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Social media sites failing to curb 'cottage industry' of fake reviews, Amazon says | On... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...-platforms-fake-online-reviews

ITGS DS social media media fake amazon reviews brokers

shared by dr tech on 19 Jun 23 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 19 Jun 23
     
    "Shoppers are being deceived because social media platforms and messaging apps are not doing enough to prevent a "cottage industry of fraudsters" soliciting fake reviews, according to Amazon. Fake reviews have become one of the most persistent scourges of online retailers, and some analysts think that about one in seven reviews in the UK are not the real deal, with blame often directed at groups that proliferate on Facebook. Last year Amazon alone blocked 200m fake reviews. Dharmesh Mehta, head of the company's customer trust team, said this avalanche of misinformation was harming consumers, who were being "deceived about what products they should or shouldn't be buying"."
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Nepal says it will ban TikTok, citing effect on 'social harmony' | Nepal | The Guardian - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...-tiktok-ban-social-harmony-why

ITGS DS ban tiktok social media censorship culture

shared by dr tech on 14 Nov 23 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 14 Nov 23
     
    "Nepal has said it will ban TikTok, citing negative effects on the country's "social harmony". The popular video-sharing platform, which has around a billion monthly users, has faced restrictions in many countries for alleged breaches of data rules and for the potentially harmful impact on youth of some content. "The decision to ban was made today, and relevant authorities are currently addressing the technical issues," the minister for communications and information technology, Rekha Sharma, said on Monday."
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'Making music is about making assets for social media': pop stars battle digital burnou... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...p-stars-battle-digital-burnout

ITGS social media music technology parasocial internet people and machines

shared by dr tech on 19 Feb 22 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 19 Feb 22
     
    "Ultimately, despite all the pitfalls of social media, there may be no going back. "Sometimes I wish the electrical grid would go down so I wouldn't have to do it any more," says Quin. "But we're in the maze and I don't know how to get out.""
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'Aims': the software for hire that can control 30,000 fake online profiles | Technology... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...e-disinformation-fake-profiles

ITGS DS internet profile social media fake online control

shared by dr tech on 18 Feb 23 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 18 Feb 23
     
    "At first glance, the Twitter user "Canaelan" looks ordinary enough. He has tweeted on everything from basketball to Taylor Swift, Tottenham Hotspur football club to the price of a KitKat. The profile shows a friendly-looking blond man with a stubbly beard and glasses who, it indicates, lives in Sheffield. The background: a winking owl. Canaelan is, in fact, a non-human bot linked to a vast army of fake social media profiles controlled by a software designed to spread "propaganda". Advanced Impact Media Solutions, or Aims, which controls more than 30,000 fake social media profiles, can be used to spread disinformation at scale and at speed. It is sold by "Team Jorge", a unit of disinformation operatives based in Israel."
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Social Media is a Major Cause of the Mental Illness Epidemic in Teen Girls. Here's The ... - 0 views

jonathanhaidt.substack.com/...-media-mental-illness-epidemic

ITGS DS social media epidemic teen evidence mental health wellbeing

shared by dr tech on 26 Feb 23 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 26 Feb 23
     
    "Taken as a whole, it shows strong and clear evidence of causation, not just correlation. There are surely other contributing causes, but the Collaborative Review doc points strongly to this conclusion: Social Media is a Major Cause of the Mental Illness Epidemic in Teen Girls."
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Social media and teen mental health: 10 things to know : NPR - 0 views

www.npr.org/...ial-media-affects-teens-brains

DS ITGS mental health teen social media

shared by dr tech on 02 Mar 23 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 02 Mar 23
     
    "Research suggests more than half of adolescents are on screens right before bedtime, and that can keep them from getting the sleep they need. Not only is poor sleep linked to all sorts of downsides, including poor mental health symptoms, poor performance in school and trouble regulating stress, Prinstein said, but "inconsistent sleep schedules are associated with changes in structural brain development in adolescent years. In other words, youths' preoccupation with technology and social media may deleteriously affect the size of their brains.""
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Pro-Bolsonaro violence: experts highlight role of social media platforms | Brazil | The... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...iolence-social-media-platforms

ITGS DS social media politics and government censorship control freedom

shared by dr tech on 10 Jan 23 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 10 Jan 23
     
