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World of Warcraft's Dragonflight expansion will receive two major content updates in 2023, Blizzard has announced, with four minor updates also planned to roll out over the course of the next year.The two major updates will include everything players expect from a big content update: a new raid, zone, and seasonal rewards. The minor updates will look to include more story content, evergreen events, updates to old game systems, and more opportunities to implement feedback from the community, according to a…

Epic Games is the company behind the popular game Fortnite and the company that would like to host its own app store on iPhone and charge players through its own payment system. Epic intentionally caused Apple to ban Fortnite from iPhone so it could the Cupertino-based giant, but it lost that case. And now, Epic Games will have to pay two record fines totaling a combined $520 million after settling with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Epic will pay $275 million for violating a children’s privacy law (COPPA)…

Amazon Prime Gaming for PC — which provides users access to various free PC games every month — has officially been launched in India. The subscription-based gaming service comes bundled with the Amazon Prime plan. For the month of December, Prime Gaming allows users to access eight game titles including Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, Banners of Ruin, Doors: Paradox, and Quake among others in India. Prime members in the country will also get in-game content for titles such as Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0, FIFA 23, League of…

Elon Musk’s ever-changing Twitter Inc. content policies have attracted the ire of regulators and free-speech advocates. Elon Musk's ever-changing Twitter Inc. content policies, applied haphazardly to justify banning the accounts of a number of prominent journalists who cover him, have attracted the ire of regulators and free-speech advocates. The moves have also given the people who make the most content for the social network a reason to flee, which could be bad for business. On Twitter, a small minority of users…

Facebook is the most-used social media platform in the world. It boasts 2.96 billion monthly active users. Most likely, you’re on Facebook and use it often. But is your business on Facebook? Not only that, is your business on Facebook and using a content marketing strategy? If your audience hangs out on the social media giant, you should answer “yes” to all of the above. Because just existing on Facebook isn’t enough.  If you want to tap into the potential reach you can…

Photo: Darren McCollester (Getty Images)Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) proposed a bill on Tuesday that, if passed, would redefine what obscenity means nationwide, which could effectively decimate the porn industry. The Utah Republican filed the Interstate Obscenity Definition Act (IODA) based on the Communications Act of 1934, and stated in the IODAthat “obscenity is not protected speech under the First Amendment and is prohibited from interstate or foreign transmission under U.S. law.”He continued, “But obscenity is difficult to…

Australian e-Safety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant compelled businesses ranging from Meta Inc.-owned Facebook to Microsoft Corp.’s Skype to disclose how they tackle the issue. Global technology giants are doing too little to remove video and images of child sexual exploitation from their own digital platforms, according to an Australian government report.Using new legislation, Australian e-Safety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant compelled businesses ranging from Meta Inc.-owned Facebook to Microsoft Corp.'s Skype to…

Many companies have well realized that creating valuable content is an excellent way to acquire new customers and retain them over time. However, creating content takes time and money and any business, especially those operating on a tight budget, has limits to what it can spend on it. The good news is that it is possible to build a content production ‘factory’, even if the team is small and the budget is limited.Build the Contact Production Factory as a System Building a content 'factory' does not necessarily require a…

Image: mundissima (Shutterstock)New research finds Russian groups targeted former President Donald Trump’s social media platform Truth Social during the 2022 midterm elections. The report, conducted by the Stanford Internet Observatory and Graphika, found that Russian groups have moved on from Facebook and Twitter, where they are largely blocked, to targeting conservative-based social media platforms including Gab, Gettr, Parler, in addition to Truth Social.The recent report uncovered the Kremlin’s interference in social…

PTI New Delhi, December 14Social media major Meta’s oversight board has upheld company’s decision to restore a video of sexual assault allegedly on a tribal woman by a group of men on Instagram citing newsworthiness in the content, the board said on Wednesday.In March 2022, an Instagram account describing itself as a platform for Dalit perspectives posted a video from India showing a woman being assaulted by a group of men.Sharing…