Loopholes in the rules governing advertising for stimulant medications should be closed, according to a report released Monday by an international think tank. Many telehealth companies have used advertising loopholes to aggressively market stimulant medications to users on social media without the typical disclosures found in pharmaceutical ads, according to the 39-page report by the…
Streaming video content from non-mainstream providers might make you an unwitting target of content piracy. If you get a bargain pricing offer, at first you might not care. But you stand a chance of becoming the victim of scammers and hackers, losing personal data, and having your financial assets stolen. That amounts to a hefty financial…
A technology platform watchdog group reported Monday that it had found more than 100 Facebook groups, some with tens of thousands of members, where business management accounts are bought and sold in violation of the social network’s rules. The accounts can be used to run multiple pages and ad campaigns, creating new opportunities for online…
Hijacking of social media accounts has reached epidemic proportions in the last 12 months, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center. The non-profit, which provides assistance to the victims of identity theft, revealed in its 2022 Consumer Impact Report that social media takeovers have increased by 1,000% during the period. In a survey of consumers,…
A new search engine powered by artificial intelligence and natural language processing is offering an alternative to the lists of web pages making up the results of a typical online search. Called Andi, the search engine combines the use of large language models — think OpenAi’s GPY-3 — and live web data to craft an…
Fake social media accounts are usually associated with bot networks, but some research released Tuesday revealed many social media users are creating their own fake accounts for a variety of reasons. One in three U.S. social media users has multiple accounts on the social media platforms that they use, according to a survey of 1,500…
Less than 1% of Netflix’s 221 million subscribers are playing the service’s games each day, according to a report from CNBC. Based on statistics from Apptopia, the report revealed that there have been 23.3 million global downloads of Netflix’s mobile games and an average of 1.7 million subscribers are engaging with the games daily. When…
Meta took a step Tuesday toward abandoning its policy of removing misinformation about Covid from its platforms. The company, which owns Facebook and Instagram, is asking its Oversight Board for an advisory opinion on whether measures taken to squash dangerous Covid-19 misinformation should continue or be modified. In an online posting, Meta’s president for global…
A lawsuit against the administrators of more than 10,000 Facebook groups alleged to be part of a broker network for churning out fake product reviews was filed Tuesday by Amazon. In its lawsuit, Amazon alleges the administrators have attempted to orchestrate the placement of bogus reviews on Amazon in exchange for money or free products….
For years, U.S. broadband has received a bad rap by comparing it to the European market. That rap — and the comparison it’s founded on — is dubious, according to a report released Monday by a D.C. tech think tank. Comparisons between U.S. and European broadband prices abound, but their respective markets are built on…
