by WorldTribune Staff, January 7, 2025 Real World News Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday said Facebook will no longer use third-party “fact-checkers” to police content. “We’re going to get back to our roots and focus on reducing mistakes, simplifying our policies, and restoring free expression on our platforms,” Zuckerberg said. “More specifically, here’s […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 25, 2024 At least 100,000 children are targeted by pedophiles every day on Facebook and Instagram, according to a recently unredacted complaint filed by New Mexico Attorney General Raul Torrez. Digital Content Next CEO Jason Kint pointed out in an X/Twitter thread that “most redactions just now removed in the New […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 17, 2023 Seattle Public Schools has filed a lawsuit against several social media companies, saying they have created a youth mental health crisis and interfere with teachers’ ability to do their jobs. The lawsuit was filed Friday against companies behind TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, SnapChat, and YouTube. The suit seeks compensatory damages […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 24, 2019 As Iranian citizens found it nearly impossible to get online over the past week, the Islamic Republic’s leadership was using their own social media accounts on Instagram with lots of followers thanks to Buzzoid to blast protesters and the so-called “outside forces” they blame for encouraging the protests. The […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 4, 2019 A Democrat staffer doxxing Republican senators who backed Brett Kavanaugh. A mob of Antifa thugs attacking a gay reporter in Portland. And, now, death threats against an 8-year-old girl. Welcome to the “tolerant” Left. After receiving death threats and harassing phone calls, the family of Ava Martinez has shut […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 8, 2019 The unfriend button is taking a pounding as political rage spreads like wildfire on social media, a networking and privacy firm said. A survey for Comparitech found that nearly 52 percent of social media users have wiped friends over political arguments. Overall, 44 percent unfriended somebody with opposite political […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 14, 2019 Facebook was down for users around the world on March 13. “We’re aware that some people are currently having trouble accessing the Facebook family of apps. We’re working to resolve the issue as soon as possible,” Facebook tweeted. The Facebook outages began Wednesday afternoon ET and appeared to affect people in multiple […]
CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE: Countdown: Top stories of 2018 by WorldTribune Staff, January 6, 2019 The grandson of longtime communist dictator Fidel Castro is flaunting his family’s wealth on social media with posts of him driving around in a BMW and enjoying lavish vacations while much of the population in Cuba struggles to find […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 20, 2017 Iraq’s Miss Universe contestant received death threats and her family was forced to flee the country after a selfie she took with Miss Israel went viral. Miss Iraq Sarah Idan said she “didn’t think for a second there would be blowback” when she posted the photo with Miss Israel […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 22, 2017 The dominance in the digital advertising market of the two social media Goliaths is only getting larger as the role played by independent, privately-owned media voices fade into near oblivion. The so-called “duopoly” enjoyed by Google and Facebook will account for 63.1 percent of digital advertising investment in 2017, […]
