Shireen Mazari discusses fake news issue in meeting with Facebook team

By Shaoor Munir ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Shireen Mazari, Federal Minister for Human Rights, met with a delegation from Facebook, including the Vice President of Asian Pacific Public Policy for Facebook Simon…

Google clarifies that Hangouts is not shutting down

By Shaheryar Ehsan ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

A report from 9to5Google stated that Google Hangouts for consumers would soon be shutting down soon sometime in 2020. Their assumptions were based on the…

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You can now share Instagram stories to a close friends list

By Shaheryar Ehsan ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Instagram is rolling out a new feature that allows you to share your stories to a selected group of friends only. This is pretty much…

Hacker hacks 50,000 printers, asking users to subscribe to PewDiePie

By Muneeb Ahmad ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

A hacker has found a new way to urge people to subscribe to the YouTube channel of PewDiePie as the T-Series/PewDiePie row continues. Over the…

Taylor Swift is 2018’s most influential person on Twitter and she did only 13 tweets

By Muneeb Ahmad ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

The famous singer and songwriter from the US has been listed as the most influential person on Twitter from 2018 while tweeting only 13 times…

National IT Board and Facebook host workshop in Islamabad

By Shaoor Munir ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

On directives from the Special Assistant to Prime Minister Imran Khan on Media, Mr. Iftikhar Durrani, the National IT Board held a workshop (Connecting With…

Facebook might let users block certain words and phrases from their wall

By Abdul Wahab ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

The age of social media has brought a lot of controversies with it. When everyone is just a cluck away from writing what’s on their…

LinkedIn caught using unregistered emails to buy targeted Facebook ads

By Abdul Wahab ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Social media in recent times have under fire for violating Data protection laws, Google and Facebook have been particularly under severe scrutiny for not obliging…

Government decides to regulate social media in Pakistan

By Shaoor Munir ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

According to Federal Minister for Information Fawad Chaudhry, the government has decided to disband Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) and create Pakistan Media Regulatory…

A child bride was sold in South Sudan via a Facebook Auction

By Abdul Wahab ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Facebook has had a very tough year, they’ve had all sorts of troubles and many are beginning to question Facebook’s reliability and integrity as a…

Facebook and Instagram are down

By Shehryar Ahmed ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

The world’s largest social media platform, Facebook is down. Facebook-owned enterprise Instagram, which is the largest image-sharing platform of the world is down as well.…

Instagram will remove fake likes and follows with the help of machine-learning tools

By Abdul Wahab ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Fake likes and followers have been a common trend on social media platforms. Many people have bought fake likes and followers to popularize their accounts…

Apple CEO predicts a new tech regulation is coming for data protection

By Shaheryar Ehsan ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

In light of recent data breaches and the ever-growing influence of technology companies throughout the world, Apple CEO Tim Cook predicts that it is inevitable…

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