After Twitter yesterday provided an updated overview of how its recent high-profile, Bitcoin-scam hack occurred, in which various celebrity accounts were taken over by the hackers, the FBI has today announced that a man in Florida has been arrested over the incident, while two others have been charged with assisting the crime. As reported by The Verge: “Early…
Are we close to saying goodbye to TikTok? On Friday evening, speaking to the press pool, US President Donald Trump said that TikTok would soon be banned in the US, sparking an outpouring of emotional responses from the app’s users, and a major surge in downloads of alternate video apps. The speculation prompted a response from…
Amid rising speculation about the future of the app, with authorities in several regions calling for potential restrictions due to its links with the Chinese Government, TikTok is looking to deepen its economic roots, in order to make it harder to justify removing it from circulation. Earlier this week, TikTok announced that it plans to hire 10,000 staff in…
This is the core question at the heart of calls to ban rising video app TikTok, which has come under increased scrutiny in several regions over its ties to the Chinese regime. To be clear, TikTok’s Chinese-owned parent company ByteDance is indeed beholden, under China’s cybersecurity laws, to share its data with the CCP, if so…
Amid ongoing speculation about the future of TikTok, Facebook is looking to heap more pressure onto the short-form video app by offering high-priced contracts to prominent TikTok creators in order to get them to share their content to Instagram’s Reels option instead. As reported by The Wall Street Journal: “Instagram has made lucrative offers to some of TikTok’s…
Twitter has once again raised the hackles of the Trump administration, this time by suspending the account of Donald Trump Jnr, the son of President Donald Trump, after Trump Jnr. shared a Breitbart video which claimed, among other things, that there is a ‘cure’ for COVID-19. As you can see in the above exchange, Trump…
While there’s no doubting the popularity of TikTok, as reflected in the apps rapid, ongoing growth around the world, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to know what the future holds for the app, with various investigations and considerations in play that threaten to stop the platform in its tracks and relegate it to the history books with…
As Twitter works to improve its approach to hate speech, the platform has today announced a new crackdown on right-wing conspiracy group ‘QAnon’. In addition, Twitter says that it will: “Permanently suspend accounts Tweeting about these topics that we know are engaged in violations of our multi-account policy, coordinating abuse around individual victims, or are attempting to…
Snapchat has reported its Q2 2020 performance update, showing increases in both users and revenue, and, in general, positive signs for the ongoing steady growth of the platform. First off, on users, Snapchat added 9 million new daily active users for the quarter and is now up to 238 million DAU. As you can see from…
When you consider the rapid adaptation of technology over time, you would expect that another social media platform would have risen up and taken the mantle in recent years, but Facebook, the looming giant in the space, has remained the most stable and powerful, seeing off all challengers thus far. According to Sprout Social’s ‘2020 critical social…