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Questions tagged [social-media]

websites and applications that enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking.

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Now that Facebook is a PLC does this change the privacy of your profile contents

Possible Duplicate: Is the trending Facebook “privacy notice” necessary and/or effective? I have noticed several people posts a boilerplate notice on their Facebook wall as fallows: To Facebook, You are hereby notified that you are strictly…
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Is this story about someone taking revenge on his cheating ex-girlfriend by tattooing excrement on her back true?

This one is making the rounds on the Internet currently and I'm having trouble finding any reliable source. Most people seem to be citing the following unsourced tumblr post Tattoo artist Ryan Fitzgerald from Dayton, OH was hit with a $100,000…
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Does this video depict a neo-nazi leader dying in the middle of a speech?

I'n seeing this video all over twitter, with yesterday supposedly being the 4 year anniversary: "The head of the neo-Nazi nationalists in Lvov Ukraine died in the middle of a speech" https://twitter.com/arieshapira1/status/884747826382725120 It…
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Did a BBC headline originally misspell “analyst” as “analcyst”?

Back in 2017, a number of tweets circulated ostensibly showing a Facebook embed of a BBC headline with an unfortunate typo. An example of such a Tweet: https://twitter.com/ClaireHammond/status/823100058304397312 Many more tweets about this typo can…
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Is this picture from the flooded cave rescue in Thailand?

I came across the following post on Facebook (original text is on Portuguese, translation and emphasis by me): BOYS MEDITATING WHILE WAIT FOR RESCUE INSIDE CAVE IN THAILAND The former Buddhist monk and coach of the twelve boys stuck in a cave in…
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WhatsApp group "Interschools" linked to Daesh?

I recently received this message, apparently a mass text message, from a WhatsApp group: There is a watsup group called' Interschools, if invited, don't join the group, it belongs to Daesh(ISIS). If you join the group you will not be able to exit…
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Is the new "Livr" social network a hoax?

This website claims to be launching a new app in Spring 2014. It is said to be a social network that will only open up if your blood alcohol level is over a certain limit. Inside the app you then have a number of features like drunk dialling people…
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Do we live in a post-truth era?

Apparently Oxford Dictionary's "word of the year" in 2016 was post-truth: ... relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief. Google is…
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Did Frances Coppola tweet about immigration opponents organising the Cologne sex crimes?

Did Frances Coppola, a senior journalist at Forbes, post the following tweet? @shoerster I bet they did. I suspect anti-immigration people of organising the Cologne sex crimes. Fastest way of getting borders closed. The screenshot is from a…
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Do Alex Jones' videos get thousands of views?

Alex Jones, after being kicked off YouTube, has found a new home: Banned.video. And the view-counter over there seems very suspicious: it shows each video having thousands of views. And each time I refresh a video, no matter which one it is, it…
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Does social media have measurable impacts on our brain?

Possible Duplicate: Is Social Networking harmful to mind or body? Many claims are being made on social media affecting everything from attentionspan to ability to comperhend complex ideas. Are there any conclusive evidences for such claims?
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Do Facebook and email have "wide ranging biological effects" and potentially cause cancer?

From the Daily Mirror: Social networking sites such as Facebook could raise your risk of serious health problems by reducing levels of face-to-face contact, a doctor claims. Emailing people rather than meeting up with them may have wide-ranging…
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26 thousand users of Facebook list their location as Greenland

Recently, according to this map 25 680 users of Facebook list their location as Greenland. 26 000 is about half of the number of inhabitants of Greenland. If these data are reliable it says that there are 26 000 computers (or other devices with IP…
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Is the Glitch In the Matrix subreddit on Reddit real stories?

Here is the subreddit reddit.com/r/glitch_in_the_matrix Here is a fairly recent example of a story posted to that subreddit https://www.reddit.com/r/Glitch_in_the_Matrix/comments/qdainf/awoke_in_a_world_where_covid_doesnt_exist/ There also exists a…
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