#social media

By Byron Kaye Since Meta  whistleblower Frances Haugen aired internal emails in 2021 showing the tech giant knew of social media’s mental health impacts on teenagers, world leaders have agonised ...

Australia’s centre-left government on Thursday introduced a bill in parliament that aims to ban social media for children under 16 and proposed fines of up to A$49.5 million ($32 million) for ...

Posting videos and photographs on social media of individuals whose consent has not been obtained is on the rise, triggering the data commissioner to issue warnings. Commissioner for personal data ...

Two men have been injured and the police are looking for three more after a fight broke out in the Paphos village of Kissonerga over a “like” on social media ...

Cyprus ranked second in the EU for social media participation with 83 per cent of the population actively engaged last year, data released by the EU statistical office Eurostat showed on ...

By Stephania Xenophontos The growing intrusion of social media into the political scene has helped to undermine the sustenance of democracy. Although, in essence, politics is a constant competition where ...

By Brendan Canavan A town in the US state of Vermont closed its roads to tourists in September 2023 after a social media tag sparked a swarm of visitors that overwhelmed ...

A 43-year-old man was arrested in the north on Sunday after killing a cat and sharing a grotesque picture of the cat he had just killed to his social media. ...

Cypriots use the social media as the main source of information according to the recent findings of a special Eurobarometer. The most popular source of information in Cyprus was social ...

Two young Nigerian men deported from Cyprus on Monday have caused a social media storm because of a number of unusual plot twists. The two men were reportedly deported from ...

The north’s ‘transport minister’ Erhan Arikli was accused on Tuesday of “thinking he is an influencer” by opposition party CTP Deputy Leader Sila Usar Incirli. Incirli was speaking on ...

The north’s ‘transport minister’ Erhan Arikli has doubled down on controversial comments made on social media website Facebook on Friday, wherein he accused other users of being “mentally ill.” ...

Meta Platforms-ownedMETA.OFacebook and Instagram were down for thousands of users on Friday, according to outage-tracking website Downdetector.com. More than 12,000 users reported having trouble accessing Facebook, while over 6,600 users ...

The Vatican urged bishops and high-profile lay Catholic leaders on Monday to tone down their comments on social media, saying some were causing division and stoking polemics that harmed the ...

About three in five Cypriots use social media to be informed, the highest percentage in the EU, the latest Eurobarometer report released on Wednesday showed. However, they are pessimistic about ...

A man in the north was arrested for calling Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar “crazy” on social media, reports said on Monday. According the Yeni Duzen, police arrested the man, ...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday accused social media platforms and those who advertise on them of being “complicit” in accelerating extremism like antisemitism, racism, anti-Muslim bigotry, xenophobia, homophobia and ...

Iran has curbed access to Meta Platforms’ META.O Instagram and WhatsApp, two of the last remaining social networks in the country, amid protests over the death of a woman ...

Cybercrime police on Friday warned the public about messages that attempt to intercept user’s login credentials on social media, especially on Instagram. Specifically, users receive a message from a ...

Police on Tuesday called on people to be alert after receiving complaints from people that they are being asked to hand over social media passwords, especially on Instagram. According to ...

Almost 80 percent of businesses in Cyprus used social media in 2021 to get their message across, a steep rise on 2015 when the figure was just under 60 per cent, data released by ...

Russia on Friday demanded that Alphabet Inc’s GOOGL.O Google stop spreading what it called threats against Russian citizens on its YouTube video-sharing platform, a move that could presage ...

MPs agreed on Wednesday that legal provisions were necessary to tackle offensive behaviour on social media without however curtailing people’s rights. The House legal affairs committee also discussed a ...

Two men from Limassol, aged 45 and 32 were the first suspects identified in relation to a fake post on social media, the police cybercrime unit said on Saturday. The case is ...