Indonesia has officially banned business transactions on social media platforms. The policy was formulated to protect the local businesses from being undermined by foreign companies. TikTok has much to lose due to the new government policy as the country is its second biggest market after the US.
While Russia’s invasion of Ukraine may have caused significant human and infrastructure losses, Putin’s Z bloggers are profiting from the brutal invasion. According to the BBC report, Russian bloggers who support the invasion are earning large sums of money by documenting Russia’s invasion.
US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy has said that social media poses an immediate threat to the youth of the United States. The new advisory from the US surgeon general wrote that although we lack evidence, the impact of social media on the mental health of children and adolescents is huge.
A new report has shed light on the negative consequences of social media on teens, spending hours on social media every day. A study published in Sleep Health journal revealed that 70% teens in Europe and North America are sleep deprived because of social media.
The whole world turned online when the covid hit, turning everything from businesses, jobs, and education into a completely new dimension. Efficiency is being debated, but the anxiety part of online interaction has never been discovered. Recent study shows that online learning causes social appearance anxiety and reduces learning.
Turkey has restricted the access of twitter for its citizens after the two massive earthquakes that devastated a large portion of Turkey’s infrastructure. The restriction came into play after the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, imposed a national emergency amid chaos. So far 12,000 people have been killed in the two bordering countries, Turkey & Syria.
Yes, Twitter has a rival, and the thing people are appreciating more about it, is its decentralization. The rival microblogging platform competing against twitter is “Nostr”. The platform has been endorsed by co-founder and former CEO of Twitter, Jack Dorsey. The goal is to create an anti-censorship social network that aims to be accessible to everybody around the globe. Nostr is already launched on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.
Twitter lifted its ban on several journalists it recently banned. The Washington Post, CNN, and the New York Times each had reporters who were banned from accessing the platform. The journalists were banned when they shared location data of Elon Musk. The ban was lifted after the second poll Musk conducted. 59% of 3.6 million participants chose to lift the restriction right away.
From starting as a platform criticized for being kid’s oriented platform to becoming a hub for financial advice for the young generation. Ofcom research has revealed that TikTok has become among the top 3 sources of news for teenagers alongside YouTube and Instagram.
It seems like these days, every other social media platform has copied TikTok as it gained more and more popularity in the past few years. But now it seems like TikTok is going to clone one of its rivals, BeReal.
Today, the social network Twitter made the announcement that it will incorporate podcasts into its platform as part of the revamped Spaces tab. Twitter is now formally entering the podcast industry.
In a video he posted hours back, Tom Holland reveals he is parting ways with social media due to mental health problems. Tom Holland, ‘Spider man’, says he is going to delete the Instagram app because it affects his mental health. ‘I’ve taken a break from social media for my mental health because I find Instagram and twitter to be overstimulating, to be overwhelming.’, He says in his latest video on his social media.