    "The role of social media platforms and messaging apps in Sunday's political violence in Brasília is under the spotlight after experts highlighted their use by Jair Bolsonaro supporters to question the presidential election result and organise the protests. Facebook and Instagram's owner, Meta, has said it will take down content that praises the storming of government buildings in Brazil's capital, amid claims that tech firms had not done enough to head off the attacks or quell disinformation."
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'Fundamentally against their safety': the social media insiders fearing for their kids ... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...-kids-social-media-screen-time

ITGS DS social media instagram comments content

shared by dr tech on 20 Jan 24 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 20 Jan 24
     
    "For Bejar, the controls in place on social networks like Instagram are not sufficient because they turn "inherently human interactions into an objective assessment". There are too few options for users to hide content or flag comments and DMs and explain why it made them uncomfortable even if it doesn't violate Meta's specific policies, he said. "There's a question of how clearly bad does the content need to be to warrant removal? And that means you set a line somewhere and have to define a criterion where either a computer system or a human can evaluate a piece of content," Bejar said."
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'Sneaky' social media ads are luring young into gambling, say campaigners | Gambling | ... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...-into-gambling-say-campaigners

ITGS DS children social media gambling ads regulation

shared by dr tech on 19 Mar 24 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 19 Mar 24
     
    "The research has found many children do not even recognise these promotions, known as content marketing, as advertising. It warns that this may lead to children following betting companies on social media, making it more likely that they sign up with them when they turn 18 and can legally gamble. Dr Raffaello Rossi, lecturer in marketing at Bristol University, one of the report's authors, said content marketing was particularly popular with young people."
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Australia plans to ban children from social media. Is checking and enforcing an age blo... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...ban-age-limit-under-16-details

ITGS DS children block politics censorship ban privacy social media kids

shared by dr tech on 10 Sep 24 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 10 Sep 24
     
    "Australia plans to ban children from social media. Is checking and enforcing an age block possible? As the Albanese government pledges a ban, age verification trials in the UK and US show possible hurdles and privacy concerns"
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'You could single-handedly push it to extinction': how social media is putting our rare... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...ecies-capercaillie-birders-aoe

DS ITGS social media systems human knowledge media values and ethics environmental cultural

shared by dr tech on 28 Sep 24 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 28 Sep 24
     
    "'You could single-handedly push it to extinction': how social media is putting our rarest wildlife at risk"
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What the Telegram founder's arrest means for the regulation of social media firms | Tec... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...al-media-companies-pavel-durov

ITGS DS telegram social media technology encryption political

shared by dr tech on 28 Aug 24 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 28 Aug 24
     
    "So we've entered a world in which the CEOs of major social network are arrested and detained. That's quite a shift - and it didn't come in a way anyone was expecting."
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MPs to summon Elon Musk to testify about X's role in UK summer riots | Social media | T... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...on-musk-x-role-uk-summer-riots

ITGS DS x twitter social media expression political social systems power

shared by dr tech on 20 Nov 24 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 20 Nov 24
     
    "MPs are to summon Elon Musk to testify about X's role in spreading disinformation, in a parliamentary inquiry into the UK riots and the rise of false and harmful AI content, the Guardian has learned. Senior executives from Meta, which runs Facebook and Instagram, and TikTok are also expected to be called for questioning as part of a Commons science and technology select committee social media inquiry."
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Are Social Media Platforms the Next Dying Malls? It was cool to hang out at the mall-un... - 0 views

www.honest-broker.com/...ocial-media-platforms-the-next

ITGS DS enshittification social media dying culture

shared by dr tech on 18 Dec 24 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 18 Dec 24
     
    Are Social Media Platforms the Next Dying Malls? It was cool to hang out at the mall-until it wasn't
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Parents do have favorites - by Jacqueline Nesi, PhD - 0 views

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ITGS DS wellbeing social media science data health

shared by dr tech on 25 Feb 25 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 25 Feb 25
     
    "But what about social media posts that offer stories of hope and recovery? Could these types of posts actually prevent suicide? For this experimental study, researchers in Austria created 10 suicide-prevention social media posts from a fictitious influencer. The posts offered stories about recovery from suicidal crises, mental health tips, and life-affirming messages. A total of 354 adult participants were randomly assigned to view these posts, or to view 10 posts totally unrelated to mental health. As expected, participants who were exposed to the suicide-prevention posts reported decreased suicidal thoughts and greater intentions to seek help (e.g., from friends, family, or a professional). This was especially true for those who were already struggling with suicidal thoughts."
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With These New Digital Tools, Citizens Can Help Police Solve Crimes | Technology on GOOD - 0 views

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tools citizens police crimes technology ITGS metadata

shared by dr tech on 28 Apr 13 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 28 Apr 13
     
