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Personal opinion disclaimers on employee’s own social-media accounts ‘have zero value’
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Personal opinion disclaimers on employee’s own social-media accounts ‘have zero value’
The digerati developed a monopoly on Americans’ attention, creating division, distrust and envy under the innocent guise of connecting us and making our lives better
As Europe faces a new wave of extreme nationalism, one of the last survivors of Auschwitz looks back
Tech giant’s international operation in Cork believed to be largest taxpayer in Republic
Facebook and Instagram have pulled the plug on AI avatars Grandpa Brian and Liv but their successors will soon flood our lives with lies on a hitherto unimaginable scale
Company employs about 2,000 people in Ireland
Apple, which employs 6,000 here, has asked shareholders to vote against move seen as courting favour with Trump administration
With grief bots, virtual bouquets and streaming of funerals now available to us, is technology making grieving processes easier?
Comments follow Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to replace fact-checking departments with company-moderated community notes
Move by company’s billionaire founder Mark Zuckerberg prompted alarm among social media experts
It is hardly an accident that the new policies are almost identical to those of Elon Musk’s X
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Company to rely on ‘community notes’ in free speech pitch
Technology has changed the way many of us consume information, from complex pieces of writing to short video clips
But that hegemony will end, perhaps soon. If you value good journalism and good design, give someone you love a newspaper subscription this Christmas
Friend had already sent money via Apple Pay when ruse was discovered
As the European home of some of the major tech players, the State has a crucial role in an area where tensions are likely with the US
Meta Platforms fine tied to 2018 data breach impacting 29m Facebook accounts globally
Examples of terrorist content can include photos of crime scenes glorifying terrorist acts, or posts or comments which incite, solicit or advocate for the commission of terrorist offences
Social media giant sees turnover near €70bn
Network, which grew from an off-shoot of Jack Dorsey’s Twitter, experiencing ‘growing pains’ of popularity as membership passes 15m
Facebook is undermining rivals by ‘tying’ its free Marketplace services with the social network, Brussels says
Many gardaí still calling for additional resources for open-source intelligence, particularly in investigations into online child sexual abuse
Sobriety may be trendy right now, but for me it’s been a much deeper personal shift
Coimisiún na Meán’s online safety code for video-sharing platforms contains echoes of the 2008 banking crisis
Monk from Tibet planted yew tree in garden, which has been more effective means of staying in touch
The company is targeting fraudsters and scammers who use the image of somebody well-known to fool people into clicking on a malicious website
Coimisiún na Meán’s code will affect all video-sharing platforms with EU headquarters in Ireland
Plan signals mobile phones – and by extension social media platforms – are detrimental to children. The question now is what the Government will do next
Increasingly confident investors looking beyond tech giants, suggesting reign may be over — for now at least
Social media group inadvertently stored certain passwords of social media users in ‘plaintext’ on its internal systems
‘Influencing’ didn’t exist as a career 20 years ago but it’s now one of the most popular, with ever-younger people aspiring to become the next big thing on social media
As more people question their smartphone use, some are consciously turning their backs on the virtual world in favour of real life
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