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How to optimise Facebook to better your mental health

How to optimise Facebook to better your mental health

Prolonged Facebook use can cause unwanted stress and anxiety, but there are ways to change the experience to better suit your needs. Facebook has become a social media dinosaur over the last five years or so. Where once it was at the cutting edge of teenage and twenty-something online interaction, it has steadily gathered a reputation for being a fake news rollout machine that can significantly disrupt the status quo and...

By Bristol, UK
Bots are now hijacking users’ collaborative Spotify playlists

Bots are now hijacking users’ collaborative Spotify playlists

Just when you thought Spotify was the last peaceful place left on the Internet, bots have begun taking over the platform. Remember the days when we exchanged music by carefully curating tracks and burning them onto blank CDs, with track names, doodles, or handwritten notes on the surface of them in Sharpie? If you’re from the latter half of Gen-Z, you might not – but for the rest of us, this...

By London, UK
Twitter’s new β€˜Tor’ service can circumvent state internet censorship

Twitter’s new β€˜Tor’ service can circumvent state internet censorship

In regions where Twitter is partially or completely restricted, a new β€˜Tor’ service could soon allow people to circumvent censorship measures. This won’t be well received by certain government figures, but is a big win for online democracy. Twitter claims this move had been in the works since 2014, but the timing seems awful convenient. This week, the social media giant has announced plans to launch a version of Twitter that...

By London, UK
TikTok suspends video uploads & livestreaming in Russia

TikTok suspends video uploads & livestreaming in Russia

If social media platforms spread β€˜false information’ about the Russian military, Putin’s newly passed β€˜fake news’ law threatens fines and lengthy prison sentences. TikTok has responded by suspending all new video uploads throughout the region. The standoff between Big Tech and Russia is becoming more involved by the week. A widespread social media embargo to prevent the Kremlin state from pushing propaganda or profiting from ad space – involving YouTube...

By London, UK