    As our connectivity increases, we're seeing a growing number of cases of law enforcement using social media and other digital tools to help solve crimes. A study from Accenture, a global management and consulting agency, showed that 72 percent of respondent citizens believe that social media can help in crime investigations and in the prosecution of offenders.
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Reclaim the Internet research reveals huge scale of social media misogyny | Technology ... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...-campaign-against-online-abuse

ITGS internet social media peopleandmachines authenticity anonymity policiesandstandards

shared by dr tech on 26 May 16 - Cached
  • dr tech on 26 May 16
     
    "To coincide with the launch, the campaign has released research by Demos revealing the huge scale of social media misogyny. The study monitored the use of the words "slut" and "whore" by UK Twitter users over three weeks from the end of April. It found that 6,500 individuals were targeted by 10,000 aggressive and misogynistic tweets in that period."
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BBC News - NatWest online services hit by cyber attack - 0 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...business-25262790

ITGS

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  • ails safe On Friday, a number of customers reported problems getting on to the bank's website, from which they normally access their accounts online. The RBS Group - which includes RBS, NatWest and Ulster Bank - said that NatWest was worst affected by the "deliberate" disruption. "Due to a surge in internet traffic deliberately directed at the NatWest website, customers experienced difficulties accessing some of our customer websites today," a spokeswoman for RBS said. "This deliberate surge of traffic is commonly known as a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. We have taken the appropriate action to restore the affected websites. At no time was there any risk to customers. We apologise for the inconvenience caused." She stressed that the latest incident was not connected to Monday's IT failure and no customer information was compromised at any time. The incident on Monday also affected cash machines and card payments and prompted an apology from the boss of the RBS group, Ross McEwan. More on This Story Big Banking Latest news EU fines banks over rate-rigging We've kept businesses alive - RBS Cable hands RBS file to watchdog Parties row over Co-op 'smears' JP Morgan in record $13bn settlement Police search home of Paul Flowers Barclays plans to cut 1,700 jobs $render("hyper-related-assets","group-title-1"); Basics Funding for Lending: How does it work? Q&A: Standard Chartered allegations HSBC report: Key findings Q&A: Basel rules on bank capital $render("hyper-related-assets","group-title-2"); Guides and analysis Shock: A banker can live on £1m salary RBS's new boss, Ross McEwan, will not receive any bonus for his first 15 months in the job, and won't pocket any bonus payments till at least 2017. When will banking ever change? Q&A: Banker bonus cap plan What has changed since the crisis? Explaining the Libor scandal Timeline: Libor-fixing scandal $render("hyper-related-assets","group-title-6");
  • Details safe On Friday, a number of customers reported problems getting on to the bank's website, from which they normally access their accounts online. The RBS Group - which includes RBS, NatWest and Ulster Bank - said that NatWest was worst affected by the "deliberate" disruption. "Due to a surge in internet traffic deliberately directed at the NatWest website, customers experienced difficulties accessing some of our customer websites today," a spokeswoman for RBS said. "This deliberate surge of traffic is commonly known as a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. We have taken the appropriate action to restore the affected websites. At no time was there any risk to customers. We apologise for the inconvenience caused." She stressed that the latest incident was not connected to Monday's IT failure and no customer information was compromised at any time. The incident on Monday also affected cash machines and card payments and prompted an apology from the boss of the RBS group, Ross McEwan. More on This Story Big Banking Latest news EU fines banks over rate-rigging We've kept businesses alive - RBS Cable hands RBS file to watchdog Parties row over Co-op 'smears' JP Morgan in record $13bn settlement Police search home of Paul Flowers Barclays plans to cut 1,700 jobs $render("hyper-related-assets","group-title-1"); Basics Funding for Lending: How does it work? Q&A: Standard Chartered allegations HSBC report: Key findings Q&A: Basel rules on bank capital $render("hyper-related-assets","group-title-2"); Guides and analysis Shock: A banker can live on £1m salary RBS's new boss, Ross McEwan, will not receive any bonus for his first 15 months in the job, and won't pocket any bonus payments till at least 2017. When will banking ever change? Q&A: Banker bonus cap plan What has changed since the crisis? Explaining the Libor scandal Timeline: Libor-fixing scandal $render("hyper-related-assets","group-title-6"); hyper-depth-st
