US President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order Thursday after threatening to shutter social media platforms following Twitter’s move to label two of his tweets misleading. After long resisting calls to censure Trump over his truth-defying posts, Twitter on Tuesday accused the president for the first time of making false claims. Trump […]Read More
Nearly all applicants for US visas will have to submit their social media details under newly adopted rules. The State Department regulations say people will have to submit social media names and five years’ worth of email addresses and phone numbers. When proposed last year, authorities estimated the proposal would affect 14.7 million people annually. […]Read More
Sri Lanka’s president has lifted a nationwide ban on social media sites, a day after he used emergency powers to ban veils worn by some Muslim women as part of a security clampdown following Easter suicide bomb attacks. President Maithripala Sirisena on Tuesday ended the blocking of Facebook, WhatsApp, YouTube and other popular sites, but […]Read More
For improved Internet activities and the provision of adequate security both on and off line, government must engage its citizens. This move is expected to bring sanity to the online space and bring the populace closer to the government. The President, Internet Society, Nigeria Chapter, Dewole Ajao, who made this call, yesterday at the fourth-day […]Read More
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, Communications Minister, Adebayo Shittu and over 1,000 stakeholders will tomorrow discuss the outlook of social media in Nigeria, particularly its risks and gains. Special Assistant (New Media) to the Minister of Communications, Oluwakemi Ann-Melody Areola, in Abuja yesterday said that the discussion would specifically focus on the importance of social media, […]Read More
A support group for PDP Presidential Candidate Atiku Abubakar, Good Friends Network for Atiku has challenged all support groups to mobilize to the grassroots rather than focusing on social media alone. Mr Nwafor Chigbo, the convener of the group gave the charge when the group Hajiya Titi Abubakar, wife of the PDP Presidential Candidate. Mr […]Read More
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