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Your Ultimate Guide to Mobile Live-Streaming

by Hayley Tsukayama | Mar 7, 2017 | Technology

Live-streaming has become the thing to do on social media, whether you’re using video to share your thoughts with friends or the entire world. You’ve probably seen some notifications that a friend is live-streaming — or watched the live stream itself on...

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How to Omit Inappropriate Content from YouTube?

by Khaldoun Ghassan Said | Sep 22, 2016 | Technology

Jeddah-While browsing YouTube’s offers, people may find inappropriate content like porn movies or videos that incite violence and hatred. However, the website visitors can now report inappropriate content with the launch of “YouTube Community” feature by Google. The...

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EU, Social Media Firms to Combat Hate Speech

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | May 31, 2016 | Technology

The European Union’s executive arm said on Tuesday it has reached an agreement with some of the world’s biggest social media firms to combat the spread of hate speech online through a code of conduct. Under the terms of the code, the firms, which include...

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The ‘Journalism and Twitter’ Controversy

by Salman Al-dossary | May 25, 2016 | Opinion

It is an argument never appeased nor settled, and perhaps it would take mankind long before breaking free from this everlasting controversy. Press on one side of the scale and social media weighing up the other; as if those two mediums were created to remain...

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YouTube Taking Down Millions of Terrorist Videos

by Mohammed Ali Saleh | May 17, 2016 | World

Washington- At a time when the bureaucracy of the U.S. government is slow in the internet war against ISIS, web giants, mainly Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, are shutting down thousands of terrorist accounts on a daily basis. U.S. experts had different viewpoints on...