Al Jazeera issues apology after presenter’s “racist comments”
An Al Jazeera presenter is the latest journalist to be criticised for his comments about refugees and those fleeing the war in Ukraine. In a recording of a live broadcast…
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Social media eclipses the mainstream in the struggle for Middle East news
In a digital era, the emergence of new forms of media and extensive sources of information have raised concerns over the credibility and reliability of some media platforms. The increasing…
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Trump is making a comeback with a controversial right-wing social media platform that raised $1 billion
The service is expected to launch in the first quarter of 2022 Last year, Donald Trump teased his social network Truth Social following a permanent social media ban. It’s being…
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Qataris online rally to scrap bank debts
Social media users in Qatar have called for the scrapping of debts in the Gulf country. Citizens in Qatar asked for authorities to relieve the debts of families of the…
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Human trafficking, misinformation, manipulation: The Facebook Papers reveal all
The Facebook Papers is perhaps the biggest crisis the company has faced to date. Facebook’s ongoing scandal further accelerated this week with the release of a collection of stories dubbed…
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How Facebook’s new ‘metaverse’ could change your life forever
Facebook has announced plans to transform from a mere social media platform to an entire digital, virtual world. Facebook is set to rebrand its company as a “metaverse” as early…
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Qatari users receive puzzling Twitter notifications for ‘reporting’ amir’s tweets
Twitter has yet to comment on the matter. Qatari Twitter users have been receiving suspicious notifications from the social media platform claiming that they reported tweets mostly belonging to officials…
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Social media, addiction and mental health
The world’s largest social media platform suffered its most significant outage last week. WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram recently went down due to an unexpected and shocking hours-long global outage. As…
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So what exactly happened at Facebook and why did it take six hours to fix?
Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp went offline for six hours earlier this week. The world’s largest social media platform suffered its most significant outage this week. All Facebook platforms, including Instagram,…
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