Who still falls for social media spam scams?
Researchers at Facebook have undertaken what they describe as one of the largest scale studies of spam clicking behaviour, to reveal what kinds of people still fall for social media spam scams and why.
Researchers at Facebook have undertaken what they describe as one of the largest scale studies of spam clicking behaviour, to reveal what kinds of people still fall for social media spam scams and why.
Under legislation proposed by the government, social networking services and web hosts could face fines if they fail to remove intimate images shared without the subject’s consent (so-called ‘revenge porn).
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has launched an inquiry into the effects of “digital platform providers” such as Facebook and Google on the media landscape.
Twitter has unveiled a new option for developers that want to interact with the social media platform.
Snapchat-owner Snap Inc has reported slower user growth than Wall Street expected and said it was redesigning the app
U.S. lawmakers, alarmed that foreign entities used the internet to influence last year's election, introduced legislation on Thursday to extend rules governing political advertising on television, print and radio to also cover social media.
Twitter plans to toughen its rules on online sexual harassment and impose stronger penalties for misconduct, according to an email it sent to a group of safety advocates, academics and researchers that helps the social media service set its policies.
AltspaceVR, a leading social virtual reality platform, and the first to gain a significant user base, has announced it is going out of business.
New Zealand’s health minister, Jonathan Coleman, has launched a project that will seek to establish if tracking trends on social media and using ‘unconventional data’ can help predict outbreaks and further improve responses to epidemics.
Australia’s federal, state, and territory police forces have partnered with Facebook to introduce a child abduction alert system to the social network.
Just a day after resolving a major outage to its online and mobile banking services, Westpac Bank has suffered from another systems failure, this time affecting EFTPOS, ATMs and card transactions.
Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft and YouTube have agreed to share with one another identifying digital information of violent terror content that they find on their platforms.
Twitter has swallowed social app developer Yes and is also getting a new product head as part of the deal.
NBN has announced it is one of the first enterprises to roll out Facebook’s business-focussed Workplace offering.
Twitter will reportedly loosen the reins on its 140-character limit on tweets as soon as next week.