Facebook has shut down a raft of right-wing populist accounts accused of spreading fake news to millions ahead of the EU elections this week. The Daily Mail reports that social media giant acted last week after being tipped off by ...
* Malaysian police are investigating the case of a teenager believed to have jumped to her death after asking her social media followers to vote on whether she should kill herself. The 16-year-old girl, who was not named, had run ...
Facebook does not know how many under-13s or sex offenders in the UK use its platforms, a senior executive has said at the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse. Answering a question about safety checks carried out on new accounts, ...
* The travel website TripAdvisor has introduced a new review feature to provide travellers with access to safety information about the businesses it promotes, the company has announced. TripAdvisor, which has 456m visitors a month, allows users to search for ...
Vodacom CEO Shameel Joosub has stressed the need for spectrum allocation in South Africa, arguing that it is necessary for the digital evolution of the country. Speaking in an interview with MyBroadband, Joosub said that government’s plan to enable the ...
The US Government has refused to sign a declaration with more than a dozen other countries pledging to stamp out terrorist and extremist content from appearing online. According to a report in The Daily Telegraph, the White House has claimed ...
The hacking of WhatsApp last week has brought digital safety into sharp focus. As previously reported in eLaw & Management, it was allegedly carried out by an Israeli spyware company, the NSO Group. ‘The hack was based on software created ...
Beijing has broadened its block of online encyclopedia Wikipedia to include all language editions, an Internet censorship research group reported just weeks ahead of China's most politically explosive anniversary. A report on the News24 site notes that the Open Observatory ...
The Russian founder of popular messaging app Telegram has warned that WhatsApp, the world’s top messaging app, will continue to be open to surveillance after the Facebook-owned platform had to tell users that their phones could be infected with spyware. ...
An analysis of Mitspa Onyoka's online history is one of the outstanding elements in the investigation into the murder of Irish aid worker John Curran. Onyoka allegedly murdered Curran in his Cape Town flat in November, reports TimesLIVE. Onyoka was ...
Boeing has finished the development of a software fix to its troubled 737 Max. The plane maker said in a statement it has flown the aircraft with the updated software on 207 flights for more than 360 hours. CNN reports ...
Media groups are challenging a decision by the Ugandan Communication Commission to remove dozens of senior journalists from their news management roles over coverage of the arrest of lawmaker Bobi Wine. As previously reported in Legalbrief Today, the commission last ...
Media groups are challenging a decision by the Ugandan Communication Commission to remove dozens of senior journalists from their news management roles over coverage of the arrest of lawmaker Bobi Wine. As previously reported in Legalbrief Today, the commission last ...