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Twitter says Russia-linked accounts more widespread

San Francisco - Al Maghrib Today

Twitter on Friday said the number of Russia-linked accounts firing off tweets evidently aimed at the US election in 2016 was more widespread than initially determined. The social media company found, and shuttered, an additional 1,062 accounts associated with the Internet Research Agency, considered a "troll farm" connected to the Russian government, Twitter said in an update posted online.Read more

Facebook to let users rank 'trust'

San Francisco - Al Maghrib Today

Facebook announced Friday it will ask its two billion users to rank their trust in news sources, in its latest attempt to combat the spread of misinformation on the social network. The change comes as the online giant seeks to address charges that it has failed -- along with Google and Twitter -- to prevent the spread of bogus news,Read more

minister victim of own social media law

Berlin - Al Maghrib Today

Germany's justice minister has fallen victim to the rules he himself championed against online social media, as one of his tweets was deleted following several complaints, Bild daily reported Monday. The tweet dated back to 2010, when Heiko Maas was not yet minister. In the post, he had called Thilo Sarrazin, a politician who wrote a controversial book on Muslim immigrants,Read more

YouTube star apologizes for viral suicide video

Washington - Al Maghrib Today

Actor and YouTube celebrity Logan Paul apologized for posting a video of a suicide victim in Japan that reportedly was viewed by six million people before being deleted. Paul, who gained notoriety on social media and has a popular video blog or "vlog" on YouTube, filmed the video in Aokigahara, which is known as "the Japanese Suicide Forest" because ofRead more

Suicide victim video by YouTube star sparks anger in Japan

Tokyo - Al Maghrib Today

Japanese social media reacted with a storm of outrage to a video by YouTube star Logan Paul showing a suicide victim in a forest near Mount Fuji, as anger spread over the now-deleted video on Wednesday. Angry comments flooded Twitter after Paul, who gained notoriety on social media and has a popular video blog or "vlog", apologised for the footage,Read more

Lewis Hamilton Instagram account emptied

London - Al Maghrib Today

Lewis Hamilton's Instagram account has been completely emptied as the fall out over his lapse of judgement when recently lambasting a nephew for wearing a princess dress continues. Four-time Formula One world champion Hamilton had shared a video with his 5.7 million followers mocking his nephew sporting a blue and pink dress and waving a pink heart-shaped furry wand overRead more

Satirizing the news a challenge in the age of Trump

New York - Al Maghrib Today

Absurdity and exaggeration, the two key ingredients of political satire, are no longer as effective in the age of Donald Trump and 'fake news' -- something that is forcing comedians and talk show hosts to adapt their craft to get a laugh. News parody outlets such as The Onion, The Flipside, The Borowitz Report and a whole slew of othersRead more

Lewis Hamilton Instagram account emptied

London - Al Maghrib Today

US Library of Congress backtracks

Washington - Al Maghrib Today

The US Library of Congress has scaled back plans to archive every message ever sent on Twitter, sparking debate on the importance of social media in historical records. The library, which is believed to be the largest in the world with a mission of preserving important national and global cultural records, announced this week it would stop collecting the entireRead more

The year the ban on women driving was lifted in KSA

Jeddah - Al Maghrib Today

Sept. 26, 2017, was a historic day in the Kingdom, as on this day the ban on women driving was lifted through a royal decree. “The royal decree will implement the provisions of traffic regulations including the issuance of driving licenses for men and women alike,” the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported. The move was also announced on TV andRead more