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 …
Read More »FBI Document Says the Feds Can Get Your WhatsApp Data — in Real Time
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 …
Read More »'Free Speech' Social-Media Apps See Enormous Growth After the Election
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 …
Read More »Why Did Facebook Keep a Man's Livestreamed Suicide Up for Hours?
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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