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China Orders Halt To Video Streaming On Major Websites

China's media oversight body announced Thursday that it has ordered three prominent Internet companies to terminate...

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Facebook Offers Indian Women Tools To Protect Privacy

Facebook has introduced new security features for women using the social media platform in India, including the ability...

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WhatsApp Rises As A Major Force In News Media

WhatsApp is becoming one of the prevailing ways people discover and discuss news, according to a study. But use of the...

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Instagram Stories Now Has 250 Million Daily Users

Instagram’s Snapchat Stories clone, aptly named Instagram Stories, is now being used by 250 million users every day....

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Sex Offenders Cannot Be Barred From Social Media

The US Supreme Court on Monday unanimously struck down a North Carolina law that barred registered sex offenders from...

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Man Jailed For Sharing Photo of Dead Grenfell Tower Fire Victim On Facebook

A man who posted pictures on Facebook of the body of someone believed to have leapt to his death from the Grenfell...

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US Singer Katy Perry Is First To 100m Twitter Followers

The US singer-songwriter Katy Perry has become the first person to reach 100m followers on Twitter. The website posted...

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Facebook Gives Bots Ability To Negotiate, Compromise

Facebook's artificial intelligence researchers announced Wednesday they had broken new ground by giving automated...

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Thai Police Bust 400,000 SIM Card Chinese ‘click Farm’

Three Chinese men were detained in Thailand on Tuesday after police discovered they were running a 'click farm' from a...

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Internet, Social Media Back In Ethiopia After Block

Ethiopia re-activated cellphone data services and unexpectedly allowed access to social media sites that had been...

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Facebook Pulls Down A Plus’ Account For Insulting Mahama?

Facebook has taken down the account of New Patriotic Party's Kwame A Plus. The businessman today made several...

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Police Cyber Unit To Arrest Persons Circulating Capt. Mahama’s Murder Videos

The Cyber Crime Unit of the Ghana Police Service has started monitoring social media netwoking sites as well as news...

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Government Shuts Down Internet Links Circulating Videos; Issues Warning

The government has begun removing graphic pictures and videos capturing the gruesome murder of Captain Adam Mahama from...

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Learn From Manchester Bombings; Stop Sharing Captain Mahama Pictures

The family of the late Captain Maxwell Mahama who was lynched at Denkyira-Obuasi has called on Ghanaians to stop...

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Facebook, Google Crack Down On Hate Speech

Facebook, Google and other US internet giants have sharply boosted efforts to clamp down on online hate speech, a top...

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Mark Zuckerberg Returns To Harvard To Collect Honorary Degree

Mark Zuckerberg teared up during his commencement speech to Harvard graduates, telling them it is up to their...

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How To Turn Facebook Friends To Real Friends You Can Benefit From

When I joined Facebook in October 2008, the idea was to connect with old friends and get to know what was happening in...

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13 Years After Quitting, Zuckerberg Gets (honorary) Harvard Degree

Thirteen years after dropping out of Harvard University to work on Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday finally got...

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Instagram’s New Feature Helps You Clean Up Your Profile Without Deleting

Any dedicated Instagrammer knows that a carefully curated profile is extremely important. Sometimes, that means you may...