The latest online marketing news for 2024.
We will be compiling news from the Digital Marketing world as well as some of the latest Internet News and Trends here.
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- Wed, 18 Sep 2024 15:00:49 +0000: Lucy Blakiston: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet) - Internet | The Guardian
The Shit You Should Care About founder shares what made her obsessed with the internet. A lot of it is very stupid
One thing about me? I’m obsessed with the internet. So obsessed that I built my career off everything I learned as a 16-year-old One Direction fangirl and my current job (running Shit You Should Care About, a media company that helps young people understand the news) totally enables this obsession.
It’s never been the chic parts of the web that caught my attention; I wasn’t watching makeup tutorials like my friends or scrolling through Pinterest to save workout inspo. I loved everything that was stupid about it, from Fred to “Little Monkey At The Apple Store”.
Continue reading... - Wed, 18 Sep 2024 06:30:01 +0000: Character Limit by Kate Conger and Ryan Mac review – Musk’s Twitter takeover - Internet | The Guardian
Behind the scenes of a corporate acquisition that changed social media for ever
There was a time, just three or four years ago, when you could follow the news closely and not hear about Elon Musk for days – or even weeks. He was well on his way to becoming the world’s richest man, and was already a polarising figure, but he was a missable one. Those days are long gone.
Musk is now locked in a fierce public battle with the government and judicial system of Brazil, in the name of free speech, after he refused a court order to block several accounts that were accused of spreading hate speech and disinformation. He is a key figure in the US election race, having been lined up for a job finding savings in government spending should Donald Trump – who he has endorsed – win the presidency. Thanks to his Starlink satellites, he is a critical figure in the balance of power between Russia and Ukraine.
Continue reading... - Wed, 18 Sep 2024 04:00:48 +0000: Warning social media videos could be exploited by scammers to clone voices - Internet | The Guardian
Research released by Starling Bank finds 28% of people have been targeted at least once in the past year
Consumers have been warned that their social media videos could be exploited by scammers to clone their voices with AI and then trick their family and friends out of cash.
Scammers look for videos that have been uploaded online and need only a few seconds of audio to replicate how the target talks. They then call or send voicemails to friends and family, asking them to send money urgently.
Continue reading... - Mon, 16 Sep 2024 07:00:18 +0000: Hunched over my smartphone while my family slept, I knew I had to break my addiction. But how? | Will Clempner - Internet | The Guardian
The modern world just isn’t set up for non-smartphone users, but after a few faltering steps away from mine, my life changed
My 16th birthday was a big deal. Not only was I allowed to throw a party at my dad’s, I was also given a brand new mobile phone. I was giddy. Back in 2006, nothing said liberation to a teenager quite like unlimited texts and a free house.
My friends and I set about creating the sort of chaos only a group of repressed teenagers yet to be fully exposed to the unadulterated excesses of the internet could. Little did we know that those heady days of pumping out noughties R&B from an iPod were to be some of the last of their kind. Just a few months later, Steve Jobs would unveil the first iPhone, altering the way we interact with ourselves and the world around us for ever.
Continue reading... - Sun, 15 Sep 2024 11:00:55 +0000: By showing Musk’s unruly X the red card, Brazil has scored a goal for all democracies | John Naughton - Internet | The Guardian
A Brazilian justice ordering the platform to be blocked until it complies with state laws is a first among non-autocratic nations
At 10 minutes past midnight on 31 August, Elon Musk’s X (nee Twitter) went dark in Brazil, a country of more than 200 million souls, many of them enthusiastic users of online services. The day before, a supreme court justice, Alexandre de Moraes, had done something hitherto unthinkable: ordered the country’s ISPs to block access to the platform, threatened a daily fine of 50,000 Brazilian reais (just under £6,800) for users who bypassed the ban by using virtual private networks (VPNs) and froze the finances of Elon Musk’s Starlink internet service provider in the country. The order would remain in force until the platform complied with the decisions of the supreme federal court, paid fines totalling 18.3m reais (nearly £2.5m) and appointed a representative in Brazil, a legal requirement for foreign companies operating there. Moraes had also instructed Apple and Google to remove the X app and VPN software from their stores, but later reversed that decision, citing concerns about potential “unnecessary” disruptions.
Cue shock, horror, incredulity, outrage and all the reactions in between. Musk – who has been sparring with Moraes for quite a while – tweeted: “Free speech is the bedrock of democracy and an unelected pseudo-judge in Brazil is destroying it for political purposes.” The animosity between the two goes back to 8 January 2023, after the defeat of Jair Bolsonaro in the 2022 Brazilian presidential election, when a mob of his supporters attacked federal government buildings in the capital, Brasília. The mob invaded and caused deliberate damage to the supreme federal court, the national congress and the Planalto presidential palace in an abortive attempt to overthrow the democratically elected president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
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