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Former US President Donald Trump's Truth Social app will launch on a web browser at the end of May, Chief Executive Devin Nunes said on Monday.In a post on the platform, Nunes also said Truth Social has not yet been approved for launch in the Google Play store for Android devices."End of May we will launch PWA (Web Browser) this will allow access from any device," Nunes wrote. "After that we will launch an Android App... pending approval from Google!”Availability in the Google Play and Apple App stores is key to the app's…

Social platforms have learned to remove violent videos of extremist shootings more quickly over the past few years. It's just not clear they're moving quickly enough.Police say that when a white gunman killed 10 people and wounded three others — most of them Black — in a “racially motivated violent extremist” shooting in Buffalo Saturday, he livestreamed the attack to the gaming platform Twitch, which is owned by Amazon. It didn't stay there long; a Twitch spokesperson said it removed the video in less than two…

The researchers asked study participants to take a week-long break from social media.Results of a study that asked participants to take a week-long break from social media find positive effects for wellbeing, depression and anxiety.According to the authors of a new study, asking individuals to cease using social media for one week might result in substantial improvements in their well-being, depression, and anxiety, and could be recommended as a way to help people manage their mental health in the future.A team of…

In March 2019, before a gunman murdered 51 people at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, he went live on Facebook to broadcast his attack. In October of that year, a man in Germany broadcast his own mass shooting live on Twitch, the Amazon-owned livestreaming site popular with gamers. On Saturday, a gunman in Buffalo, New York, mounted a camera to his helmet and livestreamed on Twitch as he killed 10 people and injured three more at a grocery store in what authorities said was a racist attack. In a manifesto posted…

Last week’s intermission in the Johnny Depp–Amber Heard defamation case, which will resume on Monday, temporarily stopped a deluge of disturbing testimony and slowed the PR war between the two once-married actors, but the parallel court of public opinion has barely paused its deliberations on a case being eagerly followed around the world.Part two of the Depp v Heard case in Fairfax, Virginia, will see Heard conclude her testimony, and then come under cross-examination by Depp’s legal team, before her attorneys call…

Miami-based Ryder System Inc. said in a statement it will ‘carefully review and evaluate the indication of interest’ to determine what is in the best interest of its shareholders. Photo: Ryder System…

Lobbying groups representing Facebook, Twitter, Google and other tech companies filed an emergency request with the US Supreme Court on Friday, seeking to block a Texas law that prohibits large social media platforms from banning users based on their political views.The Texas law went into effect on Wednesday when the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals granted the state's request for a stay of a district judge's injunction blocking the law.The law forbids social media companies with more than 50 million active users per…

Tech industry trade organizations NetChoice and the Computer Communications Industry Association have appealed directly to the Supreme Court for an emergency stay of the Texas social media law known as HB 20. The law, which creates liability for content moderation decisions that are based on “the viewpoint of the user or another person,” could make it impossible to enforce bans on hate speech — or to even moderate platforms at all. HB 20 was successfully blocked in court late last year, and then unblocked by an appeals…

Our updates on social media gives world an insight into our personality in general and our needs and perspectives on those issues in particular. But what if there's also a way to judge how we were feeling exactly at the time we shared an image, a video or any other post. To be able to understand this, researchers at the Open University of Catalonia in Spain have developed an algorithm that they claim can identify people who are unhappy by screening the posts they share on social media. The researchers believe this tool…

Social media companies including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and TikTok must act now to blunt the effect of false information - including Donald Trump's "Big Lie" that his 2020 defeat was the result of fraud - in this year's US midterm congressional elections, rights groups said on Thursday.Social media platforms backed away from policies designed to fight election disinformation after the 2020 presidential race won by US Democratic President Joe Biden, more than 100 advocacy groups, led by Common Cause, said in a letter…