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The massive rise in popularity of social platforms has led to a huge upswing in social media scams — putting a growing pool of users at risk. Facebook had 2.23 billion monthly active users as of the second quarter of 2018, while photo-sharing site Instagram hit 1 billion monthly active

Amid recent mob lynchings and killings over fake news spread through WhatsApp and Facebook in the various parts of the country, the central government is apparently drafting new guidelines to make the intermediaries — social media platforms — more responsive to blocking fake news. As per reports, the government

SCALED-UP CYBERSTALKING. If you want to get to know someone on the sly, you might check out their Facebook profile. Hackers do the same thing when they’re gathering intel for phishing or malware attacks, but on a much larger scale. They use automated tools to gather information on hundreds

To New York mayor Bill de Blasio, Rupert Murdoch is directly responsible for Donald Trump. In fact, De Blasio argues, “if you could remove News Corp from the last 25 years of American history, we would be in an entirely different place”. In his view, without the malign influence

As MLB pitchers Sean Newcomb and Josh Hader face up to racist, sexist and homophobic tweets they sent as teenagers, publicist Lauren Walsh recalls how she dealt with a football player who had offensive Facebook posts years before he prepared for the NFL draft. She went through

Uganda will review a tax on the use of social media, the prime minister said on Wednesday, after a protest against the controversial measure was broken up by police firing live rounds and tear gas into the air. Prime minister Ruhakana Rugunda told parliament that President Yoweri

This tax will certainly affect our profession as public relations practitioners if several users fail to access social media due to failure to pay the tax. It also has a ripple effect on access to information, which is a human right; affects the speed and quality of

– Social media posts began circulating on Facebook about a possible kidnapping at Walmart on Maysville Road on Saturday, July 7th. The messages that NewsChannel 15 received stated that a co-worker’s niece was the intended target. NewsChannel 15 has reached out to the Walmart and did not get

Hundreds of social media accounts were shut down in 2017 after it was discovered they were being run by prisoners using illegally obtained mobile phones in jail, data obtained by the Guardian shows. The number of social media accounts deleted or deactivated because they were being updated

As predicted by ICT experts, Ugandans have found virtual private networks (VPN) the ‘ultimate solution’ to bypass paying the Shs 200 daily excise duty charge on Over-The-Top (OTT) services. The tax, christened ‘social media tax’ affects social media platforms such as Facebook, WhatsApp, LinkedIn, Instagram, Viber, Skype