Social media

Snapchat Spectacles come to the UK

According to Snapchat, Snapchatters spend an average of 25 to 30 minutes a day using the social networking site, sending photos, drawings and videos...

The editorial unit

WhatsApp for votes: A new way to change voter apathy?

Liam Jones

Technology fuels and amplifies people’s morbid attraction to tragedies  

Eoin O’Sullivan-Harris

Should social media companies do more to shut down extremist accounts?

Elizabeth Finney

Social media urged to simplify terms and conditions by UK parliament

Chris Gilroy

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Facebook’s user data government requests up by 24% since 2013

Government requests for Facebook’s user data went up 24 per cent from the last half...

Clarissa Waldron 5th November 2014
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Facebook buys WhatsApp for $19 billion

On Wednesday, Mark Zuckerberg announced the acquiring of WhatsApp in a $19 billion deal. He...

Daisy Field 21st February 2014
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NSPCC finds one in five children have experienced cyber-bullying

An NSPCC survey has found that one in five children have been the victim of...

Simon Wyatt 11th August 2013
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Female journalists targeted on Twitter

Police have confirmed they are investigating bomb threats made against “a number of females on...

Joe Turnbull 1st August 2013
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Facebook introduces the hashtag

The social networking site Facebook has announced plans to introduce clickable hashtags to their users,...

Molly Kersey 14th June 2013