggled to grow its user base in recent years, is carrying out surveys to “assess interest” in the idea. Paying members would get access to an enhanced version of Tweetdeck, Twitter’s souped-up interface that offers more functionality … Read more
Chicago police on Wednesday were looking for up to six suspects who allegedly raped a teenage girl and broadcast the assault on Facebook Live. The incident took place after the 15-year-old went missing Sunday. She was found two days later. Chicago’s police chief became personally involved in the case after the girl’s mother approached him … Read more
The alleged sexual assault of a 15-year-old girl by five or six males was streamed on Facebook Live, according to Chicago Police. Around 40 people were said to have been watching the stream at one point but nobody reported the incident to police. A police spokesman said authorities first learned of what happened after the … Read more
Apple has launched a red version of its iPhone 7 and 7 Plus as well as a new video app for iOS. The red iPhone celebrates Apple’s 10-year partnership with Red, an organisation that aims to combat Aids. A video app for iOS, called Clips, has also been revealed and will be released with iOS … Read more
Twitter announced on Tuesday that it had suspended 376,890 accounts in the second half of 2016 alone amid growing calls for internet companies to prevent the spread of hate speech online. All in all, the microblogging platform blocked a total of 636,248 accounts from August 2015 as it sets out to combat “violent extremism.” Twitter … Read more
Image-curation website Pinterest has become the latest social media service blocked in China, checks on censorship monitoring websites indicated Friday. According to greatfire.org and blockedinchina.net, the popular virtual bulletin board service has been unavailable in mainland China since last Thursday. The San Francisco-headquartered service joins rival photo-sharing firm Instagram — which has a much larger … Read more