Sayantani Mitra gets “a thrill” from finding good second-hand stuff online Sayantani Mitra say she now scrolls through listings on Facebook Marketplace “for hours”. A 28-year-old from Oxford, prior to the pandemic she “would buy everything from charity shops, whether that’s furniture, clothes, or bags and accessories”. But with lockdowns […]
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Health ads in users’ customized online sites may evoke negative reactions
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Tweaking the look of a social media profile may subtly alter a person’s reaction to the health messages that appear on that site, according to researchers. They add that these reactions could influence whether the users heed the advice of those messages. In a study, the […]
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Health ads in users’ customized online sites may evoke negative reactions
Newswise — UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Tweaking the look of a social media profile may subtly alter a person’s reaction to the health messages that appear on that site, according to researchers. They add that these reactions could influence whether the users heed the advice of those messages. In a […]
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Claudia Conway supporters call for Twitter users to report her case to child abuse hotline after ‘nude photo leak’
CLAUDIA Conway’s supporters have urged Twitter users to report her case to a child abuse hotline after she initially accused her mother Kellyanne of posting a nude photo of her online. The former Trump aide’s 16-year-old daughter has since rowed back from her allegations and begged followers not to contact […]
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Real Estate App Casa Blanca Asks Users to Swipe Right to Pick a Home
You may have done this to find a date. Now, a new app is asking users to swipe right to choose their next home. The app, called Casa Blanca, has a swipe interface in the style of dating apps to find and buy real estate in New York. Users list […]
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Online Platforms Ask Users to Be Polite With ‘Nudges’
Can people really be deterred from posting hateful messages online just by asking them not to? A growing number of companies hope so as they try “nudge” technology to keep user behavior civil on the internet. Comment warnings, or behavioral nudges, are pop-up boxes that appear when people use online […]
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ByteDance’s Chinese version of TikTok hits 600 million daily users
By Yingzhi Yang and Brenda Goh BEIJING (Reuters) – Douyin, the Chinese version of short video app TikTok, hit 600 million daily active users in August, an executive with parent company ByteDance said on Tuesday, a 50% jump since the start of the year. Users in China are not able […]