WhatsApp privacy

WhatsApp announced that it was planning to provide information about its users for Facebook’s targeted advertising unless users.

After President Donald Trump was banned from Twitter and than from almost all social media and platforms and Parler was closed Trump supporters moved massively to Telegram.

More than 100,000 users installed Signal across the app stores of Apple and Google in the last two days after it was endorsed by Elon Musk.

The Social Dilemma on Netflix

In August 2020, a documentary was published on Netflix about how social media manipulates the human mind. High-profile managers and developers of companies such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc. testify in it. Payments for ads on social media are directly proportional to the time that potential customers spend on sites promoting their products.

And so social media is developing increasingly sophisticated algorithms to “hack” the human mind to get its attention and addiction. They use the latest machine learning methods and a huge amount of collected user data. Naturally, they resort to publishing increasingly radical contributions that attract the most attention.

The paradox is that Netflix itself uses these methods as well.

Travelpod closing

Travelpod on whose Web sites millions of people published their travel experiences, ended its activities on July 19, 2017 without compensation. Users were given a month to download their data to a ZIP file. One of the former users offers help with archiving at http://www.travelark.org/.