Twitter and Facebook said Monday they had uncovered a campaign by China to use the social media platforms against pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong."We are disclosing a significant state-backed information operation focused on the situation in Hong Kong, specifically the protest movement and their calls for political change," Twitter said in an online post.Facebook said a tip from Twitter led to the removal of pages, groups and accounts originating in China and involved in "c

The price of Bitcoin surged recently after social media giant Facebook, unveiled its very own digital currency, Libra, in June 2019. The announcement came together with a white paper, ‘An introduction to Libra,’ which details the project’s vision.Facebook’s Libra is a cryptocurrency created for instant transfer with almost no fees to anywhere in the world.

A homegrown Vietnamese social media app was overloaded with users hours after launching as the one-party state tries to boost its own web platforms while tightening its grip on internet freedoms.Gapo has been billed as a local version of Facebook, which is wildly popular in communist Vietnam with more than 53 million registered users in the country of 95 million.But the social media giant, along with Google, YouTube and other global tech firms, is facing stricter scrutiny after a draconian cy

Nowadays nearly everyone either has a Facebook account or a Twitter account. Many, in fact, have both or even more. Social media has become something that most of the world cannot imagine life without. There are many advantages to using social media. Through social media, information can be obtained at your fingertips and in real-time, awareness of important issues can be spread faster than ever before.

Selfies, which have become a global sensation in the last decade or so, have remarkably killed five times more people than shark attacks.And the death toll has crept up incrementally each year as smartphones become more sophisticated and selfie-sticks increase the range at which people can snap themselves, prompting them to take bigger risks for the perfect shot.Between October 2011 and November 2017, at least 259 people died taking selfies around the globe, according to India's Journal

In the Philippines – where 76 million Internet users stay online the longest in the world – just a handful of people spend a few hours each day to fight fake news about the upcoming midterm elections.The Commission on Elections has formed a team of 10 government workers to spot and report misleading online posts to Facebook Inc., with whom the poll body has an agreement to quickly take down false information.