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‘Take a joke’: Social media users blast ‘woke outrage’ after classic UK comedy gets tagged with advisory for ‘outdated’ attitudes

The BBC period comedy, which ran from 1982 to 1992, was centred around the various misadventures of an embattled French…

3 years ago

Snapchat down as frantic users scramble to reboot app & 100,000+ outages reported

A flurry of problems were reported on the site on Thursday, with outage tracker DownDetector showing nearly 130,000 complaints at…

3 years ago

Faith-book? Users blast Facebook’s ‘creepy’ prayer tool after company admits it’s used to create personalized ads

The prayer feature, which was quietly rolled out to US-based Facebook Groups in May, is part of the tech giant’s…

3 years ago

New book ‘An Ugly Truth’ propagates the widespread prejudice that Facebook users are gullible children in need of protection

Whatever your political persuasion, it is difficult not to acknowledge how remarkable the Facebook phenomenon truly is.For example, during the…

3 years ago

Facebook says 85% of US users are pro-vaccine as it rejects Biden’s criticism of ‘killing people’ with Covid-19 misinformation

"The data shows that 85% of Facebook users in the US have been or want to be vaccinated against COVID-19,"…

3 years ago

Trans weightlifters in, cannabis users out… Welcome to the Olympics that deserve a gold medal for woke absurdity

The Olympic organisers have managed to tie themselves up in knots after American sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson tested positive for traces…

3 years ago

‘Are your friends becoming extremists?’ Facebook asks users as it tests bizarre new feature to combat ‘harmful content’

The platform rolled out the new test feature for certain US-based users on Thursday, part of its broader effort to…

3 years ago

Outage: Users report major sites down, including Amazon, Guardian, NYT & Reddit

Some of the internet’s most visited websites, including Amazon, Reddit, Twitch, GitHub, eBay, Etsy, Pinterest, and Stack Overflow, went offline,…

3 years ago

For first time since 2017, Twitter re-opens verification for its best-behaved users

The social media giant announced the news on Thursday, stating over a series of tweets that verification would be immediately…

3 years ago

iPhone users ‘digital slaves’ to ‘overpriced, obsolete’ gadgets & are trapped in Apple’s grasp, says Telegram founder Durov

Pavel Durov, the Russian-born businessman who founded both the Telegram messaging service and the popular VKontakte social network, turned fire…

3 years ago