Ailan Evans on October 4, 2021 Platforms owned by Facebook all experienced outages at the same time late Monday morning, and could not be accessed. Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp all went down Monday morning, according to outage tracking site Downdetector. Facebook was first reported down around 11:15 a.m., with reports peaking around 12 p.m. with…
In 2020, many of us have become accustomed to terms and concepts we never thought we’d be discussing: “social distancing,” mask requirements, and Zoom parties all come to mind. We can add Section 230 to that list, an obscure provision of the Communications and Decency Act (1996) that was previously unknown to most. Section 230…
Mary Margaret Olohan The boyfriend of Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez explained how to combat racism as a white person Friday. Riley Roberts, 30, chatted with his girlfriend, Ocasio-Cortez, about “combating racism as a white person” Friday night on her Instagram story, the New York Post reported. Roberts, who works as a web developer, met Ocasio-Cortez…
By Alexandra Hudson It’s the popular and fashionable thing to do these days — on both the political Left and Right — to name, shame, and blame the social media giants for the death of American democracy. The Left, still smarting from Donald Trump’s stunning victory in 2016, emphasizes the way in which social media…
In a hotly-worded USA Today op-ed last week, Senator Josh Hawley (R-Missouri) railed against social media sites Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. He argued that, “social media wastes our time and resources,” and is “a field of little productive value” that have only “given us an addiction economy.” Sen. Hawley refers to these sites as “parasites” and blames…
Chris White on May 3, 2019 Snoop Dog blasted Facebook in an Instagram post Thursday night after the social media giant banned Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan for promoting “hate.” Snoop Dog also instructed his 32 million followers to post Farrakhan videos on his Instagram ostensibly in a ploy to entice the big tech…
Chris White on April 21, 2019 Republish Reprint Sri Lanka blocked Facebook, Instagram and other forms of social media Sunday as the country investigates explosions that killed more than 200 people and injured another 400. The decision to block social media was taken in reaction to false news reports spreading on social media following the…
Representative Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) seems to think that President Trump’s decision to withdraw from never-ending wars in the Middle East is a bad idea. On Wednesday night, the Texas representative took to both Twitter and Instagram to criticize Senator Rand Paul, saying that he was giving President Trump “bad advice.” https://www.instagram.com/p/BsuEOg7ncFa/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link What was Crenshaw…
Chris White on January 16, 2019 A recent popular meme comparing the past and current profile pictures of people on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter could be a technique designed to capture a user’s personal data, experts warn. The so-called “10 Year Challenge” that invites people to compare their first profiles from a decade ago to their…
“What’s the Deal?” asks Cardi B. In a controversial Instagram post published earlier today the meteoric artist, Cardi B, expressed her displeasure with government fiscal policy. Watch here: Citing the lack of visible return on investment, this hip hop artist asks what many of us are thinking every year come tax season, “Where is my…