Month: January 2025

“Millions of connections” from social network X will be re-established on rivals BlueSky or Mastodon from Monday, a French researcher said, in a campaign timed to coincide with Donald Trump’s inauguration.This post was originally published […]

TikTok refugees fled by the millions to RedNote, a Chinese app, in response to the TikTok ban, which went into effect Jan. 19, 2025. The company shut down the app shortly before midnight on Jan. […]

Within five hours while sitting at home in India, retired professor Kamta Prasad Singh handed over his hard-earned savings to online fraudsters impersonating police.This post was originally published on this site

TikTok disconnected access to its users in the United States late Saturday shortly before a national ban on the app was to take effect, with President-elect Donald Trump unable to intervene until he takes office.This […]

Social media giant TikTok is preparing to shut down its app in the United States this Sunday—the day that legislation signed by President Joe Biden last year banning the app takes effect.This post was originally […]

Where will TikTok refugees go if the social media platform is banned?This post was originally published on this site

French researchers have developed an application to help users migrate their whole online community from Elon Musk’s X to rival social platforms such as Bluesky or Mastodon.This post was originally published on this site

Meta, the corporation that owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has announced that it not only plans to replace its professional fact-checking system with user-contribution, but also cut down on many of its diversity schemes in […]

The US Supreme Court grappled with a challenge on Wednesday to a Texas law requiring pornographic websites to verify visitors’ ages, part of a growing effort to limit access by minors to online sexual content.This […]