Life X stops business activities in Brazil after threats to court Owner Musk slams court over 'unlawful' orders to screen content for disinformation 19 Aug
Life Investor turns to crowdfunding in attempt to save TikTok’s US operation Entrepreneur turns to crowdfunding model despite ByteDance saying video sharing service not for sale 29 May
Life More than a quarter of young people say social media posts influence their politics Survey finds younger generations more interested in engaging with candidates on a more personal level 22 May
Life Dorsey calls for ‘decentralised protocol’ for X Twitter co-founder sounds off on frustrations with competing social networks Bluesky 13 May
Life TikTok CEO defiant as Biden administration signs off on ‘sell or ban’ law CEO promises users the site will not shutter US operation 26 Apr
Radio TalentHub’s Ellie Doyle on more inclusive workplaces Bad news from Tesla, sort of good news from Meta and definitely some bad from Apple 26 Apr
Radio Social media under the microscope and Dimitra’s Jon Trask on blockchain in agriculture Revealing investigations for TikTok and YouTube and how one company is bringing setting up farmers with smart contracts 19 Apr
Life TikTok partners with The Mary Robinson Centre for New Youth Climate Leaders Alliance Programme to run from May until the end of the year 11 Apr
Life Universal Music Group threatens to pull song catalogue from TikTok Social media platform has until midnight to hammer out new deal 31 Jan
Radio Samsung switches it up with the Galaxy S24 Under the hood of the phone that thinks it knows it all 19 Jan
Blogs Zuckerberg/Musk drama more pulling at Threads for attention The clown-like battle of the CEOs is a morbid symptom of the fall of social media, says Jason Walsh 14 Jul
Radio Microsoft Builds up, Meta tears down Big Tech parts with big money and the rest of the week's headlines 26 May
Blogs The best way to resist Internet lies is to refuse to rush to judgement All is not lost in the battle aginst the Internet's sea of biases, blindspots and lies, argues Jason Walsh 19 May
Blogs The view from the social media cheap seats is good, for now TikTok has climbed to unimagined dizzy heights, but there is no reason to think Facebook is in trouble, says Jason Walsh 12 May
Radio Victoria Gascon Perez on technology transfer at UL More trouble in social media, and how the key to creating a great spin-out 14 Apr
Radio Virgin Orbit crashes to Earth How AI is changing networks and the New York Times pushes back against Twitter 11 Apr
Blogs Ireland cannot dance around growing privacy concerns Growing global pressure on the Chinese social media challenger puts Ireland in the spotlight, says Jason Walsh 20 Mar
Radio Threadjacking, portraits too good to be true and UN AI advisor Neil Sahota A master inventor gives his view on artificial intelligence 24 Feb
Blogs Under the influence Numbers of video game streamers cratering since the end of the Covid lockdowns are just one more sign playtime is over, says Jason Walsh 17 Feb
Life Majority of Irish adults wish they spent less time on their devices, says Deloitte survey More than a third of respondents check their phone at least 50 times a day 21 Nov
Trade Elon Musk condemns Twitter’s data security lapses The Tesla owner banks on whistleblower claims to bolster countersuit against social network 19 Sep
Life Instagram slapped with €405m GDPR fine over breaches The social media platform becomes the third Meta-owned company to be hit with privacy penalty 6 Sep
Life Twitter allowed government agents access to user data, says whistleblower Former employee Zatko says the social media platform gave unsupervised access to the company’s systems and user data 24 Aug
Radio Surge pricing and navigating the creative economy with Unify’s Hugh Callaghan Ticketmaster tries it on with the Boss and a new resouce for personal brand management 29 Jul
Life Telegram to roll out premium tier as it tops 700m daily users The company has remained tight-lipped about pricing but is launching a paid-for tier ahead of rivals 21 Jun
Blogs The dinosaurs of social media won’t be replaced by Mastodon The planned mass exodus of Twitter won’t happen, but it will remain a niche social network with a bark bigger than its bite, says Jason Walsh 27 Apr
Life LinkedIn filled with deepfake ‘virtual employees’ Stanford Internet Observatory researchers find more than 1,000 fake profiles on the business site 12 Apr
Life Majority of European purchasing decisions are influenced by social media In Ireland, all generations look to social media ads before making a purchase 7 Apr
Life Jack Dorsey admits regret for helping to decentralise the Internet The former Twitter CEO took to the platform he founded to express regret at the 'damaging' development of the Internet 4 Apr
Radio Universal Robots’ Mark Gray on Industry 4.0 Good news for physical media and why manufacturing will not die after Industry 4.0 20 Mar
Life More than half of Irish people struggle to tell difference between real and fake news Deloitte report finds 18-24-year-olds more likely to trust news from social media platforms 3 Feb
Life TikTok phishing campaign tried to scam over 125 influencer accounts Hackers threatened to delete accounts over copyright violations 19 Nov
Blogs Social media outages a reminder of network fragility Facebook has precious little to do with enterprise IT, but its recent travails are a warning to us all, writes Jason Walsh 20 Oct
Life TikTok removed 81.5m videos in Q2 for violating guidelines The platform identified and removed 94.1% of the content before it was reported 18 Oct
Life Research investigates children’s right to be heard through social and digital media Technological University Dublin for the Ombudsman for Children’s Office look at positive uses for new media 23 Sep
Life Hate speech on the decline on Facebook, company reports Social network claims removal of hate speech content has increased 15-fold 23 Aug
Radio ModelManagement.com’s Andreas von Estorff on fashionable AI Emerging tech for emerging talent, and the week's breaking stories 20 Aug
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