Social Networks

TikTok Invisible Body challenge deployed to steal data

Security researchers have raised concerns about the personal risks of participating in the Invisible Challenge, a viral TikTok challenge that involves a person filming...

Musk says threats made him rescind on proposed content moderation council

Elon Musk's proposed amnesty plan for suspended Twitter users, despite previously promising to form a content moderation council before making any decision about reinstating...

Twitter users’ data leaks online

Utilizing API security flaws fixed in January, over 5.4 million Twitter user records containing non-public information were stolen through an internal bug and leaked...

Twitter rolls back official tag immediately after roll-out

A recently announced official label has disappeared, just days after Twitter announced the feature as a double verification label for select verified accounts, such...

Mastodon top one million monthly active users

According to CEO and lead developer Eugen Rochko, Mastodon, the decentralized, free, open-source microblogging social media platform increasingly positioned as an alternative to Twitter,...

Mastodon, the Twitter alternative

You're not alone if you're planning to leave Twitter after Elon Musk's takeover, but there's also an alternative called Mastodon that seems superficially similar...

Elon Musk wants $8 a month for Twitter verification

Twitter's Blue service, which comes with the verified badge, will cost $8 a month, according to new CEO Elon Musk, as he tries to...

Instagram accounts suspended due to a mysterious outage

At around 1.30pm UK time on October 31, Instagram experienced a strange outage that suspended thousands of user accounts. However, after a brief outage last...

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