Social Media
TikTok Fined £12.7m By UK Data Watchdog
Embattled Chinese owned short-video-sharing platform TikTok has received a £12.7m fine from the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for breaching UK data protection law by failing to protect children’s privacy when using the TikTok platform. Notice Of Intent Issued Last Year The ICO issued TikTok Inc and TikTok Information Technologies UK Limited (‘TikTok’) with the ‘notice of…
Read MoreDealing With Social Media Addiction
With TikTok announcing new features for teens and families, including a 60-minute daily screen time limit, we look at the issue of social media addiction and ideas for tackling it. TikTok Time Limit (Short) video sharing app TikTok has just announced that every account belonging to a user below age 18 will automatically be set…
Read MoreTikTok Trouble?
Following the banning of Chinese short video sharing app TikTok from EU and US government devices, plus more trouble on the way in Canada, we look at some of the reasons why. Banned From EU Government Devices The European Commission recently decided to ban the TikTok app from staff phones (work and personal devices). EC…
Read MoreSocial Media Giants Sued For Mental Health Damage
Facebook, Instagram, and other social media sites may soon face lawsuits alleging that the way their algorithms work may be a factor in causing mental illness in some users. A Defective Product? In the US, a reported consolidation of lawsuits across multiple districts that are rumoured to be filed next month in the Northern District of California…
Read MoreTwitter Roundup
Here, we look at more of the rapid changes at Twitter, what the reaction has been, how this has affected the platform, plus the wider implications. All Change The beginning of Twitter’s (current) saga was when the world’s richest man, Tesla and SpaceX founder, Elon Musk bought shares in the social media giant back in…
Read MoreWhat Is Twitter’s ‘Blue Tick’ All About?
Following announcements that Twitter under Musk will generate revenue by blue tick subscriptions, we look at what this means and at the blue tick chaos that followed the announcement. What Is this ‘Blue Tick’ ? Twitter’s paid-for Blue service, launched last year, is a subscription service – $7.99 (£6.99) per month in the US, also…
Read MoreMeta Cuts 13% Of Its Workforce
Meta has announced that it is laying off a masive 13 per cent of its workforce globally in re-structuring market uncertainty about the Metaverse vision. Losses Lead To Layoffs Meta’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, announced the 11,000-employee layoff from Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, after Reality Labs, the division building the metaverse,…
Read MoreWhatsApp Launches ‘Communities’
Meta’s WhatsApp has announced the global rollout of it ‘Communities’ feature along with in-chat polls, 32-person video calling, and groups with up to 1024 users. Communities The Communities feature, for iOS and Android, allows users to connect multiple groups, e.g. schools, local clubs, non-profit organisations, and businesses together under one umbrella to organise group conversations…
Read MoreTikTok Tragedies
Following a BBC report which suggested that TikTok was making money from families in Syrian camps begging for donations on its platform, we take a closer look at what’s happened and what’s being done about it. The Report The much publicised, recent BBC report followed 30 TikTok accounts broadcasting live from Syrian camps for people…
Read MoreWhat Is OnlyFans?
In this insight, we look at what OnlyFans is, its features and benefits, and alternative platforms that offer similar services. What Is It? Launched in 2016, London-based OnlyFans is a subscription-based content hosting and sharing platform which has around 150 million registered users (according to its founder – although other estimates vary), and more than…
Read More