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Social media platforms Facebook and Twitter have warned Ukrainian users they may be vulnerable to hacking, after Ukraine experienced a series of Social media platforms Facebook and Twitter have warned Ukrainian users they may be vulnerable to hacking, after Ukraine experienced a series of cyberattacks in the wake of Russia’s invasion.

Facebook Locked Profile is a privacy safety feature that allows users to secure their personal information from others. Once a user locks his/her profile on Facebook, details like photos, posts, stories can only be seen with their friends only. In addition, any posts they have shared in the past, will automatically be changed to Friends-only.

Facebook owner Meta Platforms has set up a special operations center to monitor the conflict in Ukraine, and it launched a feature so users in the country can lock their social media profiles for security, a company official said in Twitter posts on Thursday.

Meta Platforms Inc, established a special operations centre to monitor the conflict in Ukraine, and it has launched a feature that allows…

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Facebook and Twitter have posted out details on how users in Ukraine can secure their accounts on social media platforms with fears of disinformation in light of the ongoing Russian invasion.

Facebook''s security team said that the feature will protect users from having their pictures downloaded by non-friends on the platform.

It’s the Goliath of social media networks, the go-to communication tool of the modern age, but privacy concerns mean Facebook also causes considerable unease – it collects huge quantities of data on its users and unashamedly monetises their identities.

The team of developers that created Facebook’s (Meta) Diem cryptocurrency has turned their attention to a new blockchain that aims to rival Ethereum.

Housing Market Insanity Hits The Suburbs As Million-Dollar Listings Disappear As investors like BlackRock help drive America''s ''Housing Bubble 2.0'' to increasingly absurd proportions, Americans are growing surprisingly accustomed to the fact that homes costing $1 million or less are growing increasingly hard to find in a growing number of urban locales. As we reported earlier this month , the number of cities where the price of an average home has topped $1 million has more than doubled over the last five years. The dynamic is easy enough to understand: families seeking more space and cheaper prices flee from primary cities to secondary cities - or find a home in a comfortable nearby suburb. And because of it, more in-demand suburbs surrounding cities like Boston, New York City, Philadelpha or - on the West Coast - Seattle and Spokane, Washington, are seeing the sub-$1 million homes disappear at a disturbing pace. In a recent piece on the out-of-control American housing market, which of course will ultimately leave families holding the bag along with perhaps some investors, Bloomberg offered Wellesley, Mass., which once played host to Hillary Clinton during her college days.

Twitter, Instagram and Facebook are quiet about whether the Kremlin and high-ranking Russian officials who are using the platform to give updates about Russia''s advance on Ukraine will continue to have unfettered access to their accounts.

Anonymous Instagram, Twitter and Facebook users to face limits on who they can contact under proposal in online safety bill Social media users could be cut off from other accounts on platforms such as Twitter if they do not sign up for ID verification, under government proposals to tackle anonymous trolls. Popular services including Twitter, Facebook and Instagram will be required to give users the option to opt in or opt out from receiving messages, replies and content from unverified or anonymous accounts. Verified users could also block unverified or anonymous accounts from seeing their content under the opt in/opt out proposals. Continue reading…

Even technically sophisticated friends are currently getting “hacked” on Facebook — here’s how to avoid it, and how to make sure your hacked account is fully recovered. Usually, accounts are “hacked” because someone somehow gets a hold of your password. That’s bad for Facebook in particular, because people often use Facebook to log into other […]

Praise Of Ukrainian Neo-Nazi Battalion Given Green Light By Facebook: Intercept Facebook is now allowing its billions of users to praise a Ukrainian neo-Nazi military unit called the Azov Battalion, after the social media giant previously banned the group from free discussion under the company''s Dangerous Individuals and Organizations policy, The Intercept ''s Sam Biddle reports. When I say "temporarily," I should have said "indefinitely"—there''s no expiration date for this policy change. FB spokesperson told me "For the time being" — Sam Biddle (@samfbiddle) February 24, 2022 According to Biddle, the Azov regiment - which functions as an armed wing of the broader Ukrainian white nationalist Azov movement - is classified as a "Tier 1" dangerous organization under FB policy, alongside the likes of ISIS and the KKK. It began as a volunteer anti-Russia militia before officially joining the Ukrainian National Guard in 2014 , and is known for its hardcore ultranationalist views and neo-Nazi ideology.

In one of the most volatile episodes in stock market history, investors early last year took the shares of a company called GameStop ( GME ) on a wild ride that few would have expected for a business that''s mostly a brick-and-mortar antique, the gaming version of a chain of video stores. Its shares went on an adventure that echoed the characteristics of the video games on its shelves: fantasy, violence and a romantic quest for justice and vengeance. SEE MORE The 12 Best Tech Stocks to Buy for 2022 In real life, however, GameStop has had a lousy year, losing money once again. But the rest of the gaming sector has taken up the mantle. It''s booming, becoming the backbone of the metaverse , a three-dimensional online environment that is likely the "next big thing" in consumer technology. In 2020, partly because the pandemic kept Americans indoors, gaming revenues exceeded those of movies and sports events combined. Global gaming sales in 2021 are estimated at $178 billion and projected to rise to $269 billion by 2025.