Since the advent of platforms like Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and others like them, companies have been trying to find the secret behind some of the internet’s most viral content in order to reproduce it for themselves and garner some major attention. While at times the types of content that spark …
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WASHINGTON — As Apple and WhatsApp have built themselves into multibillion-dollar behemoths, they’ve done it while preaching the importance of privacy, especially when it comes to secure messaging. But in a previously unreported FBI document obtained by Rolling Stone, the bureau claims that it’s particularly easy to harvest data from …
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Dave Wright, a Trump supporter based in Decatur, Illinois, was sick and tired of Facebook. A video he had posted in September of a woman reportedly being arrested for not wearing a mask was flagged for spreading misinformation, and last week during the election, a screengrab he shared hinting at …
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Joshua Steen wasn’t particularly surprised when he saw his friend Ronnie McNutt, 33, on Facebook Live on August 31st. “He often used a livestreaming platform as his form of therapy,” Steen tellsRolling Stone about his friend, who he met during a community theater production of Footloose and with whom he …
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Three of America’s biggest companies – Facebook, Wells Fargo and Uber – have been offering up vague apologies via television commercials in recent weeks. If you watch the Cavs-Dubs game tonight, you’ll probably catch one or all of them. Have a bucket handy. All three entities are apologizing for recent …
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Cambridge Analytica and its parent company Strategic Communications Laboratories (SCL) announced they are shutting down operations and filing bankruptcy, as Gizmodo reports. The company, which is at the center of the Facebook data scandaland connected to mining social-media profiles that may have been used to deliver targeted ads to likely …
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