Isis threats against Facebook and Twitter demonstrate how much it relies on them
Cutting off Isis's access to mainstream social media could take a bite out of its exposure - and even its operations.
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New app “Being” pushes online voyeurism further than ever before
The app, and the impulses that inspired it, are proof that we don't just want to watch the people we…
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Facebook official: the rise and fall of the relationship status
In the Noughties, it was a relationship milestone. Now, it's just another dead feature. What happened?
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PewDiePie kicks off YouTube’s first premium web series
Scare PewDiePie is the first series on YouTube Red, Google's attempt to generate revenue for original web programming.
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Why Twitter is dying, in ten tweets
It's ironic that the most heated discussions of the platform's weaknesses are playing out on the platform itself.
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How Zayn Malik is challenging power dynamics with a retweet
Sharing fanart can be a radical act.
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#Match4Lara: How social media can overcome your biological odds
For mixed-race and BME people in search of a donor, survival can be a case of beating the statistics.
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New social app Peach will be successful if it can achieve the “networking effect“
Peach is simply further proof of how difficult it is to build a wide user base.
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Stop clicking on wacky conspiracy theory posts
A new study analyses how conspiracy theories and other "misinformation" content are shared online.
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This is everything bad that will happen to me in 2016
The best kind of predictions.
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Journalists need to stop exploiting children’s social media profiles
Children's rights are being breached in the race for content.
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Facebook has built up a list of your interests, and it’s probably a little weird
New Statesman staffers are apparently harbouring secret interests in alligators, DNA, and infiltrating the monarchy.
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Facebook’s safety check feature and the “whataboutery” of global conflict
When Facebook told us our friends in Paris were safe, it didn't take long for the questions to begin: What…
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It’s unlikely a Snooper’s Charter would have stopped the Paris shooters
David Cameron is using the Paris attacks as an excuse to rush through state surveillance legislation.
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What is the point of changing your Facebook profile picture to a French flag?
If you aren’t personally affected by the attacks in Paris, then putting a filter on your profile picture can look…
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The lies of Instagram: how the cult of authenticity spun out of control
Model Essena O’Neill has rebranded her Instagram account with "honest" captions, saying the platform is “not real life”. We asked Instagrammers…
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Facebook is ditching its “Other” inbox. What are we losing?
"Hello angel how are you doing over there?"
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This artist gave out all his login details and passwords to the public. Here’s why
Conceptual artist Mark Farid believes our online privacy is the only right we have left – and that’s why governments and…
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In defence of “over-sharenting”: post as many baby updates online as you like
Your friends on social media may scoff, but sharing your experience of raising a child is a feminist, and fundamentally…
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Facebook now lets you search everyone’s old posts – here’s how to stop it including yours
Facebook wants to be a news source, so it's made two trillion old posts searchable.
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