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Germany should order the messaging programme Telegram removed from Apple’s and Google’s app stores if it continues to ignore requests to help track down extremist content, a senior German official said on Tuesday. Telegram has been blamed in Germany for fuelling an increasingly virulent subculture of anti-vaccine conspiracy

Have you checked your Facebook News Feed recently? Watched a YouTube video? Posted on Instagram? Sent a Tweet? If so, you are among the 3.5 billion people worldwide who actively use social media. Social media users generate a massive amount of information, from personal posts, photos and

Fancy new features are fan-frickin’-tastic. But let’s face it: We aren’t all carrying Google’s shiny new Pixel phones. And we don’t all have Android 12 in front of our shiny faces just yet. With all of that in mind, I thought now would be a fine time

As people all over the country protest the police killing of George Floyd, social media has become the medium for amplifying marginalized voices, organizing and reporting events. It’s also where President Donald Trump and other politicians are responding. But in just the past few days, Twitter has

Our country is based on the foundation of freedom of religion, speech and the press. Everyone’s ideas have equal value and are judged on their own merit by each of us individually. Social media is becoming a dominant way of communicating ideas that shape our society. The

Yes, they should be. The more difficult question is how to do this effectively while differentiating between their various forms. Concerns about the public regulation of social media platforms emerged after the 2016 presidential elections in the U.S. and the U.K. with the Brexit referendum, and have been

  “I hear Mastodon is becoming popular in India now, that’s great news. Welcome everyone,” is the first post that greets your eye as you sign into Mastodon Social. This is the post of @Gargon aka Eugen Rochko, the 26-year-old German-born coder who founded the Internet mammal

White Hash Symbol Shape on Wooden Floor Against Blue Wall with Copyspace 3D Illustration Social media is not just a numbers game. It’s also not about a robot finding followers or even going viral. In the end, every company big or small has to learn the basic

It’s only natural that many investors, especially those who are new to the game, prefer to buy shares in ‘sexy’ stocks with a good story, even if those businesses lose money. But as Warren Buffett has mused, ‘If you’ve been playing poker for half an hour and

Smart home tech is nothing new — hobbyists have been geeking out over home automation for decades now — but in recent years, it’s marched closer to the mainstream than ever before. In recent years, high-profile connected home gadgets like the Amazon Echo, the Nest Learning Thermostat and the Ring Video