One of the earliest investors in Facebook, Sean Parker, says that the platform was knowingly designed to be addictive. “God only knows what it’s doing to our children’s brains,” he added. Speaking at an Axios event, Parker – who was a founding president of Facebook – said” When Facebook was getting going, I had these people […]
It’s remarkable, isn’t it, as a very smart tweeter observed in response to this news, that just a few years ago the great and the good were applauding the power of twitter to facilitate political change on a scale previously unheard of. The Arab spring? Powered almost completely by social media. Barack Obama? The first […]
US President, Donald Trump, has used his address to the UN General Assembly in New York to blast social media companies for what he said was an attempt to “silence the voices of the people.”
Adrian Weckler in the Independent has the scoop: A combination of scandals and competition has hit Facebook usage in Ireland, new figures suggest. The online giant has seen the departure of as many as 300,000 people from its Irish user base in the last nine months, according to the company’s own sales statistics. 2.9 million […]
Strong words here, and newsworthy coming from one of the UK’s most visible transgender people. India Willoughby is a former ITV news correspondent (under her birth name of Jonathan Willoughby), and is well known for pioneering the cause of transgender visibility. Amongst other things, she is the first transgender woman to be a regular panellist […]