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Tackling abuse on social media is a monumental task - but billion dollar companies should be up to it
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 15.3.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, cyberbullying, law, social media, threat
Summary | Social media have a huge problem with trolling, cyberbullying, and sharing of criminal content. It is however extremely difficult for providers to find such content before it is reported or seen by many. Especially in verbal abuse, the line between joking and slander is blurred and human language is too messy to be able to flag down such instances with algorhythms.
Image Description | Getty image of the Facebook logo on a hand-held smartphone and a laptop and a photograph of a screen showing the Twitter logo.
Image Tags | Facebook, hand(s), logo, Twitter
An app to stop a blazing row? No thanks...
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 20.4.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | online dating, addiction, threat, youth
Summary | There seems to be an app for everything nowadays, As if this generation of smartphone addicts needed to digitalize any more aspects of their lives. Our relationship were digitally invaded with Tinder ( a statistic says that 30% of people on there are married). Now there is even an app that monitors our emotional responses when fighting with our partner via a bracelet which functions as a stand-in robot counsellor.
Image Description | Alamy image of a fighting couple (woman verbally attacking man).
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)
Life looks good on the surface - so why are we all so lonely?
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 23.4.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | (mental) health, social media
Summary | Despite many people being very active and social on social media, very many often feel lonely. That is because social media cannot provide one with all aspects of friendship intimacy that humans need. Many people who seem to be living glorious lives on social media can in reality be much less happy because stress and rejection are not visible on their social media profiles.
Image Description | Portrait of the author and drawings of a woman holding a smartphone abstractly surrounded by 2D social media pages, two women having a meal together, and an old photograph of a girl looking at a framed picture/mirror.
Image Tags | female(s), smartphone
Controversial rights group teaches young Muslims how spies monitor social media
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 29.4.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | privacy, threat, WhatsApp
Summary | A dubious organization is teaching young muslims in the UK how authorities can spy on their digital communications. Government authorities are eager to intercept instant messaging communication to be able to avoid terrorist attacks but companies such as WhatsApp and Telegram are making their services encrypted and refuse to aid the government in their surveillance endeavors.
Image Description | Image of a screen close-up showing the WhatsApp and Facebook icon, portraits of dead terrorist attackers (once with a balaclava), and a Getty image of the GCHQ director (UK intelligence organization?).
Image Tags | Facebook, logo, male(s), WhatsApp
There’s an obvious reason why young people don’t use Snapchat for sexting.
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 6.1.2014
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | sexting, Snapchat, youth
Summary | Snapchat's reputation as being designed specifically for sexting does not make much sense, as its designer has been arguing all along. At first look it may seem that way because sent pictures self-destruct within seconds. That, however, is enough time to do a screenshot, so women do not trust it enough to use it for sending nude images. Men, on the other hand, do not like sextin on Snapchat precisely because it is difficult to save the pictures. So on second thought, the app is really not useful for sexting. It is a good alternative for social media because one's mundane content does not remain there to embarrass one later.
Image Description | N/A
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