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Social Media Misinformation About Covid-19 Remains on the Rise as Vaccines Start Circulating in The UK

Social Media Misinformation About Covid-19 Remains on the Rise as Vaccines Start Circulating in The UK

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The first viable Covid-19 vaccine was released recently by Pfizer and BioNtech. The product is already in circulation in the United Kingdom but there are many public health concerns about the safety of the vaccine. In the United Kingdom, a 90-year-old woman became the first person to be vaccinated. Despite the reports from the UK, some claim that the woman doesn't exist. Social Media Continues to Promote Misinformation While there is a lot of conflicting information about the vaccine, the most predominant is being championed by anti-vaxxers. They say that there is no vaccine and it is all just a scheme by Bill Gates to implant microchips in people around the world. As absurd as this sounds, it's been getting a lot of attention on social media. The same fraction of people claims that M...
Ongoing Efforts by Facebook to Remove COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation

Ongoing Efforts by Facebook to Remove COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation

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There has been NEWS and, of course, speculations ongoing about the shipment of COVID-19 vaccines. In a recent post, Facebook has announced it will be intensifying its efforts to remove/block any misinformation on COVID-19 vaccines. According to Facebook’s report, Facebook will remove any posts/comments with misleading information. False claims like: COVID-19 vaccines have any ingredient that is not on the official vaccine ingredient list • Any conspiracy theories on COVID-19 vaccines • Baseless claims about possible risks/hazards Commenting on the projected hazard to come in the long-term alongside the COVID-19 pandemic, US infectious-disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci forewarned of a long battle against the COVID-19 pandemic in America. According to him, the surge in anti-science bia...
4 Types of Content and 4 Reasons to use Content Marketing in 2021

4 Types of Content and 4 Reasons to use Content Marketing in 2021

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In this growing technology world, marketers are planning to create diverse strategies to maintain connections with customers, mains sponsors, and the audience. For this purpose, you are required to have good quality content as well as product strategies for interacting with the audience. Several people are investing in your business to gain profit, increase their website leads, traffic on their social platforms. 53% of marketers assume that blogs are more effective when it comes to inbound marketing. For making quality content you must work on your research, selection of the topics as well as providing facts and statistics to the readers to believe and plan according to it.  When you are working for content, you must look for desired topics, topics that are suggested to you by the audienc...
Microsoft Teams Set to Cut off Internet Explorer Along with Millions of Users Who Depend on their Products and Services

Microsoft Teams Set to Cut off Internet Explorer Along with Millions of Users Who Depend on their Products and Services

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Long before the Covid-19 pandemic, Microsoft Teams has been one of the most reliable web conferencing platforms in the world. Unfortunately, Microsoft has discontinued compatibility for Internet Explorer. Starting from today, Explorer users will be unable to use Microsoft Teams starting from today, November 30, 2020. Each time users want to use Ms. Teams; they will have to connect from MS Edge. Microsoft Cuts Off Internet Explorer Giving Edge More Users Earlier this year, Microsoft announced that they would want to push more users to the MS Edge platform from Internet Explorer 11. This is going to be a big blow to Internet Explorer 11 as it recently lost a significant portion of its user base after losing access to Microsoft 365. Microsoft says that they do not intend to remove Internet ...
People Under 17 May be Banned from Using Social Media in Indonesia

People Under 17 May be Banned from Using Social Media in Indonesia

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Social media has served as a tool to build young minds but it has also acted as a weapon to destroy. Over the years, millions of people from around the world have created a new reality on social media. The regulatory bodies in Indonesia are considering increasing the age limit of joining social media from 13 to 17. If this rule is put in place, it will become illegal for any social network to allow a teenager who is below 17 years to register. Joining Social Media When You're Below 17 Might Become Illegal Typically, the minimum age bracket for joining sites like Facebook and Twitter is 13. As long as you're up to 13 years of age, you can join these and many other social sites without stress. Lawmakers in Indonesia don't agree with this. They believe that the lack of regulation on social ...
Top Skill to Learn During Covid 19

Top Skill to Learn During Covid 19

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Over the last eleven months, the Covid-19 pandemic has cost millions their sources of income. Enterprises that don't provide essential services have been forced to shut down or downsize significantly just to stay afloat. As the demand for some jobs dropped, people around the world have been presented with a rare opportunity to develop any of the top skills to learn during Covid 19. There has been a significant surge in the demand for some other remote skills. So, as you wait for things to stabilize, you should learn some in-demand skills that will remain in demand in a post-covid 19 world. Workers are already adjusting to the hybrid office workspace. Research published on Slack shows that 72% of office workers who have been forced to work from home prefer their current working conditions....
Instagram Adds New Features For Users Including Shop Tabs and Reels

Instagram Adds New Features For Users Including Shop Tabs and Reels

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Instagram has over one billion monthly active users. Out of this number, 89% comes from people outside the United States and 500 million people upload Instagram stories daily. It is one of the fastest-growing social media platforms in the world and it continues to launch new features to satisfy user needs. Instagram Adds New Reels and Shop Tabs Instagram has become a hub for small, medium, and even large scale businesses from across the globe. The company has decided to solidify its hold in the eCommerce sector by adding a shop tab and reels for IG shoppers. They also added a lower functions bar. Part of the announcement was as follows; "At Instagram, our focus has always been on young people and creators because they’re trendsetters. Change is happening quickly right now, including h...