  • 's website, from which they normally access their accounts online. The RBS Group - which includes RBS, NatWest and Ulster Bank - said that NatWest was worst affected by the "deliberate" disruption. "Due to a surge in internet traffic deliberately directed at the NatWest website, customers experienced difficulties accessing some of our customer websites today," a spokeswoman for RBS said. "This deliberate surge of traffic is commonly known as a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. We have taken the appropriate action to restore the affected websites. At no time was there any risk to customers. We apologise for the inconvenience caused." She stressed that the latest incident was not connected to Monday's IT failure and no customer information was compromised at any time. The incident on Monday also affected cash machines and card payments and prompted an apology from the boss of the RBS group, Ross McEwan. More on This Story Big Banking Latest news EU fines banks over rate-rigging We've kept businesses alive - RBS Cable hands RBS file to watchdog Parties row over Co-op 'smears' JP Morgan in record $13bn settlement Police search home of Paul Flowers Barclays plans to cut 1,700 jobs $render("hyper-related-assets","group-title-1"); Basics Funding for Lending: How does it work? Q&A: Standard Chartered allegations HSBC report: Key findings Q&A: Basel rules on bank capital $render("hyper-related-assets","group-title-2"); Guides and analysis Shock: A banker can live on £1m salary RBS's new boss, Ross McEwan, will not receive any bonus for his first 15 months in the job, and won't pocket any bonus payments till at least 2017. When will banking ever change? Q&A: Banker bonus cap plan What has changed since the crisis? Explaining the Libor scandal Timeline: Libor-fixing scandal $render("hyper-related-assets","group-title-6"); Your Savings
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  • and cash machines. Details safe On Friday, a number of customers reported problems getting on to the bank's website, from which they normally access their accounts online. The RBS Group - which includes RBS, NatWest and Ulster Bank - said that NatWest was worst affected by the "deliberate" disruption. "Due to a surge in internet traffic deliberately directed at the NatWest website, customers experienced difficulties accessing some of our customer websites today," a spokeswoman for RBS said. "This deliberate surge of traffic is commonly known as a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. We have taken the appropriate action to restore the affected websites. At no time was there any risk to customers. We apologise for the inconvenience caused." She stressed that the latest incident was not connected to Monday's IT failure and no customer information was compromised at any time. The incident on Monday also affected cash machines and card payments and prompted an apology from the boss of the RBS group, Ross McEwan. More on This Story Big Banking Latest news EU fines banks over rate-rigging We've kept businesses alive - RBS Cable hands RBS file to watchdog Parties row over Co-op 'smears' JP Morgan in record $13bn settlement Police search home of Paul Flowers Barclays plans to cut 1,700 jobs $render("hyper-related-assets","group-title-1"); Basics Funding for Lending: How does it work? Q&amp;A: Standard Chartered allegations HSBC report: Key findings Q&amp;A: Basel rules on bank capital $render("hyper-related-assets","group-title-2"); Guides and analysis Shock: A banker can live on £1m salary RBS's new boss, Ross McEwan, will not receive any bonus for his first 15 months in the job, and won't pocket any bonus payments till at least 2017. When will banking ever change? Q&amp;A: Banker bonus cap plan What has changed since the crisis? Explaining the Libor scandal Timeline: Libor-fixing scandal $render("hyper-related-assets","group-title-6"); <h4 cla
  • It came less than a week after a major computer failure left some customers unable to use cards and cash machines.
  • On Friday, a number of customers reported problems getting on to the bank's website
  • Due to a surge in internet traffic deliberately directed at the NatWest website, customers experienced difficulties accessing some of our customer websites today,
dr tech

Twitter ordered to reveal user behind parody JD Wetherspoon account | Technology | The ... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...-parody-jd-wetherspoon-account

twitter authenticity fake integrity

shared by dr tech on 14 Dec 18 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 14 Dec 18
     
    "The social network, which did not oppose the application, has until mid-January to comply. The parody accounts, @Wetherspoon__UK and @SpoonsTom, have tens of thousands of followers each on the social network, and tweet a mixture of fake updates about Wetherspoon's pubs and replies to users who mistakenly believe they are contacting the real company."
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Selfies Don't Kill People | Outside Online - 0 views

www.outsideonline.com/...s-social-media-not-the-problem

ITGS twitter social media selfie positive people and machines

shared by dr tech on 11 May 19 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 11 May 19
     
    "Every time I see a news story blaming a selfie for a death, I also see a missed opportunity. If social media was powerful enough to draw a person to that place, and inspire them to take a photo, then surely it can also be powerful enough to reach that person with a powerful message about responsible recreation."
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