Downing Street is reportedly set to reveal the proposals for stricter age restrictions on social media apps within weeks.
Total ad spend rose six per cent in 2023 to £36.6bn, although this translated to a 1.2 per cent contraction after accounting for inflation.
You may have seen the viral video on social media of a road rage fight between a biker and a driver in the middle of a busy intersection.
Suppliers boast to undercover reporters about promoting illegal nitazenes, on SoundCloud and XLethal synthetic opioids linked to more than two deaths a week in the UK have been advertised for sale in thousands of posts on social media, an investigation has found.Suppliers boasted to undercover BBC reporters posing as dealers about how easy it was to use social media to promote nitazenes, an illegal group of drugs several times more powerful than heroin. Continue reading
Exclusive: Ethical standards command launches internal review as Guardian Australia unearths Facebook posts dating back yearsFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastQueensland police’s ethical standards command is conducting a review after high-ranking members of the service appeared to publicly share and comment on lewd social media posts over a number of years, including one about a sexual assault.From 2017...
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Hong Kong police have arrested a woman on suspicion of sharing test papers from the city’s university entrance examination online. The documents were leaked on Chinese social networking site Xiaohongshu, local media reported. A 23-year-old woman surnamed Lau was detained on Wednesday for allegedly breaching the Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority Ordinance, police said […]
Police responded after a Highland Park resident made a social media post implying the threat of violence alongside photos of guns, officials said. The City of Highland Park Police Department was recently made aware of a social media post made by a Highland Park resident who implied a threat of violence alongside photos of firearms, […]
Festus Akinbusoye, the PCC for Bedfordshire, was reprimanded for his comment. He was told to ensure he stuck to accurate data points when posting online
FEATURE (THE CONVERSATION) — The U.S. government moved closer to banning the video social media app TikTok on Apr. 23 after the Senate approved a $95 billion foreign aid bill. The bill includes a provision to force ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns TikTok, to either sell its American holdings to a U.S. company or […]
The unique relationship between social media and AI continues to develop in interesting ways, with Reddit’s recent deal with Google allowing their AI to train on its content, and tech companies’ sudden interest in once-popular social media sites like Photobucket. But there is a question looming in the background of these deals: Even if AI companies can train their models on social media, is doing so really such a good idea? AI companies have largely relied on the internet, especially...