Poll: Being Friendly to Neighbors Linked to Higher Well-Being
Adults in the United States who routinely greet multiple neighbors have higher well-being than those who greet fewer or no neighbors, a recent Gallup survey found.
Adults in the United States who routinely greet multiple neighbors have higher well-being than those who greet fewer or no neighbors, a recent Gallup survey found.
Gay Patriot, a popular conservative Twitter user, has been permanently blacklisted from the social network for undefined “hateful conduct.”
According to Bloomberg, “Twitter Inc. plunged to its lowest price in six weeks after short-seller Citron Research said it was betting against the company because of potential privacy regulations.”
Playboy has announced its departure from Facebook, removing its collection of pages, following user data mishandling allegations against the social network.
More than half of millennials are “seeking relief from social media,” according to a report.
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg has claimed that “not all interactions in social media are equally good for people in terms of their psychological well-being.”
LittleThings, a 100-employee-strong company which posted “feel-good stories and videos” on Facebook, has shut down following Facebook’s pivot away from publisher content to user posts.
A former Twitter executive claimed to Vanity Fair that the social network is “just an ass-backward tech company.”
A new proposal calling for greater transparency surrounding the sponsors of online politicals advertisements will be considered by the Federal Election Commission (FEC) next month.
Twitter’s stock spiked up 20 percent on better than expected profits Thursday, but then fell back to a 10.89 percent gain in late trading as analysts questioned the quality of its earnings.
Apple CEO Tim Cook claimed he didn’t want his nephew to use social media this week, criticizing “overuse” of technology.
Mainstream technology news outlet Wired has defended Twitter following Project Veritas’ exposé on the company, which revealed how the platform censors users and sells their information. In their article, Wired called Project Veritas’ investigation, which confirmed years of Breitbart Tech
Twitter has responded to Project Veritas’ undercover investigation, which revealed employees at the company boasting about censoring conservatives, by attacking the messenger.
Left-wing and mainstream technology news outlets ignored Project Veritas’ Twitter censorship exposé, which revealed Twitter employees admitting to censorship against conservatives this week.
Twitter direct messaging engineer Pranay Singh admitted to mass-banning accounts that express interest in God, guns, and America, during a Project Veritas investigation.
Twitter has removed the ability for conservative users to send out automated tweets using a service created by the Patriotic Journalist Network (PJNet). According to Slate, “The app helped users build tweets with prewritten text and pictures and allowed them
Breitbart Tech recently had the opportunity to speak to open source social network Minds’ founder Bill Ottman, who explained the differences between Minds and free-speech centric social media site Gab and discussed why Big Tech is failing.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg expressed regret at previously thinking that claims misinformation on his platform changed the election were “crazy.”
Advertisers are increasingly skeptical of using Facebook messages to connect to the public, even after Facebook took credit last week for squashing a couple of large spammer networks using fake accounts to generate automated bot “detection systems” and “friend” requests.
If Robin Leach visited the headquarters of Fibit, Inc. in San Francisco today, it would be all “champagne wishes and caviar dreams” as the leading wearable fitness tracker raised $793.5 million at a stunning valuation of $4.1 billion in the largest initial public offering (IPO) by any consumer electronics company in history.
Last fall, Sean Parker, the technology billionaire behind Napster, Facebook, and Spotify, invested several million dollars into a risky stealth startup, Brigade, which has the ambitious aim of increasing mass civic participation.